Recently my mum told me that her sister appeared on the chinese newspaper. After reading it, i am so proud and touched by the article.
In my mum family side, there are 8 daughters and 3 sons with my mum being the youngest of all. My mum lost her mum when she was young, when they shifted out from Kampong and moved to HBD. She had to moved to various sister's house to stay over, luckily they didn't mind and my mum helped to babysit my cousins as well. However, ultimately that was not her home even though she was welcomed to stay.
We were poor when we are young, my dad did not earn much and had to work 2 jobs in order to struggle by. My aunts would pass down their children's clothes, books, bag or bring food and drinks over to our house. Especially my 2nd aunt that appeared in the papers. She has a caring personality with a loud voice that can be heard miles away haha! In my old flat, we stayed near to the end of 5th floor whereas the lift is on the 6th floor in middle of flat. I never failed to recognise her voice from the lift and we will open the door before she even reach our house lol!
She has been working at the school for as long as i remembered and like us she was also struggling to raise up her 2 kids by herself especially when her husband passed away due to cancer. She would bring food and gave us money even though my mum refused to take it. Thereafter, they would start to quarrel and push the money back and fro while i be waiting for whom will emerge victory. Those were the days with all the memories rushing back to my mind when i read the article and how much hardship my aunt overcome to raise her kids up.
Even till now, she insisted to send me to the airport when i was leaving to Japan even when she had swollen ankles and could not walk much. In midst of my farewell, she started to tear and so did i and the rest that came to send me off. My mum told me that my aunt will be operating her leg next year and hoping that she can visit me in Japan.
er yi, pls take good care of yourself and after you recovered from your surgery, you can come anytime with my mum to visit me.
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