First and foremost, the key points;
1. Y tell about my grandma?
2. Born and bred- story in china
3. married and conceived
4. Inspirations - frugal, selfless, inner strength
5. In memoriam
1. I tell about my grandma because she has just deceased and I want to do her justice. I never knew much about her.
2. Born in Guangdong China, Kung Fu people eldest of 3 siblings, 2 younger brothers
married in CHina to grandpa, don;t know much about him
He left to Malaysia to find work as a goldsmith
3. She was left in China for a couple of years (married in the 40's) Wong Clan- in Guang Dong
4. Came to Malaysia at 28 years old, delivered my mum in 1952. (a very old age for a lady back then)
What I do not like about her ; her food, she always say her food is good, but she uses leftovers, sometimes stale, I develop an acute sense to weave out stale food from her.
My grandma is a lady of selfless predisposition. She always put others ahead of her. One time she cooked enough food for 5 of us, without knowing another grandson of her would come back. She made sure particularly that this other grandson gets his share of food even though other people will have to eat less.
My brothers and sometimes myself used to hate her. For her insouciant stubbornness. She make sure she does her job like waking us up and making us eat at certain hours, even at the point of annoyance but she would always remain calm and uncare like the weight of the world lay not on her but on someone else. Sometime we just know that it is ok for us to slack a bit by a couple of minutes but she remain steadfast with what she believes in.
Sigh, I will do her a big injustice if I present it unprepared.
During her last days, I tried to make sure I come home as much as I can. To talk to her for she's bored and immobilized. The worst thing about being old is being prisoned, in your own body; trapped and irreversible, it's a one-way street to absolution.
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