Thursday, June 30, 2005 ♥
Grandma back to America ♥ 1:11 PM
My grandma left for America today at 4 am in the morning *Yawn* I'm so proud of myself! I actually woke up so freaking early!(Cue: this is where you clap) When i reached the airport, i feel like a walking zombie and maybe that's why everybody kept looking at me... Bet they never saw such a pretty zombie before. Haha!
Anyway, i was a little reluctant to wake up in the morning despite my grandma futile attempts to get me out of bed.
Grandma: Qi lai le, kuai tian! (Wake up now, and hurry up!)
Me: Ummm... deng yi xia(wait a while)
Grandma: Kuai tian!( hurry up!)
Me: Aiya, wo bu yao chi le!(I don't want to go already!)
Grandma: (sound hurt) Ni bu shi sou yao pei wo tao fei zi chang chi( I thought you want to send me to the airport?)
Me:(feeling bad) Ok, you 10 mins call me up then i will get ready in 5 minutes.
I guess it was weird that i didn't really bother to send my grandma off. During the 30 minutes car ride to the airport, i kept thinking about why i don't feel sad at all. I should me right? I mean its my grandmum! Even if i send off my friends or church members, i would feel like crying but why i'm void of emotions now? Even after i sent my grandma off, i was still thinking. Then when i was about to collapse into my bed then it dawned on me that it was just simply not closa to my grandmother.
You see, the longest stay that i had with her was probably 2 weeks and that was when i visited her in America last November. When she comes to Singapore, she will just stay for a few days before going to Malaysia. Besides that, i never had the privilege to have her take care of me when i was young because unlike the rest of my cousins whose mothers need to work mine decided to be a homemaker. Not that i'm unhappy about that. My Mom and Dad always spend a lot of time with me so i can't really complain, can i? You can't have everything.
BUT,i didn't know how to speak Cantonese until i was like 12 years old? Even then, my cantonese is not fluent. But hey! I learnt from those cantonese serial shows so i guess i'm not that bad after all. Why was i taking so much trouble to learn that language which practically no teenager in their sane mind will learn? Well, i was trying to be able to communicate with her but the ironic thing is that nobody, i mean nobody in my family believes me. Even up to now when i insist that my grandma speak to me in Cantonese, she simply brush it off and laugh.
Well, since nobody believes that i can speak Cantonese, then let it be. Maybe, one day when somebody is sharing a secret, and using Cantonese THINKING that i don't understand, then i shall have the last laugh.. Ha!
♥ Princess Serene
