my mother is Strange, she doesn't want to bai nian this cny because she always loses a lot of money by giving big ang paos. all the relatives on my father's side are skinflints, so our cny haul never crosses the 200 dollar mark though there are so many of them. she complains about this every year but she still gives very generously to others despite my sister and i telling her to give the money to her more deserving children. instead of being a little smarter this time round, she chooses to boycott cny entirely, but she's been saying that since forever so i doubt she will actually miss cny.
all bark and no bite, that's my mother. i got that side from her, so from me it's just all talk and no action which explains my amazing ability to procrastinate, people usually get taken in by the nonsense i feed them. another thing i got from her would be extremely chubby cheeks; if i were shorter i probably could pass off as a primary school kid. people still ask me if i'm in secondary school, which is something i'm pretty proud of seeing as how i will be on the wrong side of 20 soon. i also got my chao bien from her and her side of the family; it saddens me when people tell me that i look very stern/arrogant/dao so i conveniently blame it on her. just a curious question though, how is it that i can look arrogant when i have the cheeks of a chipmunk?
the one thing i am thankful i didn't get from her is her taste in music. anything that doesn't have drums or electric guitar or loud sounds is considered a good song, whereas i prefer songs that are wildly exuberant, slightly campy and they are usually loud. she likes most ballads because they have "meaningful" lyrics though how britney spears' "sometimes" is meaningful is beyond me. country music is one of her favourite genres and she delights in playing conway twitty (who just happens to be one of the world's most horrible singer, he bleeding whines like rihanna.) in the car when i have no avenue of escape so i must sit there quietly because it would be selfish of me to deprive my mother of her favourite music.
i don't know why i'm doing a post on my mother now, but i do know that today is tuesday and i usually spend tuesdays and fridays with her because those are her off days. unfortunately, my timetable does not allow me to do so this sem so i suppose this is an apology of sorts, or perhaps an early tribute for mother's day. for once i am early for such occasions.
p.s.: speaking about being early for such occasions, when are we going to give ming her 17th birthday present? i stumbled upon my part of the present when spring cleaning my desk. might this year be an auspicious year to finally bestow our gift on her?
our day will come.
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