Mother's day tribute
indeed it may be 5:15pm on a saturday where i am, but as far as im concerned in Singapore it's the dawn of yet another mother's day.
So what's mother's day to you? Well i guess its very much one of those days where we take the initiative (after much nudging by subversive advertising) to buy something nice for our one and only mothers: maybe a nice card, a bouquet of flowers, high tea at some posh restaurant, or just a simple cake or even a $50 metro shopping voucher (not that i've done that).
Yet commercialised as it is, i still think it better to have mother's day, than none at all. At least now, we actually do panic and think "oh crap, i need to get something for my mom..." like as if she had a second birthday, where you gave her some sort of performance bonus in the forms of various rewards. Yet from the parental perspective, sometimes on mother's day just a day of peace and not having to run the household with clockwork efficiency is enough.
My mother's never asked for much from me on mothers day, or any other time really. She's only asked me to be the best i can be. Perhaps then living for the best future i can hope to have would be the best mother's day present i can ever hope to give her (even though this is easier said than done).
For those of you that haven't quite remembered that its mother's day today (or at until u read this entry) i think a little time spent in conversation with your mother would be a good thing: at least let her know that in the whole hectic chaos that your life's become, she's still part of that little shut out microcosm of a world that you exist in. I unfortunately will not be able to celebrate the day with her: i will spend the day in the air, waiting for my plane to land back in home sweet singapore on monday morning.
It's not a bad thing though, that i'm missing the opportunity to spend a special day with her. At least she knows (i think) that i do love her very much, and perhaps thats what all mothers ever really want from us.
Happy mother's day AhMua. I'll save the chinese proverbs for when i get back.
So what's mother's day to you? Well i guess its very much one of those days where we take the initiative (after much nudging by subversive advertising) to buy something nice for our one and only mothers: maybe a nice card, a bouquet of flowers, high tea at some posh restaurant, or just a simple cake or even a $50 metro shopping voucher (not that i've done that).
Yet commercialised as it is, i still think it better to have mother's day, than none at all. At least now, we actually do panic and think "oh crap, i need to get something for my mom..." like as if she had a second birthday, where you gave her some sort of performance bonus in the forms of various rewards. Yet from the parental perspective, sometimes on mother's day just a day of peace and not having to run the household with clockwork efficiency is enough.
My mother's never asked for much from me on mothers day, or any other time really. She's only asked me to be the best i can be. Perhaps then living for the best future i can hope to have would be the best mother's day present i can ever hope to give her (even though this is easier said than done).
For those of you that haven't quite remembered that its mother's day today (or at until u read this entry) i think a little time spent in conversation with your mother would be a good thing: at least let her know that in the whole hectic chaos that your life's become, she's still part of that little shut out microcosm of a world that you exist in. I unfortunately will not be able to celebrate the day with her: i will spend the day in the air, waiting for my plane to land back in home sweet singapore on monday morning.
It's not a bad thing though, that i'm missing the opportunity to spend a special day with her. At least she knows (i think) that i do love her very much, and perhaps thats what all mothers ever really want from us.
Happy mother's day AhMua. I'll save the chinese proverbs for when i get back.
posted by Kinfoong at 5:15 PM
3 Comments:
Is that Singapore or
Berkeley?
berkeley
I like the photo. It makes me smile.
Shan
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