Dedicated to My Mother

My mother with my sister, Iriene

Asian mothers, particularly the Chinese, do not show affection of love openly.

The same goes for my mother.

I must confess that mothers can be temperamental and moody.

But know in their hearts, they have undying love for their children.

When a child reach out for help, a mother will do whatever she could.

I remembered clearly that she took the trouble after doing her daily rubber tapping chore to go to town (6 miles away) to withdraw some money from her post office savings account  when I was in need of money in faraway Georgetown.

To this day, at 81 years old, she still remembered my Chinese calendar birthday, never forgetting to give me my RM 20 ang pow.

In fact, during the last Chinese New Year, I was talking to my son and he brought home the point that the most precious ang pow ever  came from none other than my mother for she is not earning at all nor is she getting any government support and she gave out ever so generously a tidy sum to both my children.

That is the heart of my mother.

May God bless her with good health and protect her.