Friday, June 18, 2010

Day 4: Staying Home + Toy Story 3

My parents aren't educated or well to do and have only enough to spend on food and an occassional escape to Malaysia (for mum. Dad rather stays at home).

Now that we are grown ups and have earning power to spend, bro decided to get them a new TV coz the one they have now is no longer working properly (picture is distorted) but as he expected, my parents were not happy that he bought a new TV even though he meant well. -_________-". Dad's strongly negative reaction was discouraging but guess bro is used to it. Dad askd him to put the new TV in his own room (42" in a tiny room??? It was just to spite my bro, for some wierd reasons).

Took almost an hour of explaining to my dad that even if he could get this old TV fixed for this problem, we cannot be sure there will not be problems with other TV parts. Its afterall a 6 yrs old TV and repair cost is very likely to exceed the cost of this new TV because u never know how much repairs to this old TV we have to make to get it operating normally for long enough. The new TV has a 3 yr warranty period, by the way.

So he finally agreed and arranged for the new TV to replace another old TV on their console (there are now 2 old TVS and one doesn't work at all but they couldn't bear to dump it for the past 2 yrs).

Mum was the same this morning when dad told her bro got a new TV which will be sent on Monday. She blamed bro for spending unnecessarily and I had to spend another hour explaining to her the same thing -____-"

Then when dad realised there will not be anyone at home on Mon to receive the TV other than himself, he got grumpy and insisted he will not understand when the technicians teach him how to use the remote controller, even though we told him he need not understand coz we will know how to use it. TV controllers are all the same... but he wasn't ready to accept it and insisted my bro arrange to be home. We will not be able to because we will be meeting Edwin to discuss the details of our Reno, and mum stubbornly refuse to be at home even though she need not have to go out at all... Wah...kaoz.... It's hard to please 2 old and stubborn people.

Mum promised to bring AN out if it didn't rain but also made my dad stay at home for lunch. Dad liked to lunch out but coz mum said she will be cooking for AN anyway, he stayed home. Jus because Mr Liow casually asked if mum would be taking AN out (so that we can plan to settle some admin issues for ourselves) and mum said yes, dad assumed mum decided not to cook and he got upset. Mum too got upset because she DID intend to cook but it was too early to, besides dad had breakfast not less than an hour ago.

It was a case of miscommunication but then again, my parents never communicated. Everyday, there'll be frictions due to misunderstood intentions and then everyone will be unhappy.

Now porridge is ready and mum is hiding in the room to spite dad (and maybe me because I simply said they should talk to each other and she thinks I'm siding my dad.......). Nothing else, except porridge. So is this lunch, or...? Mum came out to tell dad off for hurrying her into making lunch and told him to go eat since he was 'hungry' so early (dad wasn't hungry when they had that arguement. He only thought she decided not to cook after she made him stay home when he wanted to go out.)

Dad silently sprinkled soya sauce on his porridge and said it was ok and that they eat very simply for lunch. I asked Mr Liow to pack some dishes back but my dad decided plain porridge was good enough. Erm...

AN can have her pork/fish/chicken floss with the porridge but I would prefer in addition. Before we came back, mum kept assuming I wasn't feeding AN well and said she will make good food for AN but this is the second day of lunch consisting of porridge with porkfloss and anchovies... How about other nutrients to make up a balanced diet? I rather AN eat out if that's the case. At least she has a variety of food for each meal even though it's healthier (less seasoning and unhealthy oil) eating home cooked food.

Wierd family I have, right? I'd like to just attribute these negative thoughts about them to the fact that they are uneducated and have not seen much of the outside world.

I miss going back to our own home now. At least I dun hv to be stuck in the middle of their squabbles or be thought to take sides when I do not..

Am just praying for wisdom to help ease the frequent tensions. It's been like that since we were young but having to go through this again after being away for so long (since we got married in 2004), it just feels wierd and frankly, not very pleasant.

And then, will AN watch and become as quarrelsome?

Sigh... Dunno la. One step at a time.

Toy Story 3
Since popo left the house without keeping her word to bring AN out, we did.

We've been wanting to bring AN for movies since ages ago but haven't had the opportunity to: there were not many shows for her.

Since she loves Toy Story and Shrek (which both are showing now), we decided to bring her to one first.

She totally enjoyed herself! She snacked on popcorn, sweetcorn and sweet peanuts, exactly what Mr Liow and I used to snack on when it was just the 2 of us. She managed to get in for free this time but we doubt she'll get in free the next time round. The young lady closed an eye to AN's height coz AN was exactly 90cm according to their measurement chart.

Toy Story 3 was good! In fact, all 3 of us agreed that this sequel is the best among the 3!

It was fun bringing AN this time. We'll try bring her for Shrek soon, before Mr Liow starts work. Hehe.

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