A girl who loves chocolates, tomyam, spaghetti, shopping, travelling, photography, reading
Talks less but thinks more, or maybe more than you ever imagined....

thegirlnextDOOR

Speaking of her sometimes makes our whole family laugh, angry, fed-up or even disappointed.
Her existence somehow makes our whole family tensed up every now and then.
She loves to cook and sew.
She loves the pleasure of doing them in exchange for the children's smile.
She loves to make everyone at home feel at ease for her great dishes.
She loves to make her children feel at comfort with who she is.
She is at times the queen at home and sometimes the so-called pampered child.
She makes us worried frequently but she cheered up the house more frequent.
She wants the best for the Lee family.
She prays hard and sleeps less everyday.
She gets tired easily but never surrendered to her tiredness.
She makes the house feel crowded and merrier.
She does not want to be treated as the eldest.
She never failed to admit for being too old for doing all of 'em.

Had the sudden urge of writing something about granny. Today is a big day for my aunt a.k.a her daughter. A big day represents the birthday of any of granny's children regardless they are male or female. She treats them equally the same. My granny is a person who can be called the 'superwoman' in my house. The age does not mean anything to her as she can still manage to do a lot of things despite her age of 84 at the moment. It is really rare for such an elderly to be so energetic at such age. Thank God for the blessings You shower on her.

Granny always cook sumptuous meals for the whole family and also my dad's employees at the factory right behind our house. Today is my aunt's birthday, so to continue our house' past traditions, granny will prepare nice dishes for ALL of us. She had bought lots of vegies and chicken since few days ago and starting to marinate the chicken on Sunday. She is a very eager person. She wants to ensure that all of the food are adequate today so she had marinated up to 6kg chicken drumsticks+wings. She even did 'yong tau hu' and made satay sauce to match with the boiled eggs. Not just that, she even fried vermicelli and 'mi hun' to replace the plain rice.

She loves cooking! Although she gets tired easily, but she never complained. She simply enjoys the crowd when all of us are chatting and eating all along. She loves us to make the house a REAL home. And, there's a bad habit of hers. She loves yelling "Is it enough for the chicken, this and that..?" In her mind, the food laid on the table are never enough for us. She always asked us to eat more and will cook more if ain't enough. Also, she loves "tapao-ing" a.k.a packing up the food for her children/grandchildren who might not be able to join the big feast. She does not want to see any of us straving. Oh ya. She has the habit of picking up the phone and make a call to her son if she haven't seen him withing half an hour after the food is ready. She just want to see all of us eating at the round table which represents 'reunion'.

And, that's my beloved 84-year-old granny. She is getting older and currently has hearing difficulties. And that is why we tend to shout more towards her. This will aid her in listening to what we say. Time is passing by each day. Years go by just like the strike of lightning. Without noticing, she has already been doing all the cooking and sewing for decades. T

This is when CNY comes every year, I do not feel too much of anticipation. I hated to say that I prefer time to halt at certain times; time does not tickle by, age does not increase, life remains the same.