My Grandmother. My Ah Ma.

I used to be not close to my grandma. She's just like any other relatives to me initially. Relatives that you may meet sometimes only once a year during Chinese New year. Or sometimes a few more times, when we tagged along mother when she wanted to visit Ah Ma during the weekends.

However, most of the time due to all of our busy schedules,
mother always visit Ah Ma alone.

We usually would tag along mother to visit Ah Ma especially when we are about to head on to a long journey ahead, such as when my 2sis is heading to Australia for further studies, my e.sister heading to London for her Masters, myself before going into the army and during overseas exercises, etc. And everytime while we share with Ah Ma our planned journey ahead, with no doubt, Ah Ma would always says this, with a smile.

"Ho la. Ta bi, Mm Zai Le Deng Lai Liao, Wa Ko Wo Di Bo..."
(Gd lah. But not sure whether when you come back, I'm still around or not...)

Ah Ma has always been a cheerful person as far as I know since young. I've never seen or heard her being angry, complaining, nagging or screaming. She's always very cheerful and forever smiling. Did I mention she's also very attentive and always provide good hospitality to us whenever we visit her. She'll make sure we have food, drinks, tissues on the table, TV on, and finally sitting comfortably at the sofa. She knows her house is not in the perfect situation to welcome guests, nevertheless, she always make sure she attend to our needs with whatever she can, whenever.

During these 2 days, I chatted with Ah Ma a lot. In fact, I would say even more than what we have chat before in my entire lifetime. It gives me a sudden feeling of closeness with Ah Ma. A kind of relationship and closessness that's different from how I feel with my mum & dad. It's totally a different feeling, respect and love, which I believe, only you will feel it with your grandma.

I hope this incident will make him, us, and everyone here learn a lesson today.

Never ever take a person for granted.





And try to spend more time with your family & love ones, rather than going online, doing work, chat with bfren/gfren, etc...

Let me repeat again.

Do not take anyone for granted.
Before you know it's too late and you start to regret why didn't you treat him/her better when you have the chance to previously.

I'm gonna bring Jiaying over to see Ah Ma this Friday. So excited!
Can feel that Ah Ma is excited to see Jiaying too.

=)

It's hard to control.

Harder to accept.

Even for an adult like me.

Hope this storm will be over.

May the rainbow appear soon.

Boonzilla will be a strong person.

No matter what happens.

Always.

I promise.

老爸 and Mother.

It's been quite sometime since we had our family gathering. Hence on last Sunday, we brought Mother out to downtown east to have a game of bowling together. It's our first time playing bowling together and we had fun time cheering & laughing especially when someone hits the drain. Haa... Da Niu also showed us his 'super-sey' bowling skills with 2sis doing quite well too. Both of them can score over 100 easily each. Our team, which consist of me, Jiaying & Mother, can only struggle not to widen our total score difference. Ha!

After bowling, we brought Mother to Pasir Ris Park to experience a taste of rollarblading. It's one of her dreams to try rollarblading, as she used to be quite proficient in ice-skating when she was in her teens but never had the chance to try rollarblading before. Her first experience was filled with fear and insecurity initially. Jiaying and I had to hold her arms firmly to ensure she's in our safe hands. But after a short coaching and few practice sessions, she's able to 'rollar-walk' round the small pavilion all by herself! So SMART!

I'm glad mother really enjoyed herself that day. =)

老爸 received Dajie's birthday card all the way from London, exactly on his birthday today. It's only then he remembered that today is actually his birthday. Haa... The card is pretty simple and cute, but it suits him totally if you understand him well enough. Hahaa... I can see he likes the card very much. We also accompanied him to a SingTel roadshow and bought him a new handphone. Hope he likes it too. =)

As I sat beside my parents watching TV, the merciless lines on 老爸 & mother's face suddenly awaken me to realise how much they have aged over the years.

As irritating as they can be, as stubborn as they can be, as naggy as they can be... as their child, no matter how old we are or where we are, we should always treasure the times we have with them, with no regrets.

For they are the ones who gave everything unconditionally for us.

Happy Birthday 老爸 and Mother.

=)))))



FYI:
老爸 and mother's birthday are exactly one week apart.
Jiaying and mine are coincidently exactly one month apart. =)

Going Home

If your eyes are teary

after watching this clip,

you are not alone.

Always treasure

your parents & grandparents.

day by day.

Before it's too late...