My Piano

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She was a little woman.

Little in size, because of her past.

She had worked hard, very very hard…..

That’s why she got herself hunchback……

She looked like a little woman, but she didn’t become a little woman.

She became a great mother to nine children.

And became a great grandmother to her every grandchild who was born in five different decades.

She was really blessed too, to become a great grandmother (literally) to her grandchildren’s children.

She became a great ‘great grandmother’.

And my wife and I were blessed, to have her presence during our wedding in PJ.  She didn’t need to go, as she would have to endure a total of five hours of travel including a near-three hours flight.  But she did, and because of that, she made a difference to our wedding day.

Later, she had some serious health issues because of her old age, and was admitted to the hospital.  I believe it was God’s grace and mercy, that she recovered from that incident.  I believe so, because she did come to know about Jesus, because during some years ago she followed my mum to the Hakka senior service at our local church.

She reached her 80th birthday April last year, and I believe she was blessed to be able to greet another great grandchild of hers into this world the following month in May.  Joleen was most certainly blessed too, to be able to meet her great grandparent in person.

Another year on, grandma attended Joleen’s first birthday party.

It would have been really interesting, to see Joleen talking to her great grandma in Hakka in the future.  That’s what I had been imagining that time.

My mother’s mother, my grandma, suddenly fell onto the floor three days after Joleen’s party.  She became unconscious and past away midnight the next day……

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She was a little woman in size, but a great one in life……

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Allow me to show you how great my grandma is to me:

I spoke in Hakka to her, but she always replied in Mandarin to me.

The reason being, I am very bad in Hakka.  She knew my Hakka was very limited and mostly I wouldn’t be able to answer her proficiently.  She was very thoughtful.  But if you were to view it from a third party’s angle, it might seem like a funny situation as if she was mocking my bad Hakka.

She was the main reason I tried to improve my Hakka dialect…

I hope Joleen and I will be able to meet her in heaven eventually, and maybe we could converse in full Hakka then…

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Grandma at our Wedding Ceremony in PJ, 21 March 2009

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Tea Ceremony with Grandma in Tawau, 28 March 2009

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Grandma at Joleen’s Full Moon, 21 June 2010

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Grandma at Joleen’s First Birthday Party, 23 May 2011

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