A phone call..

It is amazing how technology helps you stay close to your family with just a phone call. I have been dreading to call my mom for couple of weeks considering that we cannot visit her during the long holidays – the weather is bad, nabilah has to attend classes, DH’s exam in Kemaman. The latest news DH’s dinner with SDARA Alumni on Saturday night! Ada ke patut.. buat le time lain yg org takde cuti panjang. I just hope I can attend my Alumni’s dinner next year (tahun ni dh lepas and I did not go because it’s pricey – RM100 for a dinner that we don’t actually eat because we’ll be too busy talking and mocking each other while dinner is on).

Anyway, I have spoken to my mom and she’s fine. Alhamdulillah. But she’s not over with my late dad’s second wife actions – this time the lady took half of my late dad’s pension money. So mak cuma dapat separuh because that woman claimed another half (and she already got a whole lot of pension money from her late 1^st husband, a grocery shop, lands etc – she IS a wicked woman after all). My family story has become like a drama plot. Adakah ini akibat daripada selalu tengok drama Melayu yg penuh sandiwara itu? Entah ler.. and my mom decided there will be no 100-day kenduri arwah because she felt that the other ‘wicked’ wife should throw a 100-day feast for stolen the pension money. So, after the land titles are settled, we will only have ‘thanksgiving’ feast for the whole village. Btw, the aunts and uncles from my late dad’s side have not shown their faces at my mom’s house since the funeral day. Do I still call them my family? I doubt it now.

This Saturday will be my Mom’s 62^nd birthday – gonna buy her some books to read to pass the time at home, and MPH is having a 20% sale at Alamanda Courtyard. Or should I buy her a magazine subscription instead? After all, she likes to stay at home and work in her garden.

Have a blast Tuesday!