mum's confusion

it is interesting to see mum getting all confused at about 9-10pm these couple of days. here's what happened...

there's a new mandarin tv series that started airing this week. this series is set in the early-60s and many of the scenes mirrored the environment and lives of singaporeans in the 60s. and yesterday, the story, set in 1967 (coinciding with me at one year of age), showed a man stealing a baby and trying to sell the baby for a certain amount of money. and when mum saw it, she was obviously affected. she started to relate how she was warned by my dad of people stealing babies and how she dare not take me out of the house. she said my dad had to work through the night and thus, being alone at home, she was constantly afraid of people coming into the house to take me away. she dare not even sleep and ended up staying up through the night to look after me. well, i could understand her fears cos i was the first and only son, and having lived through the kampong days, i knew how bad security was back then. anyway, after the show ended, she asked if i was heading out. and when i replied yes, she said i better stay home and not head out cos people could come and "carry me away" (kidnap me)! haha... quite funny actually. but when she said it, she sounded all so serious. and i had to tell her i am already a close-to-50 year old adult. even then, she insisted people will "carry me away". i simply told her to sleep and not worry.

and in today's show, one of the scene showed how the female lead character got kidnapped and in one particular scene, she was tied to a wooden pillar and her mouth was gagged. once again, mum seemed rather affected by the scene as she watched intently. after the show, she suddenly shuddered and said to me, someone just gagged me, i cannot recall, but i think someone just gagged me. i was like, huh? i knew straight away she was confused again and simply laughed it off as i assured her that there was no such thing and that it was a scene she saw on tv. she didn't seemed too convinced from what i could see. anyway, the maid laughed about it and repeated what i said. 

two days, two incidents and both showed similar behavioural patterns. regretful how it turned out this way but i guessed its part of the natural deterioration of her mental capacities. i can only assure her. she needs to manage herself mentally although i am not sure if she is able to. perhaps the best thing to do is to totally avoid such shows moving ahead...