The boy, the man
A boy, a man,
His mum taught the boy how to place a Chinese bowl of rice for his father.
Out of the 11 years, the boy only had the chance to serve his father for not more than 5.5 years.
One night in 1971, the boy cried loud, 'Who is buying rice ?'
The never-go-to-school mum feed her 4 sons on interests and dividends as unemployed housewife till the youngest reached age 21. The boy in this context is the 3rd.
Her mum got Senator Chua's recommendation for the boy who became a young man to get tertiary education when he failed his General Paper.
Sometime after the young man started working he landed in KK. One evening after sunset before dusk, he 'saw' his mum face in the sky while scooping a spoon of rice into his mouth.
It was just like telepathy, the sky impression of a mum who miss her children. It was a day in 1987.
Quickly the young man flew for 2 hours to be with her mum. He worked hard. He was in office before sunrise. He was still in office when the nightly twinkle twinkle little stars were cheering. Hardly he had lunch at home with his mum. His work created that.
One day he went home at about 2.30 pm for lunch. He saw his mum used her right elbow to press on the table as her right leg became paralysed.
The former Director of GH told me, 'Someone must watch on her fulltime. You can't with your work type.' The doctor clinic was two doors away from her son office. It was 1988.
Years later, the young man wife chose her mum against a special adjustment of $500 to his monthly pay in the city. He knew money cannot buy mother and returned to find another work in his town. Both earned 15 years of motherly love that ended in 2010.
Reunion dinner is a love drawing all family members back home. Nian Ye Fan is the biggest event if you are a Chinese. The boy couldn't enjoyed the wholesome joy of such dinner after 1971. The boy could only continued to have such dinner of partial joy with his mum till 1988.
Remember to go back home for reunion dinner.
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