ORIGINAL BLOG POST DATE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2008
My Grandmother’s Favourite Question Every Time I Visit
I call my maternal grandmother Poh-Poh, and nowadays, she only asks me one question, “Did you cycle here?”.
In fact she loves this question so much, that she can literally ask me an average of 3 to 4 times in half an hour. Of course, she is also one who likes variety, so she’ll interact in different ways:
1. Are you cycling home?
2. Don’t cycle home.
Whatever form the question or comment is made, my answer is always the same: “No Poh-Poh… I drove here.”
Poh-Poh is 87 this year.
A lovable old lady with a gentle heart who loves spoiling her grandchildren. I like to think I am her favourite because she is always feeding me whenever I visit.
And not just feeding me with everything.
She knows I love fruits and she will always say, with a cheeky smile and a twinkle in her eye, “Ah-Senn, there’s fresh fruits in the fridge”.
This is followed by her telling the usual tale of how, as a kid, I had loved fruits so much that even the ones on the altar are not safe. I would give a…
