Date Night

I had an awesome night yesterday. It was lovely; it was a date night with my mum...

It started when my mum was in town (Sgp) yesterday for business. Turns out that she actually is a busy woman. She is like the "Carrie Bradshaw" in my family, albeit married already lah... haha

Anyway, yesterday I was in Sengkang at my best friend's house, and my mum called me.

Mum: William mau pegi dinner sama mami ga?
Will: Ummmm... Gimana ya? Aku masi di rumah temen
Best Friend: pegi lah kur... dasar buaya loe!
Will:?!
Best Friend: Buaya!
Will: Ok mum, aku pulang sekarang.
Mami: Ok, mami uda mau sampe rumah.
Will: ok bye
Best Friend: Lu pulang kur? Anter gw ke Compass point donk. Gw mau dinner
Will: Buaya loe!

As I drove home, I thought about where should we have dinner. And I came up with Serangoon Gardens. "Ahhhh, what a perfect choice." I thought to myself.

Frankly speaking, I had never gone out with my mum alone. I mean just the two of us. However, I connect better with my mum than with my dad. I don't know why, but it's just easier to talk to my mum. And I actually loved listening to her myriad of stories and advices about life and love. It's those long stories that made me realised how great my mum is.

So during dinner, I asked her many questions and also asked for opinions about my friends, my life, my love life.. My mum even talked me out to get seperate bank accounts when I get married, just in case I get a divorce, so that my future wife can't touch that. haha.

On the topic of my friends, I asked her opinion about ci Bombie, that she's almost 30 and doesn't has a boyfriend yet. And she said, "Why are you so "kaypoh" on someone else's life? What about yourself?" I laughed when she said that. haha..

On the topic of my life, I told her that I passed all my units in this semester. And she was gleaming with joy.

On the topic of love, I told her that when I was 18, I went to a church camp with "pria-sejati", and during the camp, I signed a treaty with the Lord that I will not have girlfriends until I'm 24. She laughed, I laughed, and I even felt that the grilled spicy sting-ray that has been half-eaten laughed at my face.

So there were times when I tried to ask a girl to be my girlfriend, but I was rejected for no reason. I think if I were to count in my head, I've been rejected almost 15 times with different girls.

Wow, is that sad? Or just something every men has to go through in their lives?

Ok, so dinner was good, I love hanging out with my mum.

After dinner, she said she's meeting some friends at Marina-Bay Sands for drinks, but I knew she's playing poker at the casino... But never mind all that, after all, she is still a working mother with 3 kids, who just wanna have fun...

William Lim