Majority of Chinese parents from Malaysia are very stereotypical ones. My parents are beyond that. I've been kept in my house for a long time, not being allowed to hang with my friends during my free time. It's like i have a limited freedom, and the longer or more often i go out, i'll have less chances of going out in the future. Sucks right? Yeah i know.

          Here's another one. My parents wouldn't eat Japanese food, Indian cuisine, Malay cuisine or any other ones BUT Chinese. We act Chinese, we follow the Chinese fortune tellers, we follow the Buddhist rules and we believe in spirits and karma and we don't eat beef because it's against the rules of doing so to the god we pray too. I bet at least half of us Chinese youngsters don't know the reason why we should actually follow the rules or believe in any of these traditional ways of beliefs. Well I've done a research for that. Parents has been influencing them with all these since we were born. Thus, having us to grow up in an environment of religious beliefs.

          Surveys have also shown that teenagers are turning into atheists which can of course, have pros and cons.

          Just a mere 5 minutes ago, my dad received a phone call from my aunt in Indonesia saying that my grandfather is in the hospital now for a checkup. i overheard the conversation of my dads. My grandfather has been diagnosed with leukemia. Leukemia is a disease where you have too much of white blood cells. Smoking too much of cigarettes can cause this disease and that's how my grandfather got it.

           Its been years now that I've been telling my grandfather not to smoke too much of his cigarettes but he wouldn't listen to my advises and there he go, he is now diagnosed with leukemia ; but on the upper hand, he is pretty strong for a 72 year old man who is still working! I've seen him jump over a fence with me 2 years back then and it was a pretty hard challenge.

          I always love to spend time with him for breakfast every morning when he comes back to Malaysia because he's usually in Indonesia for months and when he visits his family here, it'll just be a short week or two. Everyone here misses him and wants him. He doesn't seem to have the plan to retire either! I'm blessed to have a caring and strong grandfather who takes care of his family.

          I've just got news that my neighbour was getting married and is having his wedding dinner at his place during the following weekends. Nobody wanted to go, so i went with my brother, Ernest. Apparently, my grandmother and my mother wouldn't plan to go there after the wedding dinner they had the previous year. Food was so limited, theme was all malay because their family were malays too. During the previous wedding they had, We felt like we were the only chinese's there was in the dinner. One thing for sure is that, they're so filthy rich that they built a bridge from his house connecting to his brothers and it was astonishing to see how the decorated bridge turned up to be. This years was a little more disappointing. Nothing amazingly new. It was just the food which gave me an experience of exotic malay cuisine. Even the rice was perfectly made with some spices cooked with it. Dishes were all meat meat meat and it would be sad to see a vegetarian attending the dinner. boohoo. Fact of why my brother and i went there was because we just wanted to try malay cuisine, because my parents, as typical chineses, doesn't like other food but chinese's. Chinese food, chinese food, chinese food, every day and night, chinese food, nothing else. well actually... not really, my brother and i just wanted food. food is life, life is food. foodgasm. bye.