The Tavern

Yeah! WOOHOO! Its Mother’s Day today.

And on this very special day, everyone will suddenly realise how great their mothers are.

Children suddenly become wiser and more thoughtful. “Be kind to your mother or you will regret it with your whole life…”, “树欲静而风不止,子欲养而亲不在”, they chant, with such deep appreciation as if they’ve already seen four hundred and fifty eight of their own mothers RIP in front of them.

And they will do all sort of things to impress their mother. Some will perform monkey stunts to entertain their mother, some will sing songs to mother through phone. And they even employ a guitarist for best effect.

And some even more thoughtful children would wait until the clock strikes 12am midnight to give their mothers a surprise phone call to wish them Happy Mother’s Day. To be the first child to wish her, they said, “Like that baru sincere mar!”

And the poor hypertensive and insomniac mother became arrhythmic and were left awake the whole night, trying to regain normal heartbeat.

Some kids they like to celebrate any event at all with a cake. So they will buy a cake written in icing “HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!! WE LOVE YOU!!”. But their poor mother will only eat half a slice of the cake and the remaining will be all eaten by them kids. And the cake will be of their favourite flavour of course, because the mother is never choosy, and she should be grateful and happy with anything at all.

And some even more and more thoughtful children, they will shoot the question at their mother directly :”mom, what present do you want for Mother’s Day?” which, according to them, is the way of using money wisest. “So you don’t buy things that she doesn’t like.”

But the mother will always come out with “Oh my dear children, I have you I have everything. All of you are so filial, I need nothing else to be happier, so don’t waste money”… exactly the answer for which the children are crossing their fingers so tightly. So at the end of the day they thankgodfully need not spend a cent. The money saved can be used to buy a new handphone.

You tell your mother you love her once a year. You over-pamper her, you heed every of her words like the order from the queen…. once a year. Yet you never made her proud of you for other 364 days in the year. And you never get goosebumps looking back at all those vomit-inducing acts you did on this Mother’s Day.

So, basically Mother’s Day is not a day for children to show mother their love. Quite the contrary, you get to see how much a mother’s love can be. Erm… No you don’t. You can never see how much a mother’s love can be.

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