mum's birthday

tomorrow will be mum's 81st birthday. and over the last 2 days, it was basically non-stop eating. not too healthy for her, but what the heck. it's now or never. frankly, and "matter-of-fact"-ly (if there's such a phrase, but you get what i mean), in her current state of health, i am really not sure if she'll live to experience another birthday. anyway, second sis bought her dinner last night at a hotel and since it was an international buffet, mum had the chance to eat like almost all the different cuisine from around the world. and tonight my younger brother and his family bought her a cake after bringing her out for a dinner (that i paid for). and again, mum ate her hearts out. and of cos, my eldest sis wanted to bring her out for dinner next week but mum rejected the offer, citing that she would be having dinner with me.

well, it seemed rather celebratory with all the dinners and celebrations, but from another perspective i thought it was rather sad. sad for a fact that for her birthday, and in my view, the most important and valuable thing for her would probably be to have dinner with all her children together. but instead, she ended up with every other children buying her a dinner separately cos of inter-sibling tensions. well, i simply take it as her karma. nothing much i can do for her. as for me, well… considering i was the one driving her around, i got to eat the dinners together. heh… and for today's dinner, i stayed quiet through out the whole evening. i didn't want to nor do i have any topic that i can talk to my brother.