Staying at grandma's tonight and it's kind of nostalgic. A kind of bittersweet feeling.
Perhaps a little background story. Every Saturday, my mum and I will stay over at my grandma's house (she lives with my 3 other aunts), and then we will go to church the following day together. We have been doing this since forever (since I was born perhaps), and it's pretty hard to break this tradition. Mum and family gets very upset and starts scolding me whenever I have events on Saturday or whenever I go home late on Saturdays.
I used to love staying at grandma's house, because it's the only time I get to watch cableTV, or rather, SCV (the old name for StarHub's cableTV before they changed its name LOL) do you all remember?? The channels were then called 55 (changed to 855), 56 (856 has ceased to exist) etc. And back then, we do not have mioTV or SCV at home, so it's a huge joy to be able to enjoy free entertainment at grandma's.
Also, I get to play my beloved MapleStory or AuditionSEA at their house because the connection at my house sucks LOLLLL stupid dial-up connection in the old days (more about my addiction with computer games another time), and I get to use MSN and chit-chat with my friends (LOL I LOVE MSN. Poor kids in the 21st century who do not know who MSN works)!!!!!! My dad refused to let me download MSN on his laopok laptop until I got mine when I was in Sec2.
During the holidays in primary school and my lower secondary school days, I'll stay there even during the week days because of the above said perks and because I loved to spend time with ah mah. She would cook me my favourite fried rice (till this day, nobody has ever managed to cook the fried rice the same way as hers), and we would head down to the mamak shop for ice-cream etc. It was fun. I simply loved staying there.
And soon, came my upper secondary school days and JC days. I dreaded (and dread) every weekend because I'd rather stay at home. At home, I have access to more stuff, and I do not need to lug my homework and laptop to their house. I get to sleep later, and I get to sleep on a proper bed (sleep on dilam at their house). Also, we have MioTV now. I just do not see any reason in going there to stay over anymore. It became more like a repetitive chore instead of something that I'll enjoy doing.
LOL WTH just made a hole in my keyboard protector time to get a new one.
Anyway, yeah. Most of my childhood holidays are spent in this house, and I'm back here tonight because my grandma isn't in a good condition these days. Her dementia has gotten much worse and now, she thinks I'm her youngest daughter wth. She calls me by my youngest aunt's name, and she's always looking for her parents and younger brother or elder sister and when we tell her they have long passed away, she starts crying and say nobody loves her. She has been acting like a little kid recently and she doesn't even have strength to walk or speak properly. I't's really tough and trying to look after her and I am so damn afraid that my parents would become like her someday. My parents aren't young but I'm still young. How on earth will I be able to look after them alone?? And I think of the high possibility that I might get dementia in the future too because I tend to be extremely forgetful, and I think of the high chance of me being single for life, which means no kids, which means nobody to take care of me if I have dementia.
Mum is hell afraid of grandma passing on this year because the signs aren't good lately. Ah mah has been seeing things (spirits, perhaps), or maybe it's just her own imagination wth. She asked my aunt why was there an old man following her that day wth my aunt legit got a shock of her life HAHAHA.
Actually quite entertaining lah when you hear some of the ridiculous stuff my grandma says. Because it's really damn imaginative and so ridiculous until it's hilarious. I guess you can look at things from two sides. You can take things light-heartedly, like me, and laugh. Or you can take things with too much burden, like my mum, and be uptight over every single thing.
Random story that my aunt told us that day. She was recalling of the time when my ah mah was around 60+ years old and had to go for a CT scan. Halfway through the scan, the machine was faulty, so the nurses/doctor yelled CANCEL CANCEL!! My grandma heard it as CANCER CANCER!! And she exclaimed OH SI LIAO!! CANCER!! HAHHA miscommunication in the funniest way ever. We laughed while listening to this story.
Wow long post sia. Never expected to pour out so much stuff. Just hope that grandma will be ok tomorrow and won't cry and start looking for her parents again.
