I recall a fellow Malaysian student at Nagoya University who took pride in saying that he is, well, the KOCSM...
I will not challenge him for the crown, but yesterday, I moved in lightning fast speed to organize a birthday lunch for my aging, ailing, and wheel-chaired bound mother…
As I walked into the restaurant, I was perplexed to see a handful of young kids, sitting at the table reserved for us…
I was like, hey, what’s this…
Then, it dawn upon me that they are the daughters and sons of my nieces…
Which makes me a, what… grand-uncle? No?
Minutes later, the familiar faces of my nieces and nephews surfaced…
Some of the unmarried but about to be married ones look really smart…
Chic… pretty… attractive…
I don’t get much opportunity to see them…
The obvious reasons being, communication problem…
I can’t speak Mandarin… poor me…
And they cannot really speak English…
Our dialects are different too…
So there I was, tongue tied and struggling as to what to say to them…
Which got me into thinking that I should really, really be picking up Mandarin…
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