When he is just a little boy..

There is a theory that goes like this....(according to me)

If a little child is curious or likes to jing-ku people or likes to discover new things, he'll most of the time get caught by the teacher/ disciplinarian and get punished or admonished, BUT he'll go very far when he grows up.

On the contrary, for a boy who just sits around, follows instructions, obey rules and regulations, surely teachers all lurvs him, as he's giving them less headache, but we all know, honesty is not totally the best policy. Like the saying in chinese goes "joong joong jek jek..."

And why I'm pointing this out? Because I want to remind myself as...

Today, didi did it again! The teacher told me he used his finger and point very very closely to another boy's eye and oops! too bad, he got caught by the teacher. The teacher dragged him to the principal and they asked him why he did it. He said "but he ought to close his eye"!!

I suppose he was experimenting eye reflexology ke? Honestly, I do not know if he ought to be admonished or not, as something must be going in his mind (like finding out if he really will go blind??), but I understand, teachers want to avoid any mishaps and confrontations later on.

Anyway, he had to missed a week's of computer lesson and PE to hang round with the principal. I sure hope he thinks it's all worth it. And I'm keeping my fingers crossed the theory above is true.

Sigh.. and he's not even started schooling yet! What's next??!!

Over the weekend in brief.

• Had a good hi-tea in a Sheraton KL. Totally blown away by its carrot cake, and now, I'm searching high and low for its recipe. Yummy! Had we gone in separate cars instead, it would have been perfect!
  
• After stuffing and stuffing till 4pm, dinner was just rojak and milo.
• Watched "The Inconvenient Truth", so apt in conjunction with Earth Hour and all the propaganda on global warming. Have you seen it? If not, it's a recommended watch, I was surprised it was better than I expected it to be.
  
• We observed Earth Hour, but played Wii and fan was on. Not my fault, scold the males!
• Didi finally get won over by Wii, apparently papa finds it very annoying some friend's kids who's at the same age are already playing all sorts of computer games, PS2 and phone games. Kiasu indeed, I agree! So, there we were, coaxing him to try it (what kind of parents?!), and now, all 5 of us are fighting for the Wii remotes. That's indeed "Fun"!
• What do you do when you hold a RM50 voucher for MPH which had expired? I'm not gonna tell you what we did, but we brought home some dictionaries for korkor (chinese), and some workbooks for all of them.
• Papa seemed to be angry with me for making him "fly planes" when I didn't want to join him to go up some "Little Genting" place to see KLCC do the disappearing act.
• Slept 10 hours from 10.30 to 8 on a SATURDAY! That's quite a feat for me, considering it's a "movie night" and for 10 hours straight. I woke up on Sunday feeling refreshed and radiant (self denial, yes, BUT certainly a good way to encourage myself to stop denying sleep)
• Koko showed me his teacher's remarks in the Buku Catatan to ask me get him a haircut, on Sunday evening, right before bedtime! I quickly took out my scissors and comb and completed the task within a short time. Those "training" had been very good for me indeed. Ahh.. there he is, looking so handsome. So satisfied with my "skill" now. (I wonder at what age he'll start demanding for a haircut with a proper trained person? hehehe...)

And this weekend, it's time to visit our ancestors, say hello to them, requests them to bless the children, grandchildren, also suen-pin gives us lots of luck to prosper and have the health to enjoy it. Not very greedy also la, hoh?

And we might as well ask them to take care of our mother nature too, since we are burning all those paper and dump just so they can have the money, house, car, maid etc so they can have a good life "there" while we sacrifice our own living space for them.

Friday ta-char-fan

Just to prove I'm a silai indeed. Joe silai joe doe ngor gum... bin doe wan.. hor?

This dish is called "Ha ha Halowing Pumpkin".
Full with vitamins, texture like potato and sweet like sweet potatoes.

"Ichiban Ma Lei Mong fah sang and lin-ngau affair Soup"
Double boiled for 6 hours and kept warm for lunch and dinner.
Poe lou, poe ngan, poe san tei, hoe hoe yum.

"Hak kor mak dau fei jau bawal fish",
"green french babes"&
"A-cup braless chicken dipped in horny beans"
Green, red, black, multi-colored for a colorful life and a happy family meal.

And also a glimpse of my brand new table, can see not?

Little things in life.

It's not so hard to enjoy life. The other day, after a blurred morning (like suddenly "huh? time to pick the kids now ah?) I just made a simple lunch and hurried off to the tadika. Driving home, on the spur of moment, I decided to take them for a short and simple indulgence and took them along to eat tai-peng-kor donuts.

