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Mom is going back to BP this evening, and she is taking Ryan with her. This morning I received an e-mail from mom, because communicating face-to-face or talking on the phone is so passe.

Mom wrote:

Shi shang zhi you mama hao!!!!!!!!

Before we balik kampung, I’d stocked 2-3 meals in the freezer for you. The only worry is whether you’d know how to take them out and heat up or not?? Worse comes to worst, put in the microwave oven lah! You can eat the veggies with your maggi mee (that’d be for sure what you’d be consuming!!!!!)

I shouldn’t be worried and be taking care of you all the time, for you are well past 26 years old. Hao ming de hua is already a mother.

That reminds me of the story of a very lazy husband who has always been served by his wife. One day she wanted to go home (hui niang jia) so she prepared a lot of cookies for husband. Fearing he’d be too lazy to go to the kitchen, she stringed the cookies into a necklace and hung it on her husband’s neck.

After a week she came back and found him dead! Died of hunger! Turned out that he only ate the piece of cookie that was under his chin, and was too lazy to reach out for the others.

Moral of my story: Reach out for the food!!!”

I replied back, “OMG!” What? That was the only response I could give at that time. Can’t top her wit. What would you have replied?

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Added at 6.10 p.m.

Just got home to find this message stuck on the fridge:

“Got 2 boxes fish, 3 boxes vegies in freezer.

Cara mendapat ikan goreng sedap-sedap:
1. Take out, defrost
2. Heat kuali, no need oil as fried fish got oil, small the fire, put in fish and slowly fry it

Atau:

1. Put in oven, over moderate heat, bake 5-10 min

Cara mendapat ikan goreng tidak sedap:

1. Put in microwave oven.

🙂 ”

Mom's note

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  1. Reach out, do your bit. 🙂

  2. fireangel says

    LMAO! AUNTIE YOU’RE SO FUNNY!

  3. thank you for the plug suanie!

    HAHA YOUR MOTHER IS LIKE SO TOTALLY COOL. all my mom does when she writes emails (to my aunt in the US… and that’s it) is cry and say she misses her sister.

  4. I am dying of laughter . I thought my mom was funny but yours is funnier. Haha. I mean that in a good way.

  5. oh my gawd. i love both anecdote in the email and also the note on the fridge. but of course, you could always go to the nearest mamak for food. or call good ole food delivery 🙂

  6. I’d been hearing that story about the cookies on a string…

    ..longer than you’ve walked the earth?

  7. i doubt I’d make it past instruction #2 of the ikan sedap-sedap. haha

  8. ShadowFox says

    BN SUCK ON IT!!!!!!! Muahahaha! I just voted!

  9. “Hao ming de hua is already a mother.”

    Exactly what my mother would say… That is despite me living out of home for the past 6 years on a different continent, just because everytime she visited, I went from a self sufficient young adult to a pathetic SLOB.

    I mean, why live on my own mediocre (but sufficient) cooking while mum makes the best food ever? 😀

  10. Aww, your mom’s so funny!!

  11. standard phrase for all mums in BP?
    i seem to have heard that before. or variants of it.

    LOL

  12. lol your mom’s really cool!
    my mom still prefers talking on the phone or the webcam, probably because she wants to see me rolling my eyes during the convos haha.

  13. “Then one of the things that they recommended for me was to exercise. So I closed the window. ”

    LMAO. You’re so funny 😀

  14. You didn’t go back to vote?

  15. lmao ur mother is damn farnie . LOL. reach out for food. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

  16. Ur mum is so cute! lol!

  17. *hehe*

    the story about the cookie I heard was the other way ’round. Hubby went off and wife very lazy. And instead of many cookies, it was one big huge cookie tied around her neck. But “she” also died of hungry because she only ate the cookie part in front of her and never bothered to move the cookie.

    -____-

    Like that also can ah? Got lazy until that terra ker? 😛

  18. KY: done

    pinkpau: thanks for YOUR plugs 😉

    farah: she doesn’t like me consuming mamak food 😀

    suertes: ya you are just a couple years older than me lah

    eyeris: well, i succeeded!! used oven of course

    yan: THAT’S PRECISELY HOW I FEEL HAHAHHA why do things for myself when mom’s around 😉

    Simon: nope

    fer: hahahha who knows.. i am apt to do that

  19. farah hani qasyira says

    eii…….
    i want the meanings …..!!!!!!

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