A Tribute
13 May
She makes me sleep in backpacker dorms then makes herbal soup, chicken rice and dumplings for the other travellers, and screams about how I’m wasting the day by sleeping too much at 7 in the morning. She walks way too fast for me to catch up, and knows every country’s public bus and train system by heart. She tells me things like “try walking downhill.. backwards, it helps”. She falls asleep reading my articles and doesn’t like rock music, but she still tries to read me (and this blog) and goes to my brother’s concerts with tissue paper stuffed in her ears. She calmly explains to relatives that “Adri’s blog is where… she posts pictures of herself and then people post weird comments about how they love her”, so sometimes I wonder if she’s reading someone else. She introduces me to my ex’s classmates from the med school, even though I’ve never met them and I don’t want to know how she did. She talks about what she wants to eat for dinner after lunch and makes lunch appointments with us for next next month. She still can’t pronounce my girlfriend’s name and calls her _yeti_ (hopefully without deliberate reference to “Abominable Snowmen”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti), makes her _teh tarik_ so she won’t leave me, and although these days she can’t stop talking about how fat I’ve become, she’s still the coolest mum.
Happy mother’s day!
P.S. I’m pretty sure you’re my mother, though you’re currently having doubts, now that everyone around you is telling you I look 100% Thai.
