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what if you were made to choose between your daughter and your mother...who would you choose?
the one who took great pains and raised you to be who you are today?
or the one who will be your future joy and pride?
tough choice huh?
i look at my mother...having to always balance her mum and us...it's quite scary, tedious, hair-splitting.
i don't like my scheming and demanding grandmother. so i'll probably choose none.
right now, my mum is yelling into the phone telling that witch in hokkien that i didn't tell her[my mum] that she[my grandmother] called. coz my mum was downstairs burning incense paper when that witch called. so i was supposed to ask mum to call the witch back.
turned out i forgot and only told her like an hour and a half later.
now mum made the call, the daily nightly call.
and so she's shouting and yelling.
turned out the witch's washing machine had some technical problem that caused it to not dispense water. so she wanted to call my mum up to ask her what to do[the witch received no education before]. in the end, she solved it by re-washing the batch of clothes, hence wasting water thus her water bill will rocket.
so my mum came into my room and said: "next time ah ma calls you must tell me." in a very grave manner. i mean who can blame her after a deafening conversation, no shouting competition, over the phone with the witch?
god help me.
they always say service those around you for a start, before you start servicing the outside community.
i've wanted to go to africa or china to help the poor.
however, if you ask me to service the witch my grandmother...i can't do it.
there's just too much that i've felt, heard, seen.
she's old and failing. one good thing she can start doing is perhaps not sow so many seeds of discord among her children. and for some reason, none of her children actually see this, when the sharper grandchildren are able to pick it up.
i know my mum wants me to take care of her when she grows old, but i'm not sure if i have the capability to. yet in some corner in my heart, i feel that i'm gonna do so.
how about my daughter? honestly...i'll place more emphasis on my family, like 70%-80% of my time and energy on them then on my mum.
however, i'll still take care of her!
mum, i know i'm all rude and ill-mannered and useless and not thoughtful at some, well MOST, times, i hope that you can rest assured i'll take care of you and not let your hopes down[at least i hope].
please take care of your health and body. please forgive me for being the useless daughter i am that i can't help to alleviate your heavy burden of family, chores and work.
i'll start to learn how to do chores, learn how to cook, learn how to take care of the family so as to help you release a bit of your heavy burden. that is, after the exams are over.
i hope that you'll stay strong and healthy and happy.
i hope that you, me and kor kor will always be together.
i hope that we'll all be happy and have our wishes granted.
jiayou mum i love you!
the one who took great pains and raised you to be who you are today?
or the one who will be your future joy and pride?
tough choice huh?
i look at my mother...having to always balance her mum and us...it's quite scary, tedious, hair-splitting.
i don't like my scheming and demanding grandmother. so i'll probably choose none.
right now, my mum is yelling into the phone telling that witch in hokkien that i didn't tell her[my mum] that she[my grandmother] called. coz my mum was downstairs burning incense paper when that witch called. so i was supposed to ask mum to call the witch back.
turned out i forgot and only told her like an hour and a half later.
now mum made the call, the daily nightly call.
and so she's shouting and yelling.
turned out the witch's washing machine had some technical problem that caused it to not dispense water. so she wanted to call my mum up to ask her what to do[the witch received no education before]. in the end, she solved it by re-washing the batch of clothes, hence wasting water thus her water bill will rocket.
so my mum came into my room and said: "next time ah ma calls you must tell me." in a very grave manner. i mean who can blame her after a deafening conversation, no shouting competition, over the phone with the witch?
god help me.
they always say service those around you for a start, before you start servicing the outside community.
i've wanted to go to africa or china to help the poor.
however, if you ask me to service the witch my grandmother...i can't do it.
there's just too much that i've felt, heard, seen.
she's old and failing. one good thing she can start doing is perhaps not sow so many seeds of discord among her children. and for some reason, none of her children actually see this, when the sharper grandchildren are able to pick it up.
i know my mum wants me to take care of her when she grows old, but i'm not sure if i have the capability to. yet in some corner in my heart, i feel that i'm gonna do so.
how about my daughter? honestly...i'll place more emphasis on my family, like 70%-80% of my time and energy on them then on my mum.
however, i'll still take care of her!
mum, i know i'm all rude and ill-mannered and useless and not thoughtful at some, well MOST, times, i hope that you can rest assured i'll take care of you and not let your hopes down[at least i hope].
please take care of your health and body. please forgive me for being the useless daughter i am that i can't help to alleviate your heavy burden of family, chores and work.
i'll start to learn how to do chores, learn how to cook, learn how to take care of the family so as to help you release a bit of your heavy burden. that is, after the exams are over.
i hope that you'll stay strong and healthy and happy.
i hope that you, me and kor kor will always be together.
i hope that we'll all be happy and have our wishes granted.
jiayou mum i love you!