happy birthday, Mummy!

the date : 5th July 2008 (her d.o.b:5.7.1949)

since this a tribute to my precious mummy, im gna write in her favourite colour..RED..
last saturday marked my mothers 59th birthday, it also marked my 1st year anniversary as a practising lawyer, my 1st day as a tutor and it was the 1st time i finally got to meet uncle kenny, spent time with most of the harding sisters n brothers (to date i stil havent met uncle tony).

on saturday was also a day of reminiscing for my mom. stories of her childhood was still afresh in her mind of her days spent with her 11 cousins, the time she spent with my arwah grandma (nana dott, tho i've never had the chance to ever call u granny or met u, your memories and the stories mummy and all told me bout falls nothing short of a great loving lady, wife and mother, al-fatihah), how my tok mail was the gentlemen of his era, how my dad 'pursued' my mom, how they partied like there's no tmrw (ok, im exxagerating a bit here)...

wad struck me was, the stories they shared was amazing but i never got the chance to have that wth my cousins..i on the oher hand had spent with my 'other' cousins who had in fact treated me like 2nd class citizen, having gritted my teeth every now n then for how their mothers n fathers had treated my mother..all out of respect for the elderly..wad i dun get is that y didnt my mom brought me to spend time with these cousins other that for christmas but with the 'other' cousins it was a every other day affair :(

last saturday she was indeed treated like part of the family n is loved by them, and it was all natural..no fakeness at all...we all felt invited..

thank you uncles and aunties and cousins for making my mom's birthday this year a memorable one, i hope we wont wait the next christmas to meet or the next 25 years...

nana dott, tok mail, long, aunty sarah, uncle ahmad jaafar, uncle ka'ai, nenek (al-fatihah)..nana madge (may God bless u)

sasha