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As Yukiko has recently posted an entry on Facebook with the same title, I guess I'll write something about it as well. So, I once wanted to be a farmer - but seriously, who hasn't dreamed of being a farmer at some point in their lives? Also, my other childhood dreams include going to MIT (I will), writing a book for children, being a journalist, being a photographer, creating Rockman.EXE typed network/navigation/PETs. But let's not worry about them for now.

This story starts with Masakazu, Yukiko's brother. Masakazu-kun loved chickens. Once upon some recent time, he persistently asked for an egg from a farmer and eventually got it. He built some kind of egg-hatching machinery; and after a while a chicken was born. Then, two chickens. Then lots of them. They followed Masakazu-kun everywhere he went, and if they didn't see him they would go panic.

Later he moved to New Zealand, and one day his mom in Japan told him that all his chickens had been eaten by a fox. He cried, suffered a lot, and I'm not quite sure, maybe he still does.

This reminded me that I once had some chickens too, although I can't remember what happened to them. I'm not that concerned about chickens though - except that I often mistake them for "kitchens", which caused quite some problems when studying "Kitchen" by Banana Yoshimoto for my IB English A1 class. Nevertheless, Yukiko pointed out that although Masakazu and I didn't have the same level of interest for that little furry thing, we both wanted to raise our own animals and plant our own crops. You know that game series, Harvest Moon? I love it, especially FoMT and MFoMT. "Who knows," I told her, "the most unlikely things can come true."

"Let's build a farm together!"

"Cool! Let's start now!"

And we're off to making a plan. It's exciting, it's neat, it's weird. And it will come true.