Family day cum day I lost my precious!
To others, Sunday is a normal family day, but for our family, every alternate Monday is a family day! Relatives on mummy's side also abide to our custom! So, almost fortnightly, we will have a mass gathering at one of the Hougang's kopitiam for 'zi cha'. We are closer to the relatives on mummy's side, so this kind of tradition is only observed with them, rather that with the relatives on daddy's side.
Basically, my parents' schedule for every alternate Monday is generally the same. Firstly, daddy wakes up 9 in the morn, goes to the kopitiam a few blocks away, find granny who will always be on the lookout for daddy on Mondays, and the 2 of them will chitchat over coffee. Actually, most of the time, it is granny who is doing the talking. Above all the bad habits that my dad has, he is really a filial son, and a doting son-in-law. As much as he likes to tease my granny about her stinginess (she is always complaining about the lack of ingredients people put) and her bun of a hairstyle, he bothers to keep her company and hear her talk.
After the breakfast, daddy comes home, wait for a while, and proceed to another kopitiam much further away with mummy, and sometimes me/brother (if we are at home) for lunch. Well, I can tell you the food they eat is pretty much the same. It's either duck porridge or bap kut teh. Hardly anything else. Next thing on the schedule is to go visit ah ma (my paternal grandma) or some temples. However today, it is shopping day! I think commencement to us graduates is nothing much in particular but to our parents, it is a great deal! Thus, I accompanied my parents to the nearby Compasspoint to do some 'commencement shopping'. Ever since they started running the stall, I hardly see daddy wearing shirts and pants although he used to before he changed his way of making a living. He boasted about him being such a suave hunk in his newly bought clothes and how he looked like a 20 plus year old youngster. Well, if you know him, you will know how humorous and bhb a guy he is. Haha.. About him being suave and all... Well, we have seen much better.. Oops.. haha
Sob sob... The most upsetting thing happened today! I know its inevitable cos I have received so many complains from my family already. But I had thought that things could have been delayed. To me, it is the most wonderful thing, but everyone else in the family doesn't agree with me! Why?! My mummy INSISTED on buying me a new booster! @#$%*@$ I don't want! I only want my old one! Without it, I cannot go to sleep! In the end, I lost the battle, and ended up with a new booster. I whined to mummy that I need to slowly get use to the new booster, so in the mean time, she CANNOT throw away my old one yet. I'm glad I got that small victory. Phew!
I thought it is natural to have something since young, like my booster which according to the rest in my family, smell as old too but of course I don't think so! It seems that I am the only one in the family who has something like that. But eh no! My brother got 1 teeny-weeny booster from young which he still has, but no one complains! Unfair! I can do nothing to appeal my case, since the jury unanimously condemned my booster. Goodbye my love..........
