RAEVILLE

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Mum and I were walking up this hill, somewhere in what looked like Petaling St or somewhere much dodgier than this. There were cars, giraffes even, rolling down the hill and it made it difficult for us to cross the road. We kept moving forward, and at the sight of a large animal on the road closing in on us, we moved backwards. To and fro. To and fro.

Where we were going, I didn't seem to know.

Mum said something about a dog, and how it was the most friendliest dog in town. She opened this gate, rusted and with the paint peeling off, and there it was, the most friendliest dog in town in the middle of what looked to me like a large open space, like the ones you see in the zoo where the animals are for show. However, this was no new and brand open space. It was dodgy. Let's say, super dodgy. The grass had over grown in large patches around the space, and there was a slide and a water hole where a sink sat above it, all of which had paint peeling off it's surface and weeds growing all around them. One may wonder, what is the most friendliest dog in the town doing in such an appalling environment.

I fed the dog some of my tasty tuna, which had chunks of chicken in, using my portable chopsticks. The dog was reluctant, but soon succumbed to the strange concucted food. Mum called over to me and told me to hurry up. "Stop feeding the dog with your chopsticks, eww!" said Mum. I hurried over to the danky sink and washed my bowl and chopsticks, and went back to the little dog. Which was black.

My phone began to ring. It was my Uncle Caesar, who I knew was caling about my cousin Ji-Shen's enquiry about switching your mobile phone to international roaming. I picked up, and heard a "Hello". It didn't sound like Uncle Cae; it sounded like my Dad.

I woke up to the sound of Katamari's Overture on my mobile phone, buzzzzzzing away under my pillow, my head. I miss mum.

I've had my bad days with mum, but we just let it go. I miss going out and about with her, ranting in the car about people, things, news, happenings, future plans - "Shit, how am I going to fit so many people in our tiny little apartment for Christmas?! Should I even have a party or what?!" And I would advise her all the time, "Maa, just invite Kao Fu (uncle) to help out with cooking and you just invite those who we REALLY want to come, you know?" :) She would just say, "Oh right." Shopping for things we know we can't afford, like swanky, shiny watches; the latest Sony Ericsson mobile phones; brand new laptops; cool little gadgets. And on some of those days, we'd somehow find a way to buy one of them, while window shopping. And on those days, we'd laugh about it. I miss the way mum talks sense into me, especially when it comes to University stuff. I tell her I want to enter the Bachelor of Fine Arts course; she says what's the point of learning how to use a camera at Uni, when you can learn it for so much less outside of Uni. It can put me off a bit, but she kicks the right senses in. I miss her rambling and complaining about things, people, happenings - "Aiyoooo, Rae" she would say. "Pi just poo-ed on the carpet again, tore up the papers and vomitted on the kitchen floormat!!!" (Pi = our old mini Schnauzer)

Now, Mum's been looking for tuition teachers back home for me to have during the holidays. She's been helping me organise my early 18th birthday party at The Telawi Street Bistro (TSB). She recently DHLed me the English translation of the driving curriculum book and all the stuff I need to study before returning home to take the theory exam for driving.

Cheesy as this may sound, I am so fortunate to have such a great mum. And ohhh how I miss her!

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Saturday afternoon, I went to meet up with my KL friends, Ki-Hyuk, who I haven't seen in almost more than a year, and Ray. We walked around. Talked a lot. Caught up with lots of things. It was all good fun. Returned back to the boarding house and caught up with (no, not my history and english homework) Season 2 of Grey's Anatomy. And what a great day that was :)

Cheerssss!

Labels: family, homesick

& turned on the lights; 06:56

about me.

raelene. rae. roro.
eighteen years.
malaysian.
completed her final year of school at st caths, sydney.
is a musician, photographer and aspiring designer.
loves travelling, art, music, great food, clear blue skies, writing and ice-cream.
enjoys drowning in music, strumming random chords on the guitar, playing tennis,
finger-bashing it out on a game console and a bowl of curry laksa.
despises bad traffic, girls with long and fair faces with large contact-lensed eyes, bad food, mascara goop, hard pillows and hard beds.

raeville.

RAEVILLE came about some time in the year of 2001. or 2002. it's been so long that i've forgotten already.
it all started here (i doubt the link works anymore though), in a dodgy little blog page. then it moved to here. a year later, and we moved to better things, namely blogspot.

ps. raeville is best viewed on mozilla firefox. just because it's better :)

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