It's so joyous to see them eat. "mmm.. so yummy" says didi. While meimei already tucked her little mouth into the pink donut, coloring her little cheeks pink as well. I just let them dirty themselves, when we get home, they'll have their shower anyway. It's a sheer pleasure just to spend these moments with them.

After walloping all 5 of them, leaving 1 behind for korkor, I told didi not to tell papa that we ate these donuts hoh. He asked me why. I said "if you tell, papa going to scold mommy and I can't take them here again lor" He gave a deep thought and his face told me he understood very well.

Then, we walked around for a little bit of shopping spree. Ahh... found a pair of nice comfy sandals for myself, and some few other items enough to make my day. Got this tablecloth for my table in the kitchen.

This old and worn table was left behind by the previous owner of this property, and we had wanted to replace it all the time. But somehow, both of us seemed to feel rather reluctant to just throw it away without a good valid reason as it's still standing fine. If someone would have liked to have it, we would be happy to give too. Then again, it doesn't really make a fine gift. Ahh.. with this tablecloth now, it totally gave it an uplifting look again and it became almost like new. Happy.

And with this, we went home and went through the day with our routine again.

The next day, papa came home fr his trip and meimei "chuen poe" our little secret. It was rather funny, with didi pointing a finger at her and said "ORHHHH!!! you told papa!". Meimei looked at me innocently and I said "that's ok, we can't have the donuts anymore only". And she started to pout, her eyes became misty and then *bawl*.

Oh yes, this taipengkor donuts gave me some vouchers for a promotion period in April, some buy 6 free 3, 3 for RM5.. I'm so gonna have it again (don't care what the man says). Yay!

Of mini concert, haircut & birthday party

I have so many things to blog about from the events on Saturday, but it's already Thursday, so half of what I had in mind was long forgotten.

After our usual hakka mee breakfast (goolymama, ingat? yummy!), we rushed over to the kids' tadika for a mini concert cum some Earth environment day, something something. It's one of the management's effort to contribute their part to the society, of course, conveniently dragging our children along. Anyway.. I'm not ranting or complaining.

Started with the opening of cutie-cuties singing, dancing, prancing, jumping, oh, I have a video of meimei's little swaying of hips. It's so cute (I say cute means cute, ok?)

Apart from that, there was a playland, so called, it's actually just some bouncers and a pool of balls for the kids to let loose in. They, of course, so love it. Some organisations of WWF (Earth Hour!), spa business, toys company and.. I forgot! Anyway, there's one which I like to highlight though.Dermatoglyphics. More of that later.

After hanging around till lunch hour, we left and didi couldnt' find his sandals. We had to return home to find him a pair of shoes and out again.

I was eager to have a haircut while papa wanted to visit some homefair. And thus, we had lunch, went separate ways and meimei followed me to a salon to get it done with before I changed my mind. It was quite some moons ago since I last went to have my hair permed.


We then lalalum rush to a birthday party of a friend's daughter who's same age as korkor. As our siewyisi, I thought instead of buying ANOTHER toy or book or clothings, why won't we have some bouncy fun? These bouncers were from the morning's kindy where they conveniently moved over, and I got some decent discounts for it for the convenience.

They had some splashing fun and it was all hell broke loose. It gives us a peace of mind though, that the children are occupied and having fun by themselves. And I was made a VERY "respected" guest from the children as I brought them this "present". *beams*




Yes, my new hairstyle! From curls to straight to curls to straight... it's a cycle. And yeah, I curi curi went bouncing on that thing.

We enjoyed ourselves that evening, staying up till 11+. Indeed nice to be spending some time with friends.

He made it finally!

At his age, korkor were playing handphone games, passing one level after another until the last. He had beaten me to it in no time. I was stuck in level 2 while he had finished his level 10. Or were my fingers too clumsy compared to his, thus lost to him?

As for didi, he has no interest in these gadgety games, be it handphone, computer or Wii. He's still into "making things" with the toys korkor no longer interested in years ago.

Sometime ago, I showed him some little tricks with a rubberband, something I used to play with during my younger days. He was so curious in those tricks that he had been wearing a rubberband on his wrist everyday, when he sleeps, when he plays, when he's schooling, when he's bathing, playing with it anytime he wants to. Some of the times, he refer that rubber band as the Omnitrix too (imaginative??)

To my surprise, he learnt some of those tricks on his own, and after showing him a few more times, he has mastered it. I'm just in awed how a simple rubberband can hold his interest for this long, and still counting.

