Mama's 1st Visit

Before I realized it, the day ma ma, mommy & bro arriving came. I spent the 2 days before Friday cleaning my room. I can't believe that I used up the whole afternoon going through papers in the piles, bags, tables, cabinets, floors and drawers, recycling an overloaded box of papers and shredding papers that fit into 2 plastic grocery bags!  I still have a small pile of important documents to be filed and some miscellaneous things yet to be put up at a place that fits but I think my room looks inviting enough to welcome them.

@ 6:00pm
Po po: "Let's go. They will be arriving at 7pm."
Kenny: "I checked. Theier plane is landing around 7:15pm, it will be at least 7:30pm b4 they are ready to go."

Stacey, po po and I went on Uncle Brad's van while Kenny went with gong gong in his van. Picking up 3 people with 6 checked in luggages, 23 kg each, and 3 take on luggages, off we went towards the Atlanta airport. Kenny arrived and helped with luggages while us in the other van missed the airport exit and took another 20 minutes or so finding our way back. We arrived just as they walked out at the baggage claim area. I was pretty excited and relieve at the same time to see them. Gave each of them somewhat a hug or a pat, it just is not as natural to hug because you grew up not doing it. I think hugs are great and I will definitely try to not be as conscious next time. Loaded the bags and we headed to Little Malaysian straight away.

Called papa and he told me to take care of the important things, such as getting mh a bank account, insurance, drivers license. I was telling him that he can email us if he thinks of something to tell us. I think he mistaken me as thinking that he was tired to talk to on the phone or sth. I was just reminding him another way of communication since he doesn't call.

Aunt V called later and was also happy that they arrived safely.

We came back to Kenny's house and everyone gathered around the luggages to see the goodies that mommy brought over. Once opened, packages of food from M'sia pouring out, smiles on faces, comments and stories flying out from mouths. Mommy got scolded by popo after looking at the amount of things that she is bringing for other people and from what I heard, papa nagged all week before they departed from kl too about the same issue. Poor mommy. She was just trying to find the balance in it. Too many relatives, too many favors for her, all came with love but very limited space. If it was me, my things are number 1, I am just not as selfless, I don't however, like to be called selfish, I am not selfish, I am just not selfless. My mother, however, is opposite of me when it comes to bringing things over to US, thus, with these less selfless people around her, she got nagged. Just leave her alone, guys. It's her luggage space. If she wants to come without her things, let it be it. Stop nagging. She actually got me about a luggage worth of stuff which includes some pictures and cross stiches in frames plus photo albums. I was very please to see those. But I figured that is after some naggings. :)

Mama still looked so tiny. Mommy looks almost the same form last year except with short hair again this time. Or maybe she has short hair too last year? I forgot. But sometime ago she was trying to keep her hair long. It didn't work out quite well i guess. I wonder if dad likes her hair long or short. MH, I guess has the teenage flavor in him but I didn't feel headache so far. Not yet.

We found out that mama stayed awake all the way for 21 hours or so from kl to Atlanta. She mentioned that she was cold in the plane and when I saw the coat that she was wearing, I wish I was in the airplace with her and supplying her with a thick ass outfit and pillows or some sort of soft cushy thingy for her to lay on. I wish i was there applying lotion on her skin and feeding her water every hour. I wish I was there to massage her feet and shoulders. I wish i was there to do the same for mommy. I was a bit heart broken.

Anyway, I talked to her today and she talked about the clouds she saw from the plane and the restroom in the plane. We called Aunt I & Qis and I hope that makes her feel good. I am sure she does. Qis was awesome. She shouted "Hello Po Po!" in her happy voice accompanied with laughter.

I wasn't pleased to find out that mommy is having legs problem. She said she could not walk too long. Her leggs started to feel uncomfortable. I am not sure what to do to make it better.

Mama was totally amazed by the sizes of the houses that she saw so far. She goes :" This is really big. It is huge. Wah this is big. Very big ho. Really big." I smile. There are small houses too. But yeah she has not been in big house like this in Msia b4.

I ate dao sha beng (bean sand biscut), sha kei ma maybe, and this powder cube thingy. I'll find out the names tomorrow. Oh and I drank Msia kopi with milk and sugar.

Mama is experiencing these new things so far:
1. Traffic lights are being hang instead of standing from the ground.
2. A lot of African American's braided hair are done so neatly with different designs.
3. They don't wash their hair as frequently after they braid their hair and they sleep on it at night.
4. The door of Uncle Kenny's van opens and closes automatically.
5. She was able to open and close the van's automatic door a few times.

We went to Super H mart today and she was pretty happy to see all the fresh and frozen products that they have except that it is kinda cold inside. We went to Publix just so that she see the differences of an asian and an american supermarket. We ate at Subway for lunch. She had a vege sub which consisted of jalepeno pepper, banana pepper, olives, pickle, cucumber, lettuce, tomato, spinach, mayo, oil and some other dressing. I was proud of her when she said that it was pretty good.

We all went to Uncle Hai and AUnt MAry's place for dinner and was stuff all the way.

GRE In less than 24 hours