Selamat Hari Ibu

I never celebrated this special day until I got married. I’m not against it but org kampung like me never bother this kind of event. There are many times I forget my late mom, but she’s always in my memories. Every single time I miss her, tears streaming down my face and I’ll be having a good cry. It’s quite sad because my wife wasn’t able to meet her. I used to tell how great she was and how I was pampered by her. She never forgot to bring my own plate and cup to the wedding [aku dulu lebih hygiene dr siput] and I just kissed her whenever I felt like doing it. It was hard for her to get mad at me. One kiss from me would melt her heart. I always on the winning side when I got in a fight with my sisters or brothers.

Luckily I married to the eldest in the family else she would say how spoilt I was. Huhu. A few days ago, when I was on the phone with mel, she asked me to send sms to her mom to wish “selamat hari ibu”. It took me sometimes what to write. If I remember quite well, it goes like this “Selamat Hari Ibu, semoga panjang umur dan dapat beramal ibadat selalu”. It was short and sweet isn’t it? Haha. Then there was a long reply from her. I’m still keeping it. here it goes

MIL: T. kasih Maaf mama baru buka telefon. Pagi tadi sebok masak awal sbb nak pergi kenduri marhaban dua rumah. Sehat? Hai bila den nak dapat cucu lagi ni? Salam dari mama dan ayah.

As expected, there must be a word “cucu”. One seems not enough. My sister in law just had a baby boy. After 5 years of waiting from us, alas they got one from zura (mel’s sister). Mel was excited too. One of the reasons why she flew back to KL :P. Everybody knows how lucky to be 1^st cucu. You’ll be getting anything you want. If your parents can’t afford it, most likely you’ll be getting it from your atok and nenek. There will be high expectation on you and you could be spoilt too. I’m speaking on mel’s behalf. Haha

Then I replied to MIL again, I told her to have fun with the 1^st one and as normal human being, it’s quite hard to be fair. Of course I ended it with “gurau jer”. Then she replied with a longgggg one. She said she was excited and can’t wait to have more, then told about my FIL calling their cucu every day. It’s pretty normal because we will come to that age and we’ll have the same feeling. This cycle applies to everybody before we die.

It won’t take long. If you happen to live in KL, you noticed that your life have gone just so fast. Ten years back when a small kid looking at you, they called you abang or kakak, but now they will call you Pakcik or Makcik. To make it sounds nicer, they call you ‘uncle’ or 'untie' (Aunty). It doesn’t make any difference, it just that the second one sounds orang putih :P I believe most of us have so many things left to do. We don’t have much time and most probably we’ll be dead before we know it. Please make sure, you get some time with God OK :-)

p/s: I don’t really know how to end this and it always dead comes to my mind.

Acronym: MIL (monster-in-law..eh silap mother-in-law) FIL (Father-In-Law)