So, here is the step-by-step procedure on how to make a "babystar in a big star's tummy", butterfly, gun, knife and a ring, and some little "magic", behold, Lavid Loperfeel in the making.




Talk about cheap, how cheap can we be? Goolypop told her son to just use his hands and transform into autobots. I'm slightly better than her, ain't I?

Children. How I wish they would stay being at this age, so cute and adorable. And I also wish they would only remember the nice things in their childhood, not the witch I was sometimes. I hate myself too when I turned into a witch.

Something's not quite right today.

• woke up earlier than usual to send mama and ahyi off. me cry? no la. just a bit mm-seh-tuck, got. heiz.
• after less than 24 hours here, I figured I have to search high and low for my things in the kitchen. my mama. don't you *hate* it when someone else touched your stuffs and relocate the things to don't-know-where?
• I spent some time revising musical pieces with didi and found myself tearing his clothes! He was so testing my patience, but I was adamant and in the end, I am hanging low with misery and guilt. Scared to bits what will possibly happen when he's not that forgiving later. I swear I'm gonna practice more self-control.
• My heart feels so empty, my mind is blank, I had the shock of my life when I opened up my pc this morning.
  
• the short chat with a good friend yesterday who dropped a bombshell, still lingering in my mind, hoping, praying he's ok, and worried this kind of thing happening to my hubby. last night, he put his arm on my hand and I could feel it burning. He wasn't feeling well and is having a terrible sore throat. Though sometimes (ok, very often) I nag and complain about him, I really do not know what I will do if something happens to him. (Time to go to temples and churches?)

Or maybe, I am missing my mama already. Hope she'll be home soon. *sob*

Mou-liew pantun war at FB

This is something which really made me laughed whole morning. Thanks to these 2 sampat flers. You say they talented or not? Those pantun berbalas-balas without much delay one. Can send them to mewakili country. Click on it to read.


Do I know them? Really, just not long ago only.

English lesson - UP

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election and why is itUP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends and we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.

At other times the little word has a real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
And this up is confusing:
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.

We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP . When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on & on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now ........my time is UP , so time to shut UP!

Oh...one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night?

U P

Don't screw up. Send this on to everyone you look up in your address book.

Now I'll shut up

(from my mailbox someone sent to me this morning)

We so need one of this.

Last night, we went to watch "Race to Witch Mountain". Koko can sit and watch for the whole show, though I wonder how much he could comprehend. Then again, that wasn't very important. While the other 2 were restless and did not know how to appreciate it yet.

After the show, we passed through a digital exhibition on the ground floor and saw this cool gadget. It's a trilingual dictionary, english, BM, chinese. The feature I love most is the touch screen and I can write the character in chinese on the screen and it will decipher the code for me, doesn't matter I do not know how it pinyin or count the number of strokes. We both so love it and so need it very much. It will be very useful especially when papa is not home.

For koko, he loves the feature where he does not need to know the kata dasar of the malay word he is looking for. That's because when everytime he checks a word, he will come and ask me what the base word is and before I tell him, I would usually bark at him to make a wild guess before opening his mouth to ask me. Apart from that, there are many other features that make both of us lau-sai-hau-sui. I wish it's not that pricey, tagged at Rm1400, then I would have straight away brought it home. But come to think of how useful it is for the younger 2 later as well, it's quite a steal, ain't it?

I am looking if we can just have similar functions on the internet, FOC, rather than paying so much for this gadget. Do you know of any?

These uncooperative models

We didn't depart early for the trip home last weekend. On Friday night, we watched Shu Qi's "old movies" when she wasn't that famous yet until about 3am, that's why.

So, we took out sweet time to get the butts up from bed, had our favorite hakka mee for breakfast with JM, and while she's around, asked her to babysit the kids for us again while we check out MATTA fair in PWTC. This time round, we didn't buy any packages or vouchers. So, no holiday plans yet so far, but hubby is interested to go to Bali.

By the time we packed and ready to set off, it was about 4pm. We reached home just nicely for dinner after shower. And the dinner was yummy. And cheap too. 11 of us (big and small), 7 dishes, only about 130 bucks. This meal is like a treat for my mama from us. She will be flying away to HK in a few days time. (MY, take note! haha...)

The next day, we went to Ming Court for dimsum. Darn loh.. so crowded one. Where got recession wei?? We have to find table which has nobody waiting for. Lucky too we didn't wait too long. I wasn't very patient and wanted to leave, but I knew how much hubby wanted to eat there. It's really been way too long since the last visit. Somehow, MC dimsum has something to make us yearn for.

