Thursday, May 22, 2008

my aunt!

I came home from work today to find my aunt missing,

so i asked my mom, "姨妈在哪里?"

"Oh,在你床上睡觉,hahahahhaha"

"SMRJRPJ~!?"

"Hahahhahahaha"

My immediate thought was how inconvenient it would be for me to take off my jeans (i normally just strip in my own room), and how shes going to dirty my bed (my bed is sacred to me).

I wanted to rage. She had her own bed.

I didn't.

Heres why:

When i was young, my mom was working, therefore she asked my aunt to take care of me when i was a baby. There was a family joke for a while when i was under twelve years old. I was called "ahlulu" because my ability to down milk as a baby. It was said that the normal nipple tip of a milk bottle cap was not big enough to sate my thirst, my aunt actually cut a bigger hole for me.

So.... ahlulu was my nickname. I didn't like the nickname, therefore i didn't like her >: [

So being the arrogant asshat that i was, i called her a "chicken byebye"

I thought I was a genius, they wouldn't know my hidden insult, turns out they(i said that in front of her family) weren't dumb, i was no genius either.

She didn't reprimand me, but i recalled that she appeared saddened by it.

I didn't feel great about myself too. Asshats have genuine human feelings too, okay.

Over the years, she seemed to have forgotten about it, i saw her again, at a cousin's wedding. Some uncle was passing out cheques from the sale of my late grandmother's properties, when my uncle passed this particular aunt her share, she cried and rejected it, i don't know why, but i had the smarts to not ask out loud there and then.

Later on, i found out that she loaned money from the uncle to pay for the education of her three grown children. She worked in Singapore as a nanny to support her children, even then it was not enough. I was also told her husband does not work much back in her town.

I had a new found respect for the woman.

I didn't yell at her, i walked into my room silently, placed my belongings down on the table beside my bed.

And i woke her up, what a dumb ass.

"豪,你做完工了啊?"

"uh, 你继续睡lo"

"躺躺而已"

I turn on my computer and asked if she wanted some music, she declined and i walked out with my pants for change.



She probably treats me like one of her sons.

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