Perhaps a little background story. Every Saturday, my mum and I will stay over at my grandma's house (she lives with my 3 other aunts), and then we will go to church the following day together. We have been doing this since forever (since I was born perhaps), and it's pretty hard to break this tradition. Mum and family gets very upset and starts scolding me whenever I have events on Saturday or whenever I go home late on Saturdays.
I used to love staying at grandma's house, because it's the only time I get to watch cableTV, or rather, SCV (the old name for StarHub's cableTV before they changed its name LOL) do you all remember?? The channels were then called 55 (changed to 855), 56 (856 has ceased to exist) etc. And back then, we do not have mioTV or SCV at home, so it's a huge joy to be able to enjoy free entertainment at grandma's.
Also, I get to play my beloved MapleStory or AuditionSEA at their house because the connection at my house sucks LOLLLL stupid dial-up connection in the old days (more about my addiction with computer games another time), and I get to use MSN and chit-chat with my friends (LOL I LOVE MSN. Poor kids in the 21st century who do not know who MSN works)!!!!!! My dad refused to let me download MSN on his laopok laptop until I got mine when I was in Sec2.
During the holidays in primary school and my lower secondary school days, I'll stay there even during the week days because of the above said perks and because I loved to spend time with ah mah. She would cook me my favourite fried rice (till this day, nobody has ever managed to cook the fried rice the same way as hers), and we would head down to the mamak shop for ice-cream etc. It was fun. I simply loved staying there.
And soon, came my upper secondary school days and JC days. I dreaded (and dread) every weekend because I'd rather stay at home. At home, I have access to more stuff, and I do not need to lug my homework and laptop to their house. I get to sleep later, and I get to sleep on a proper bed (sleep on dilam at their house). Also, we have MioTV now. I just do not see any reason in going there to stay over anymore. It became more like a repetitive chore instead of something that I'll enjoy doing.
LOL WTH just made a hole in my keyboard protector time to get a new one.
Anyway, yeah. Most of my childhood holidays are spent in this house, and I'm back here tonight because my grandma isn't in a good condition these days. Her dementia has gotten much worse and now, she thinks I'm her youngest daughter wth. She calls me by my youngest aunt's name, and she's always looking for her parents and younger brother or elder sister and when we tell her they have long passed away, she starts crying and say nobody loves her. She has been acting like a little kid recently and she doesn't even have strength to walk or speak properly. I't's really tough and trying to look after her and I am so damn afraid that my parents would become like her someday. My parents aren't young but I'm still young. How on earth will I be able to look after them alone?? And I think of the high possibility that I might get dementia in the future too because I tend to be extremely forgetful, and I think of the high chance of me being single for life, which means no kids, which means nobody to take care of me if I have dementia.
Mum is hell afraid of grandma passing on this year because the signs aren't good lately. Ah mah has been seeing things (spirits, perhaps), or maybe it's just her own imagination wth. She asked my aunt why was there an old man following her that day wth my aunt legit got a shock of her life HAHAHA.
Actually quite entertaining lah when you hear some of the ridiculous stuff my grandma says. Because it's really damn imaginative and so ridiculous until it's hilarious. I guess you can look at things from two sides. You can take things light-heartedly, like me, and laugh. Or you can take things with too much burden, like my mum, and be uptight over every single thing.
Random story that my aunt told us that day. She was recalling of the time when my ah mah was around 60+ years old and had to go for a CT scan. Halfway through the scan, the machine was faulty, so the nurses/doctor yelled CANCEL CANCEL!! My grandma heard it as CANCER CANCER!! And she exclaimed OH SI LIAO!! CANCER!! HAHHA miscommunication in the funniest way ever. We laughed while listening to this story.
Wow long post sia. Never expected to pour out so much stuff. Just hope that grandma will be ok tomorrow and won't cry and start looking for her parents again.
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