After enough stuffing ourselves, it was good, we hopped over to nearby studio for the phototaking session. The kids were running around too much, and they aren't tired, but I was. Telling them not to run and shout, that is. Jeez..

Here they are, after some spraying on their hair and changing of attire...

(Mommy, this baju giving me rashes...)

(EEK! what's that?)

(Ewww...)

(Mommy, I'm a princess, I'm a princess!)

(All ready for the shots. Must smile, else no icecream later, hoh?)

We had several poses of
1. everyblardy inside - his parents, my parents, the 5 of us
2. 5 of us with my parents (in casual, own baju)
3. 5 of us with his parents (in evening gown and chinese kwa - my mil)
4. 5 of us
5. 2 of us
6. 3 of them
7. me and luilui
8. luilui only
9. didi only...

and they were restless, we had enough, and we called it a day.

We stayed on to look at the pictures, chose the ones we wanted for enlargement and framed, and had some negotiation with the lengchai. It's very challenging, 'cos he was telling us the package didn't include a CD to let us have the soft copies of the shots. Of course, we were furious and after some series of attacks and bargains, we managed to wrestle the soft copies back to us. And I can show it off here or in FB later. Have to wait 3 weeks, or maybe more, depending on when we will be going home again.

It was 2+ by the time we were done, and we headed to the Gunung Rapat main road for noodles and stuffed fish in everything. It was easy to find a small table, as only meimei were hanging around with us. The others left in different cars, back home for mahjong sessi already. Basically, we had a good time eating, eating and eating. Something it's hard to do if we were to go back during long weekends or festive seasons. Yummy! I love my hometown food.

Oh and by the way, Fusan (the dimsum king) is building a majestic restaurant of its own just opposite MIng Court. We look at it and can only say "Wow!". Foh San is helping MC to solve its problem of over-crowding... I hope they have a system of Q-numbers when it opens its doors. Look at the open air area on the first floor.. I can imagine how fantastic it is to eat dimsum there even during midnight. Can't wait for it to open business.

This weekend balik kampung tangkap gambar.

Ooh.. I'm so sexcited. Remembering how fun it was being a "paying-model", taking pictures before the wedding. I remembered I hardly sleep a wink the night before at that time. But the session dragged till 7pm and hubby dozed off most times. He complained it was too boring and that's why till now, I didn't pester him to take a family picture together.

Oh yeah, we did, during our stay in Taiwan, before coming back here for good. But there were only korkor. After the younger 2 came, we didn't have another family pictures taken by a photographer anymore.

Taking the excuse this year being our 10th year anniversary, we are going to do this. Yay! Actually, we bought the RM99 package for 5 prints and complimentary makeup, hairdo, outfits last year. It's now or never (going to expire mah!).

Boy! I need to run and do facials, manicure, pedicure, hair color, hair perm and oh no.. my eye-bags!!! Duh! Never mind la, photoshop can la, still got meaning, right, Goolypop?

(donch worry, I will NOT put the pictures here up for you to lose your appetite)

Bastard? Ohh.. it's busted.

Heard didi cursing "Bastard!" under his breath the other day, I was too shocked for words and asked him where he learnt that word from. Of course not from me or his dad la, we use "Shit!" most of the time only. His dad is worse than me, anyway, it's not him I want to talk about today.

Eventually, I found out he learnt it from one of those cartoon networks and they were actually saying "busted" instead of bastard. Korkor asked me several times what the word means, I told him the latter is a bad word.

Being kids, all of them have no idea what bad words mean, so some of the time, I still catch them using the word like it's helluva fun. I guess the fact it makes me fuming is fun. When I plead with korkor not to use that word, he asked why, he's just saying busted only mah..How to teach, huh?

As I was driving the other day, I thought about this matter and wondered aloud why then my brothers and I never use much foul language from young. Well, we are just too obedient children, I guess. But really. Why, hmm...

I think my mama is a very disciplined mom, she firmly believes in caning. And the eldest set a role model for the younger ones, so the eldest always had to behave. So, anything done against her rules and regulations, out comes the cane. And my brothers bear most of the caning sessions. But still, they didn't rebel. And most times, her way works.

This age, it seems not so cool to use the cane all the time, right? Then, how do I solve this problem? *scratch scratch head*

Found a superhero sleeping last night.

Last night before I went to bed to call it a day, went in to check the boys, as usual. Particularly didi, who STILL would wet his pants at times, especially after a cup of water before bedtime.

