Progress on Zainal's dream house was slow, but steady. - Photos: Zainal Abidin Musa
He pauses halfway up the winding brick steps, his gaze locked on the wooden house below, its clay roof tiles and timber beams bathed in the late afternoon light. A quiet satisfaction softens his face.
With a sigh – part relief, part disbelief – 65-year-old Zainal Abidin Musa murmurs, “I never thought it would actually come true.”
