It is the Chinese New Year celebration. Sacrificing beauty sleep and comfort, we-which would mean the 5 of us- had a neck-cramming journey to our grandparents' house which starts at 5 pm in the morning. Not that we really care anyway for we were still too dazed at the early hour to feel irritated. We hopped on the car and started off our journey with out maid crammed in you 5 seated car. C: We dropped her off at a toll for our uncle to fetch her to our grandparent's house. After she car-pooled at my uncle's car, we had more space and thus started our sleeping.... uh adventure?. C: That's the best time to travel honestly, with the sky still dark and the sun not up yet. I couldn't guarantee that I didn't snore but I am darn right Gie Mei slept with her mouth dangling open. I laid my head on my brother's shoulder and sometimes on the car's window's pane. Yeah, I can't believe I'm actually sleeping on his shoulder. He's grown so much already! At that moment, I wish time wouldn't pass so fast.It's making me nervous to think that at the next moment I could be in the examination hall doing my O level's papers. Let's stop at that and not spoil the CNY mood that i've been trying to keep up.C:
We stopped at Bidor and dined at a kopitiam. We ordered our must-eat-everytime-we-come-back-to-Ipoh Wantan noodles. And......... waited for 45 minutes for our 5 plate of noodle which we chow down in 5 minutes. No kidding! And kids don't try this at home. Warning: Choking Hazard.
When we reached our destination, the sight of my grandparents, especially my grandmother, made my heart skipped a beat. She looked so pale and sick with heavy eye bags which I later described her as an "albino needing sleep badly" to my cousin. It really rend my heart looking at her so frail. I hugged her lightly but my heart felt as heavy as lead. Tears threatened to flow out at that frozen moment.
We out everything from the car and placed them in our designated room.After that, I went to help out at the kitchen. My mum made me peel the potatoes and there I sat for 40 minutes *could be longer*. When my grandmother came to offer her help, all the women in the kitchen told her to not move around so much as her feet is swollen. It didn't made her feel any better when my mum asked her to peel potatoes with me at the dining hall. My grandmother needs to move around and feel useful. Right now she's feeling really useless and it's pulling her down. I told my mother about it but she said my granny has to get use to it in the future. I kept my silence at the truth of my mum's words but wouldn't allow myself to think more than that.
Perhaps to justify herself, she decided to test the water and guess what she did? She took the bike's keys and jab it into the initiator. My heart was beating wildly against my chest at that time. But my uncles and aunts were all calm. My head screamed " WHY AREN'T THEY DOING ANYTHING TO STOP HER?!?!" but no words came out. I rushed to my mum and told her that but she brushed me off lightly and told me to ask my dad to advise her. By the time I went to dad, she had already taken off, with the reason she's wants to buy something. I wasn't going to buy that and I didn't.
The time waiting for her to come back felt like light years. When the sound of her bike hit my eardrums, I felt as though the room had been lit up brighter and the birds had just started to sing again. Now i've learned how people felt like while waiting for someone you love to come back. Although I do not prefer it this way which concerns my grandmother.
I had a very deep conversation with my cousin, Bell. We concluded that we see our friends differently now. We both get pissed off when we hear our friends cursing their parents for being annoying and in some extreme cases " My mum's a bitch" or " My dad's a real asshole". It pains us to hear those words even if they do not concern us. There are MILLIONS of orphans out there,people! AND YOU HAVE BOTH YOUR DADDY AND MUMMY THAT DOTES ON YOU! IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP! I think life's too short to be pissed off at your colleagues, boss, parents, friends, teachers, classmates and whoever you can think of. If you're going to hate and bitch at everyone that tipped you off once, you're leading a SAD SAD life. Think of the children in Haiti. You're complaining that you're not getting the Converse shoes that your parents had promised you. The unfortunate kids at Haiti are not wearing shoes and not complaining about it. You're complaining that your parents aren't letting you out to have fun. The kids in Haiti have got no parents. People, treasure the people around you. You never know when they'll be gone.
"I complained about not having the pair of the latest pair of heels until I saw a man without feet"
Maybe time and death had really forced me to mature faster than I expected. If you hadn't said "I love you" to your loved ones, start now. Give your mum and dad a hug or kiss before it's too late.