What I saw made me burst into little giggles, he was really awful cute. It was finding a dunno-what superhero sleeping there. You see, last business travel, papa had brought home a pair of funny looking socks-shoes, which don't look like shoes and don't look like socks either. It's a mixture of both. And a piece of eyepatch, which is those given on flights to let cover your eyes and sleep in the dark. When the kids asked me what that is, I do not know the term for it and told them it's sleep-goggles, just like goggles is used for swimming, this one is particularly for sleeping.

So, all 3 were fighting to get their hands on it, and I have to settle the dispute by saying everyone must take turns, else all it goes to the dustbin. So, korkor had the shoes-socks, meimei grabbed the sleep goggles before it's too late, while didi just had to wait.

Last night, he took both of it and donned it on. Somehow, he wore a black and blue pyjamas, such matching colors to those stuffs on his face and his feet. He looked so damn cute. I quickly rushed out to take the camera and snapped a picture of it. Another beautiful parenting moment.

Cuti-cuti Malaysia

We depart at 12 noon, went up Genting to pick up 2 very important people and back downhill onwards to somewhere in the woods after about, what, 5-6 hours later. Somewhere along the highway, we were cruising about 110km/hr when suddenly after the bend, the cars in front were all stopping at a halt. Hubby was furiously stepping on the emergency brake and all of us were plunged forward, the screeching sound was heard and our hearts almost jumped out, I think. I can only think of "die loh, die loh, this time sure die loh".... That was certainly not the adrenalin pumping activity I had in mind.

After that near-miss, I was really glad no mishap happened and everyone is safe and sound. Perhaps that put me in a good mood throughout the trip and appreciate the family time we have together, albeit...never mind.

The first night, we went to check out the best resort in that vicinity, walked around a bit, had dinner somewhere which took about 1 hour to arrive, even though we were only the 2nd table of customers there and back to hotel to dot dot dot. Watch Star Movies only la. The one with the weapon was too exhausted from the day's driving and left me alone yak Ngan Yin fahsang with the TV. What a waste. A rainpour outside was making me in the mood also. So, after finished watching half of dunno-what-movie and bits and pieces of National Treasure - Book of Secrets, with my eyes shut-open-shut-open again, I finally gave up and went to sleep too.

Kor kor was the first to rise and shine early in the morning, and after breakfast in the morning, we packed our stuffs and went to the jetty, saving RM120 for a guided tour to the highest canopy hike and a rapids shooting activity, to follow the trail on our own. The hike was about 1 hour, it was very serene to be in the woods with my little girl in hand, taking our sweet time, enjoying the nature, snapping pictures, watching out for leeches, eeee.... but no, lucky no leeches were seen. *whew*

When we arrived the site, there were about 200 people waiting in line, it'll be roughly a 2 hours wait for our turn. What to do, went all the way there, can't possibly quit right there, yeah? So, we so-kang-kang waited for whole of 2 hours to walk on the highest canopy walk in Malaysia and enjoy the view from the top of the trees with the birds.

Finally our turn came and happy that the wait was over. I went first with meimei and she was sooooo shaking. Honestly, I was shaking too, but had to encourage her, so I was telling her, "no need to be scared, look in front, look at the treehouse, look at the birds".. but she was walking realllllly slow. Haha.. the people at the back were like, catching up fast with us and shooing us to "move it, move it".

I changed strategy after the first stop and told her to walk behind me and hold my clothes tightly. It worked! She walked at my pace, though it wasn't fast either, but at least, it didn't halt the traffic. I was a bit geram though, as I waited 2 hours for this, but instead of walking and enjoying the view from above, I was kept being chased all the while to "fai tit la, fai tit la".. Dang!

After the jungle walk and the shaky walk, our legs were numbed to the toes and the wong-thai-hau die-die also wanted a boat to get back to our starting point. So, the 3 men got a boat and paid RM160 to get us to upriver for some splashing fun before going back to the jetty area. (My camera's batteries died down on me while on the canopy walk, how upsetting!)

The boat ride was very pleasant, meimei was sitting beside me and the wind was blowing on our faces. It was so relaxing and pleasant, and it's certainly much better to be on a real river than on a theme park's made believe tropical river and fake crocodiles. The striper made sure the water splashed in, especially when we went through the rapids. Meimei cried and all of us were like both thrilled and worried that we were dripped from top to toe. The kids and I were lucky as we were seated in the front seats and we weren't so dripped. Hubby's brother and his wife were the most "wet" ones, basically their seats were flooded with water. Oh, that boat ride was so short and fun indeed.

