Mother's Day

Bismillah. Salam.

My ma, is an iron woman. Dia adalah seseorang yang no-nonsense, no-crap, no-stupid-errors, no-carelessness kind of thing. Dad says she's a robot. When she was young, Dad told me ma used to party hard and study smart. She spent time in libraries and when she finishes studying, she knows how to have fun. She's also somewhat street-smart.Like, guys who have all these pick-up lines and she'll be like, give em a run for their money. And like, Be Gone!

Ma is strict, stern and sharp. She is feared in the office, she interviews job applicants, and she retired as a Senior manager. Something goes wrong and she'll go nuts and screw you like crazy. All my friends are scared of her.

She is constantly scolding something or someone in the house, she is intimidating and she is smart. She goes like "Kenapa balik lambat??!?!" and the next second she'll be watching TV eating Rev Velvets and saying cutenyee penguin tu! Yes. her fav animal is the penguin and she still keeps all her love letters from Ayah. And that is saying something.

When I come to her with a problem, she doesn't provide sympathy. She gives no-nonsense solutions. When I ask for a hug, she'll be like, hmm or ish ape ni ibu tengah buat keje. Something like that. The ONLY time she actually offered me a hug when I really needed one was during my first huge breakup. And she bought me cakes and gave me my first life-lesson-principle. Heartbreaks = Cakes.

She isn't that typical mother stereotype, one that is like, awww and I'll love you no matter what-sentences. One day I got home from shopping and she sees my dress I bought for dinner and she's like "What kind of crap is that?? I'll buy u a new one!" I don't know how to react to this but being her daughter for 24 years I learnt how to do so. I replied with a simple, OK.

Ma gets cross if I spend too much time out of the house, with my friends. Ma forgets I'm now 24. ma forgets that I love hugs. But Ma is Ibu and vice versa and she has that soft side inside her I know she keeps for certain special moments.Like when my sis is not around for raya for the first time, she cried.

Ma is a no-nonsense kind of woman.No-crap whatsoever.