PaReNtS

Now... I'm sure we all have had less-than-friendly run ins with our PaReNtS. Just be glad you don't have ASIAN parents - or at least an Asian mom - because the run-ins will have InCrEaSeD a hundred fold. I've recently been taking to WoNdErInG if parents are really SuPpOsEd to be good or are they just... there. I'm going SoMeWhErE with this, no worries. :)

The point is that for the past 4 days, I've been AwAkEnEd by my mom's yelling. The other three days were at my SiStEr for an UnKnOwN reason. Today was at moi. :) I was just dozing in bed ReAdY to wake up right when I hear -

"Are you awake yet?! It's 10! You're such a lazy person you'll never amount to anything! You sleep late and wake up early EVERY DAY!!"

THAT, my friends, made me NOT want to wake up just then BeCaUsE I've realised when she realises I'm awake, then the yelling will escalate. Then I CoMmEnCeD to "cleaning my ears". :) It's the basic ChIlD survival skill we picked up when we don't want to hear something. OK, basically I just stuck my FiNgErS in my ears. When I can, I'll buy EaRpLuGs. For now, I'll do with the InGeNiOuS cleaning tactic. Plus it's not as if I was MiSsInG anything. She says the same thing on every subject. I HoNeStLy wouldn't mind her yelling at me if the InFoRmAtIoN was different - but then it never is.

Eventually I decided to just get up and do the MoRnInG grooming ritual. One cool thing: RuNnInG WaTeR is great to mute anyone's voice due to the fact the DoOr was closed and the SoOtHiNg sound echoes (somewhat) in the bathroom. No worries, I wasn't RuNnInG it the entire time. I remember that CoMmErCiAl I saw on PBS when I was a kid about how when you use water, you're DrAiNiNg a pond with a fish in it. :\ Other times when the WaTeR wasn't running, I just used my other tactic that I PiCkEd up when you're in the same room with the YeLlEr. I just doze and even though I hear the noise, I won't ReMeMbEr a thing. :) But it's harder to do when you're doing SoMeThInG.

At last, I was done and my mom was like "Are you awake yet?! I'm gonna go upstairs and... [hears footsteps go up the stairs and I move away from the door] ... You're awake. [starts repeating herself]" Then I StArTeD to put in some input.= like how I was reading the OuTsIdE NoVeL for english (and she knew it - that's how she knew I was up late last night). I went DoWnStAiRs and then she seemed all right. She got it into her head that I was doing HoMeWoRk. Now... have you guys ever read "Mona in the Promised Land" by Gish Jen? Mona's mom is like mine though with ObViOuS differences. Mona's mom is more LeNiEnT because she doesn't know much in EnGlIsH and was new but most of the stuff is similar like:

M's Mom: Since when do children pick this, pick that? You tell me. Children are supposed to listen to their parents. Otherwise, the world becomes crazy. Who knows? Tomorrow you'll come home and tell me you want to be black.
Mona: How can I turn black? That's a race, not a religion.
M's Mom: And after that you are going to come home and tell me you want to be a boy instead of a girl.
Mona: Blood, mom.
M's Mom: And after that you're going to go home and tell me you want to be a tree.

LOL... man I love this book. Well, at least the BeGiNnInG (I haven't gotten past that yet). :) Yeah, my mom goes off like that when she doesn't like something. NoT exactly on the same SuBjEcT though. lol.. :P It's like I talk about a guy and then... "WHAT?! Fine then! Go off and get married! You like him!" And I'm like "..." Uh.. right. Oh.. and when you use something against them, she'd move onto something else like she never said that. It's HARD to talk to my mom. lol... Though I must admit I like the ChAlLeNgE - and finding the SiMiLaRitIeS between my life and the book. Oooh.. I found a quote from RaNdOmViLlE. :) [Background info: they moved there because OF education]

Mona: What Napkin Massacre?
M's Mom: Nan-king.
Mona: Are you sure? In school, they said the War was about putting the Jews in ovens.
M's Mom: Also about ovens.
Mona: About both?
M's Mom: Both.
Mona: That's not what they said at school.
M's Mom: Just forget about school.
Mona: I thought we moved here for the schools.
M's Mom: We moved here for your education.

LOLOL... Okie.. yeah. :) No worries, no matter how DiFfIcUlT my dear mummy is, I still love her though at times she's a MaJoR pain and totally odd. Oooh... like on Tuesday morning (I was AsKiNg my mom if I could go to the movies with Will, Hannah, and Mike):

Me: So.. can I go?
Mom: No. [looks through her purse]
Me: [:\]
Mom: [still looking in purse] How much do you need?

Yeah... I TOTALLY understand her. lol...

Well, I'd better get downstairs unless I WaNt to hear my mom's PlEaSiNg, dulcet tones. :)