Happy Birthday Mom !

It's my mom's birthday...
it should be her 66th birthday.

Let me recalls her life as she has always told me.
She came from a big family, of 14 siblings, 3 of them died while in their infancy. Another was given away. Those were the old days when all everyone did is producing babies. I'm glad i am not in that generation.

Even though her grandparents are well to do family, her father wasn't that good business man. He flounders the family wealth and business. My maternal grandfather is a gambler. He practically gambles the family wealths, fortunes and happiness away.

So, my mom has to work even at tender age. She always told me how she has to work at bricks factory, carrying bricks at age nine. Which made her very tanned to this very day. And aside from working, she has to care for her younger siblings and do household chores as well.

She do have a very difficult life. But she was hardworking and never stops working, even up to this day. She can never sit still. Probably her engine are very much tuned to work on and on.

As a child, i am a very fortunate to be her daughter. As she would take cares of everything for me and my siblings. Such that, we just have to concentrate on our studies and career. She is a very supportive mom. When dad didn't bring in enough income, she started sewing part time at home, and then babysits too.

So, i gets early baby caring crash course when i was just 12. :D
And her hardworking spirit somehow rubbed on me. All we ever think of was trying to work more to earn extra. Thats why most of my school holidays were spent working as temporary sales girl, selling sweet corn, clothes and in a restaurant. Sometimes, after working full time, i had another part time job waiting for me.

My main objectives was to give my pay to her, so that she can clears the debts. Those were the days when there is such thing as 'I.O.U' with the local sundry shop. They just took some groceries and charge them to the account. The boss of the shop somehow trusted them. I don't think people nowadays gives this kind of IOUs anymore....

Today, my siblings family and mine, celebrated her birthday together.
We went for hi-tea at the Atas Brasserie, Legend Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. It was so packed with peoples. It has been quite a long time ago that i last visited that place. Foods was okay, not much to be expected as they are charging at RM38++ per person.

I was hungry, so busy eating that i forgot to snaps any picture... LOL>>
or was i too happy in my family's companion? In this kind of ocassion, i tend to just forget how good or bad the food is. Most importantly are the companions. And we hang out there until 4.30pm with full bloated tummy.

Later , we went over to sunway pyramid. At 6pm, we got into Redbox for Karaoke sessions.
Everyone was busy singing. But mom did not sing. :D hahaha...
well, just for the fun of togetherness... so, we eats buffets served by the Redbox Sunway again.
By this time, my belly kind of being too 'tight' with food... I feel very much like a pig.
Imagine two buffets in a day ?

Oi Lee commented that the foods served at the Redbox was much better than Legend's.
We sang until 11.45pm. that was long, almost 5 hours. But we did had fun. Seing mom's happy.
Probably she might feel even happier if Jason and his family were able to join in.

I hope i would be able to bring mom see the other part of the world. She has toured singapore, China, Thailand and HK. But she has never seen the europeans cities, the other side of the planet.
If you give her a map, she wouldn't be able to tell where exactly is thailand or singapore. I hope she gets to travel while she can. May she have a healthy old age life. Good health are more important than anything for them.

I love you Mom....