We went back to hotel and quickly showered. Then out came the induction cookers, instant noodles, chicken, greens, cake, tidbits and attack! After that, rest time. By late afternoon, I took out the scissors and comb, to cut the boys hair. Hehe.. this to save the trouble of cleaning up the mess if I do it at home.

Dinner was at one of those "floating restaurants" on the riverbank but it wasn't as good as the night before. After dinner, as we walked back to our car, didi held meimei's hand while guiding her on the rocks, as he had a torchlight and he wanted to be a hero. Hubby and I walked behind, him holding my hand, and I was enjoying myself watching the little 2 in front of us. It was really cute and I felt very "hang fook" at that time too. I guess it's been too long my hubby didn't hold my hand :/

Just stayed for 2 nights, and we cabut after breakfast already. The grandpa wanted to drop by somewhere along the highway to detour to a elephant's sanctuary. We found the place and were so disappointed there were only 2 little baby elephants and 1 bigger one around only. And the poor baby elephants, they were tied up on their leg to the tree to protect the visitors, I guess. We stayed briefly.

So, that concludes our short long weekend break, and hopefully tomorrow and this week onwards, korkor can do better in his 1st term test. What good parents we are! Taking son to a holiday BEFORE he faces his test papers to give him encouragement! This is called modern parenting, tau tak? :P

(Photos on FB, say I look sassy there, k?)

When they are angels.

When I'm down, only the children have the power to make me either shout at them louder than usual or put a smile back on my face.

And when I have noone to turn to, noone I can talk to, no shoulders to cry on, I rely on my kids for some comfort quite substantially.

That was what I did. Just after the shower and putting on the pyjamas for meimei, I asked her if she loves papa or mommy. She answered quite diplomatically she loves papa AND mommy.

Then I gave her an even complex question, I asked if papa stays in Ipoh and mommy in KL, where she wants to stay. She replies instantly KL! That was so cute. Then I turned it around and asked with a puppy face look, what if mommy stays in Ipoh and papa in KL, where does she like to stay then?

Somehow, in that instance, she gave me a look that showed she understood how down I felt at that time and said dearly she wants to follow mommy (no matter where I go) Aww... and we hugged and all the heartache I felt were lift off. What will I do without them? Then again, who knows what they will become when they grow up? Will they be unfilial like me? *go corner with heads down*

Di persimpangan dilema

My mom, had worked in HK for a rich fler for a short stint of 3 months before she came here to stay with me 2 years ago.

It was a babysitting job, twin babies of 1 month old. The parents tried a long time to conceive and when they finally succeed, it was extremely precious to them. They recruited my mom through a sister of hers who was working in HK for another rich tycoon.

Mama had been very envious of her sister's life thus far, who not only earning a fat income and receiving tips here and there, she also had the privilege to travel together with her employer and the kids in tow. Shanghai, Sydney, Caribbean cruise, UK... it surpassed my list of places I visited already. I too felt envious, don't talk about my mom!

So, when the opportunity came, she dived into it, not knowing the days would be so torturing. 3 months, and it seemed like 3 years to her. Taking care of twins, the new mom wouldn't allow the twins to sleep separately, and it was a very stringent and rigid environment where the comfort to the new nanny wasn't even a priority. The stress was too hard to bear, coupled with the fact that her employer ate back her words on some of the conditions and she wanted out after a month. But this fler held her wages and wouldn't let her come home until 3 months full, after my aunt (mama's sister) went over to take over the task from her.

The work environment was so bad that this aunt too, had wanted to quit after 1 month.

Anyway, when she did return home, she looked a few years older and so much thinner. Poor mama, I felt bad, really bad. It's simple to me. If our parents are suffering so much to work for money at this age, it's us, the children who failed miserably to provide them a comfortable and happy retirement.

Now, after these 2 years, the employer called her again, and trying to coax her to go to HK with my aunt to work as a babysitter one more time. She's having her 2nd pregnancy and going to deliver soon, I suppose. Mama is very tempted to dive in again, though I strongly disagree. Is it worthwhile? Not that she doesn't have enough to spend, really. Though it's just plain rice everyday, not with sharks fin and abalone, but at least can afford fish and chicken.

Why she wants to be separated from dad at this old age? Why does she want to suffer? And with the bad records of the employer eating back on her words, why she's still trusting her?

I guess it's plainly, all for money. And it falls back on us, we fail miserably, don't we?