Father & Mother

A short story of the "PARENTS"

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Last week, when I was home, this convo occurred between me and mom that left me speechless.

Little background of the "Dad and Mom" & the "Hometown"

As always, the mother likes to go temple (like seriously the freak auntie who goes to temple a lot), but that is the only place that she finds joy of happiness the most cos all her friends (bunch of men and few women only including her) would joke and tease each other to the core including those dirty-little-talks. I know its like wtf you are in the temple yet you talked those nonsense, of course not those too sensitive la! haha! Let's called it, the "hang-out" place for the elders in my hometown. My hometown quite ulu, no shopping malls no big shops etc, all like small little shops only but it has the best seafood I ever eat, the freshness is so yumz!

As I grow up in this little town, I slightly have the knowledge whether those seafood in the markets are fresh or not. Almost half of my life I spent in M'sia, can say that I do not or never buy seafoods in supermarkets but I do eat from those shops who specialised on such. What I did was, mom cooked from home, frozen it and I bring it over here, whenever, I want to eat seafood, I would defrost those and eat. I know its unhealthy but it's better than I have to buy those which is very $$ and not fresh at all okayy...

Back to the convo between me and mom, one day she asked if I want to accompany her to the temple, so all the thoughts of being the only youngster in the temple is already boring. Plus, I have to act that I'm interested on their talks, pretend to laugh, pretend to have eye-contact and understand what they talked about. Not all the times tho, sometimes I really enjoy their jokes and just laugh with them. At times, when I'm lazy I would kept myself busy with phone on FB, twitter, blog etc. I have to say it clearly, this is not a nightmare at all! On the first day I landed my foots at home, I already accompanied her to the temple. But on the last three days before coming back here, I refused to accompany her cos the half of the day I accompanied her to few temples already. So it happened like this:

Mom: Go and change your clothes now and we go

Me: Aishh don't want la, I'm so lazy to wait for all the talks etc till you are done & we can come home

Mom: The time your mother go to sell salted eggs and when you want to accompany also no chances any more (Sell salted eggs means depart to another world, its a slang in hokkien we used in our family)

Me: SPEECHLESSSSS!!!! Guai guai go change and go with her hehe...

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From the day I left home has already been 12 years (3.5 in Medan & 8.5 in here), what I can do when I back home is to accompany dad and mom for brunches, dinners, suppers and some outings (be there for them). At times, I pretend that I understand the talks with dad too cos he is 72 years old now and when he talks, he tends to repeat himself sometimes yet his ability to remember the past stories is two-thumbs up and thank god that he is healthy despite the fact that he does not do check-ups! 

What happened between me and mom, I applied it to my brother too. There was once we were on the phone, I could not remember how we talked about CNY. He did not plan to come home cos tickets are so bloody exp if he was to bring the whole family back. Although last year he made a surprised, read here. 

So this is what I said to him: 

"When your parents sell salted eggs already, you want to come back and celebrate also can not already" *touch woods!! choi choi choi!! I told him that is what your mom said to me when I refused to go out with her one of the days lolol!  

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All in all, despite the boredom and waitings that I have to face but what really matters is the COMPANION. Life is short, make a meaningful with your loved ones. 

P/S: If you are my relatives and happened to read this entry, please do not spread nonsense to my loved ones :)