Sunday, January 27, 2013

Day 6 and Day 7


Day 6  Saturday 28.07.2012

Helen came to Sunny's house to bring me for breakfast, and then we went to her place for durian. Sad to  know about her mum's situation hope that her mother will recover very soon.

Still couldn't sleep tied at night... Jiu Mu's (Sunny's mother) sleepless night influenced me.  I am also very worried about her health condition.



Day 7  Sunday  29.07.2012

Went for lunch with Lisa's family and Johnny's family. I found out that the past 14 months they didn't met up at all. I am glad because of me everyone find their time to get together.
I was really happy now we all have times to be together and having fun with the chitchat and laughing!
Johnny brought us to a restaurant for roasted duck, which is owned by his friend.
Johnny's treat! Thanks Johnny :)



At night I have Mary took care of my dinner. She is really very good in what she is doing. I really admire her abilities and her success in her business.  I hope she takes good care of her health though....

Day 4 and 5



Day 4       Wednesday
Cita came early in the morning and she cleaned up all the bathrooms - spotless, how nice!
While looking at the house spotless and as clean as always like the old time, I thought of mum would be  very pleased to see this! Unfortunately we killed a few spiders, sorry....

The husband to the aunty from Taiwan who stayed at the back of our house got lung cancer and was admitted to the ICU in the hospital. She was upset and indecisive, just like me for 14 months ago, I totally understand her feelings and and I hope that uncle will recover soon...

AnQi came for a visit in the evening. She bought fried mee for me. She is also moving soon.

At night the couple who wants to buy my house came. The moment of facing the reality. I really hope that mum would understand why I want to sell the house. I cannot rely on my cousin brothers and sisters to take care of the house for me all the time. Everyone has their own life to busy with, how could they always help me then?

I am really angry why a house that facing a road is hard to be sold out? It's scary how the belief of custom and Feng Shui is baffling people's mind!

Day 5 Thursday

Overnight at Sunny's house. Chlóe has grown up much, a bit more mature, so cute!

Day 3


Day 3  Tuesday

Life without a few hours computer time after 3 days here was actually not that bad. Actually what I need to have a computer is for checking my e-mails only. Fortunately Sunny drove me to his boss's house to check mails and that was enough.

There is far too much dust at home, tomorrow I am going to ask the maid "Ah Hei" to come and clean up.

Lao Da (Sunny) didn't overnight here tonight. Finally I got the chance to unpack my luggage.

* The following part was written the next day..cause I was in a little chock and had a weird feeling and too tired to write that night...

While I was unpacking, I hanged a small plastic bag on a hanger but then it was blown away by the fan and ended up under the dusty bed. I took a look down there. Due to my fear to dust allergy I dared not took it out from there, so I decided to leave it there. I turned back and continued unpacking other stuff , and I tied another small plastic bag to the rope near the wall. Actually I was thinking of using these small plastic bag as a dustbin.

After a while when I was thinking to throw away some small papers and turned myself to the second plastic, I was the first plastic bag was hanged back nicely at the hanger. I thought back and  really didn't pick up the first plastic bag...

Mum really came back to see me but I wasn't afraid at all, kind of weird. After all she didn't have the intention to scare me, she just wanted to help out...


Day 2 - Monday 2012 07 23


Day 2  Monday 

We went to visit the third aunty (my mum's third brother's wife) first, then we went to "bai bai" dad and mum.
Outside the temple Zheng Jue Lin,  I suppressed my feeling while I was walking into the temple. Mum and dad should know I am back here. 
Because we went to Johnny's place, and then did some errands at other places after we left the temple, and when we reached home, surprising we saw the key chain was hanged at the outside of the middle gate. Sunny insisted he locked the key chain at the inside of the gate when we left the house this morning. This was one of the routine/regulations set by mum to everyone who has stayed in our house. I called around and asked everyone who has our house keys, and nobody has been there when we were out.. so that must be mum's way of welcoming me home then..

Sunny said the same thing too..

We went to buy durians in the evening. Sunny wanted to eat the best quality one, so we ended up bought home three good variety of durians (total 60 ringgits) , they were sooo yammy that I couldn't forget the taste in my mouth! 

Day 1 - Sunday 2012.07.22



Day 1 Sunday 2012.07.22

After one year and two months, finally I am back to my old house again, as if I had a dream. The return of this trip brought along with me another kind of feeling.
Sunny offered to stay back to keep me company. Well, better that way, otherwise I don't know how to spend this night.
The first thing to do tomorrow morning is to go and "bai bai" dad and mum, and tell them I have sold the house...but I don't know how should I tell them?
Well it seems like I should get a good sleep instead... I really have to pack this time...

日记


中学时超爱写写东写写西的打发时间和发泄情绪, 但是我从来都不写日记。没那个耐心,也觉得哪有那么多天天可以发牢骚的东西写。来到瑞典后的日子是在忙着扮演妈妈,工人,老婆的角色中度过的,连以前的爱好都放弃了,更不用说写什么日记。说实在,现在我有时会后悔没有养成写日记的习惯,好多记忆里的事务都模糊了, 有时只能靠照片和孩子们所记得的事情来唤起回忆。

很多人都认为搬家和卖屋子是我们人生里的其中一件大事。那倒是的。是一个要下很大决心去做的事。所以轮到我五个月前,必须要面对卖掉爸妈留给我的屋子的抉择时,我天生不能拿定主意的性格一直左右着我,让我好烦躁,再加上身边一些左右我做决定的干扰,让我更加不能做决定。还好,我最终能定下心情,问问我心里要的是什么,所以下了决心买了机票飞回去老家,开始我三个月的收拾,收拾妈妈留下来的杂物和纪念品,和整理我一直没带过来瑞典的东西,里面有我童年和少女青春期的梦和回忆。

为了让我的女儿以后了解我这三个月的心情,如果她们有兴趣知道的话,再加上发觉自己的记忆力越来越差,我又下了另一个决心, 一定要把这三个月的过程记录下来。

我做到了!有些是当天晚上睡觉前写的,有些是过了几天才写的。但都是每一天的记录。

只是有些的记忆只适合留在我的脑海中,不能分享的秘密只能自己一个人知道。


When I was at the high school I loved to write about  this and that to kill times and express my emotion. but I never wrote a diary. I didn't have that patience because there were not much stuff to write about everyday. After moving to Sweden and started to play many different rolls as a mom, a worker, a wife in my busy daily, I have given up my hobbies, not even mention about writing a diary. To be honest, and now sometimes I regret that I didn't develop a habit of keeping a diary because a lot of memories  are getting blurry and sometimes I can only rely on photos and children to remember things.

Many people think that to moving and sell a house is one of the major events in our life. That is quite true. It takes a great determination to do make that move. Therefore when it was my turn to make that move five months ago, when I must facing the decision to sell the house my parents left for me, I got irritability. I am a person that can not make up my mind easily, plus there were people around me tried to interfered me, so I couldn't even make a decision. Fortunately, I eventually be able to set a mood, to ask what my heart want, so finally I made up my mind to buy a ticket, fly back home to start a three-month packing and clean up the  mother's stuff and my stuff. These stuff brought along with my dreams and memories of my childhood and teenage adolescence.

So, in order to let my daughters know how I did and felt in these three months, that's if they are interested to know of course, plus I noticed that my memory's ability is getting worse, I made another determination, I want and must keep a journal about these three month's process.

I did it! Some were written in then night before I went to bed, some were written a few days after but still were the stuff that have been done or happened on that date when they occurred.

It just that some of the memories would only suitable to stay in my mind, secrets that can't not be shared with others should be kept for yourself.