Mother's day

My mom passed away 16 years ago. Sadly I never have a chance to celebrate mother’s day with her. When she passed away, I was just about to graduate, just about to start my working life, just about to earn my own living and be independent. So unfortunately that my mom never had a chance to enjoy mother’s day just like any other ordinary mothers do but that’s how life is, fair or not, that’s life. I wish that she could be around especially when there are too many obstacles in life that it would be good to talk it out to someone you love the most.

But this world that we are living in has evolved to such a dismal state that we often see some parents abusing their own children, some even killing their own child. Some teens are so disrespectful to their own mothers, some beating their own mothers, some even murdering their mothers for petty things. Unless a person is already out of his mind, or otherwise, how could he hit his own mother, a person who carries him as a fetus for a good 10 months, a person who has to endure the great pain of labor.

It is a good experience for some 1500 primary school students at a school in Gombak that these young pupils were asked by their school to hang an egg on their necks for a day "imitating" their pregnant mothers, so that these young pupils can appreciate the hardship of their mother in carrying them for a good 10 months. Of course, these cheeky kids will never understand the real challenges of being a mother, neither do I, but at least the idea is good, reminding the young pupils on how difficult or “inconvenience” to be their mothers.