Serve her right

Yesterday was the lights up ceremony for the upcoming Chinese New Year at Chinatown.

All these while, my mum had been interested to go and see especially since the start of allowing fire crackers display on the lights up ceremony or on the 1st few second of the actual Chinese New Year Day.

Well, I remembered that on that 1st year (4 years ago), my mum went to watch with her 2nd eldest brother and his wife and their daughter who was in Primary 3 then.

Then following year, she went with her 3rd eldest sister and her family and they totally forgotten their maid then after leaving the carpark. Luckily the maid managed to get back. Well, I remember that year, I went with them too together with another cousin and on our way back, a guy squeezed in between my cousin and me and insisting on letting his family cross. I told him that I am with my cousin and what if she got lost and he said that it's not his problem.

With all these past experience, she still wanted to find people to go with her. This year, lagi worst. She kept thinking of bring my cousins (the 3 that she takes care of) on the eve of CNY as she said they never watch before. I refused. It will be late and we still got to bring them home. That is crazy. So when she know of the lights up ceremony, she asked my aunt and uncle (cousins' parents) if they wanted to go. Even asked my grandma along.

She wanted to go there early to get a good view and thus, planned to meet them to go at 3+pm. Yet after my piano lesson when I reached home at slightly past 4pm, she was still at home. She was very mad. Cause my aunt went to NTUC to get milk powder and was uncontactable. Michelle kept calling and after my aunt finally picked up, she said that my uncle was still bathing. That cause her to jump even more.

I just keep quiet and went to do my stuffs but my cousins were the pitiful ones. They had to endure my mum's grumblings. She keep saying that she should have gone with Michelle and not asked her parents along. She said she should have brought the two boys home. Anyway, she told the two boys that she would bring them home and she left with them.

Anyway, as I had expected, she will still go with them. My aunt did called back and asked where to meet butI told her to call my mum instead. And at 5+pm, they just reached Redhill MRT station.

At first, I was disappointed that I had to work and had to miss the beautiful fireworks. I just loved to see the dark sky filled with glittering stars and even the fireworks. But after all these, I felt relieved I could miss it. I was still disappointed but I'm glad I'm not in those situation.

After I got home from work, my mum wasn't back yet which I expected that she would be back or just back a while ago. Anyway, I thought, they might have shopped awhile.

When she got home, she grumbled again. She said she would never go with them again. They were slow and could not find the best place. After that, they insisted on going to take bus home. They got direct bus where my mum had to take LRT back after that. My mum suggested taking MRT but they refused. Yet due to change of route, they had been walking for 45 minutes to get to the bus-stop with some dead-ends along the way as they keep walking to the wrong direction. My uncle suggested walking here and my aunt suggested walking there, blah blah blah.

When they finally got to the bus-stop, after several buses had gone with a few people boarding and a big crowds remains at the bus-stop, my mum knew it was not right as most likely these people would be taking the same bus and suggested to back to that MRT. Only then, my uncle see her point and agreed to go and take MRT. My grandma who do not see the point was grumbling then saying there is direct bus so she don't see why must they walked back to take MRT.

Well, my mum can't walk for long as her legs would swell and pain. And with the unnecessary walking, she was very unhappy about it. With that walking, she could have shop around with things to see and feel the CNY mood and reached home the same time. Even my cousins was so tired after the walking. Who won't be?

After hearing all these, I was even more glad I am not there. But I comment to my mum taht my aunt and uncle had never been on time. They always take their own sweet time. Why must she be constantly be thinking about my cousins that they never see these before, blah blah blah and in the end she must go with them when she already know their style. If she wanted to go with them, tell them a much earlier time lah. Why get mad about such thing? I told my dad these actually when he was driving me home from work. I even told her the past experiences and that she should have just gone there herself or just find 1 or 2 person instead of going in such a big group.

Therefore, it kind of serve her right. I sound mean. But she won't think of all these before she go ahead with her plan. I did tell her about my cousins and if she had to bring them along, it would be late and it would be crowded blah blah blah. All she said was, asked their parents along loh and that they never see before.

If CNY eve, she still wanted to jio so many people along, I would say count me out or I would walk by myself and go home myself. Well, she could have done so yesterday what. She could go home herself when they insisted to take bus. I would do that. I would not care even if it is CNY. So what?