N U R S A F I A H

Wednesday, April 27, 2005/

The People In My Life @ 10:30 pm

My grandmother on my father's side just visited me last Sunday. Guess where she lives? Chua Chu Kang. But before my house she goes to Geylang and shops for things that can only be found in Geylang and not anywhere else. She goes through the long duration of riding a bus and MRT. She travels alone. She likes to. I have that streak in me. I like to be alone. Travel alone. Go shopping alone. It's just more convenient and you can do anything you want. Even though she's old, she has the strength to travel. I'm proud of her. I love her so much. She knows we are so busy that we can't visit her and because the distance between us is so great, she visits us instead. How many people are that lucky? I always pray that nothing happens to her when she travels. My grandfather, her husband, passed away when I was young. Maybe that is why she travels alone?

Anyway on that Sunday, my father just came back from work so naturally he was fast and sound asleep. I just came back from a visit to the library after religious classes. When I reached home, I saw a lady standing outside my door. At first I thought she was my mother so I called out,"Mak?". The Lady turned around. "Eh, Tok!" It was my grandmother. She was holding my house keys. I thought she wanted to come in but she in fact wanted to leave. Since I had arrived, she went in again. I saw that she had brought her usual buah tangan with her- fruits. She also bought murtabak YUM and lots more. Then we talked. She said she called out me and my lil bro's name but no one replied so she let herself in. She saw that my bapak was fast asleep and she knew he just came back from work. She forbid me to wake him up. Such was a mother's love for her son. I was deeply moved. Then we talked about my cousins who lives with her. Comical stories so hilarious, I laughed with my grandmother. Then she left. She said she wanted to visit my auntie's house who live around the area too. Her memory is quite good. I love my grandmother. I love my Tok Limah. I call my grandmother Tok even though in malay, Tok is for grandfather. It's just a tradition. I have a very big famil but sadly, I don't know them much. I mean about my second cousins, third, and so on...grand-aunties, grand-uncles. Oh how I would love to get to know them.

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I love my netball team. Mumu, me and her exchanging info abt our crushes, telling each otr wen we see them...hehex. Wei Shan, telling ppl to go and die so that she can rule the world, putting suggestive ideas into ppl's heads. But how to rule the world when there's no one in it? Fadilah and her bickerings, telling me how idiotic I look, how patheticy i passed the ball though all in a joking fashion. Yasmin and her constant whinings, Oh...the sun so hot!!! Charis and her gossips. Geraldine and her commanding orders mixed with her cute 'oh no!'s. Charlene, sometimes sad but when she is happy, she has a nice smile. :) Sharon...so lonely. Jessie so quiet. Sylviane, her jumpiness hehex....SpRoIng!

*poof*

a lyfe* like mine-; 10:30 pm