Khun Od and Khun Wanida Toekao
Model WA-141

The Longer You Live In The Happier You Will Be

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          No matter how you, the readers, define the meaning of ‘home’, but for the ‘Toekao” family a home is the happiest place they acquire from their diligence and saving. Why did they think like this, the answer is as follow.

         Because of their striving for success and being uncompromising for life, the couple gradually crossed the poverty by their diligence, patience and saving. They also crossed they ignorance by struggling to learn because they knew that their social capital war rather low, not as much as other families. But Khun Od, the Dirctor of Pastoral Council,S aint Paolo Kaengkrao, and Khun Wanida Toekao still believed that endeavour through occupation would help make life better.

          More than 10 years ago when Khun Wanida began her own business with a small clothes shop, a vendor while Khun Od worked as a clockmaker. Time passed did not only make them grow older but they also gained experiences for their life. They still remembered the days of difficulties as a lesson to be learned. They could be a good model for those who thought they were the disadvantaged.

 
  
 

         “When we haven’t got children we hurried to seek and save, big or small amount because we don’t inherit anything from our family. We
have to be more diligent than others.” Khun Wanida told us the reason they had to work hard.

        She didn’t just save but when she got much money enough she invested. She decided to rent a 4 meters wide building and opened a boutique shop. Not long from that time, she could buy a new building just opposite her shop and opened an electrical device shop and then s small gold shop named ‘Num Nung Jawaraj.’
 
  
 
          “ I knew nothing about gold” Khun Wanida admitted and gave us the answer to our coming question.”My cousin owned a gold shop so I asked him to teach me how to differentiate genuine and fake gold and how to trade though I didn’t have much capital at that time. I have to divide the shop into 2 sections, one for a clothes shop and another for a gold shop. Our newly opened gold shop has only about 100 hundred baht weight gold. It is considered a very small gold shop and I wonder how to arrange the gold in the cupboard so they will look as if the cupboard is full of gold. One year passed and we gain more experience and some profit so we decide to open only a gold shop in the building.”

 
  

          It has been 23 years for Khun Od and Khun Wanida Toekao to think and work together and saved until they went from poverty to wealthy. They changed from the owner of 8 meters wide building to the owner of 3 rais a ngans plot of land with a big house which they are willing to pay almost 10 million baht for the happiness of 5 Toekao family members.
 
         “ Getting old, we feel fatigue and want to relax so we think that our old home is too narrow. Furthermore, our children are growing up. It is the time we have to build a new house to be a place to relax our bodies and minds of our family members and our best friends.” Khun Wanida told the background of the big house, contemporary style and then added that

          “ My husband and I have one thing in common that is when we have to choose or do something we will choose or do the best. That is why we go and talk with Khon Kaen Home Builder Co., Ltd under the supervision of PD HOUSE Corporation CO., Ltd for almost 10 times. We get information, check the reliabilities of the builder companies and talk with those who have their houses built by home builder companies. It is not because we don’t believe the sales person but to build a house with such a large amount of money we have to be sure that the builder company doesn’t leave the construction unfinished and keep along with us until the construction completed.

          Checking until they felt sure, Khun Od and Khun Wanida decided to have KHon Kaen Home Builder CO., Ltd build their house. Though they had to wait but it is worth waiting. The big contemporary style house has 5 bedrooms,4 on the second floor and 1 on the first floor, all with bathroom.  the first floor there are also a kitchen, a living room and an additional bathroom.

          “ When we  stay in our former house (in the market place) we go to bed late and get up late. When we move in here we get up early because we want to spend most of the time in the house.” We believe that the last sentence of Khun Wanida Toekao will make those who are far away from home want to go back home and meet someone there.
 
  • Topic : Chaweng Chueawong
  • Photo : Yutthana Singsai
  • Client : Khun Od and Khun Wanida Toekao
  • Model : WA-141
  • Award : -
  • Design : PD House International Co.,Ltd.
  • Construction : PD House Khonkaen