Mother's Day 2010

The Mother's Day of 2010 has three features worthwhile to record.

Tessie and Chenny celebrated Mother's Day for their mom on the 8th (Saturday) and 9th (Sunday) of May respectively due that their activities clashed.

Chenny arranged to celebrate Mother's Day for his mom on Sunday. He sent a text message to my mobile asking me to tell mum that he would bought some stuff home in the evening so she should not bother prepare for dinner. It was exactly 7:30 PM as he had specified in the text message when he put two big size of pizzas, one pack of french fries and four bottles of beer on the table. Three of us a great fun time.

Tessie chose Bluebird vegetarian café on the Dominion Road. It was a very small but elegant family restaurant. This restaurant is pervaded with air of peacefulness and tranquility. The interior decoration, the indoor plants, and the paintings on the walls are rich in the belief of Hinduism.

Before long, the course of meal was delivered to our table. Surely we would not forget to snap some pictures to record the joy of the mother. Then, we started enjoying these exotic food with happy chats throughout the time of the meal. A good variety of topics were covered, but the one story that mom contributed made all of us laugh to death.

The story goes like this. To protect the privacy of the main character of the story, let's call her Mrs. Soso.

Sometime in the year 2009, mum was told of this story occurred actually in the public toilet on the roadside of Pearn Crescent opposite the food court of Northcote shopping center. "Mrs. Soso, a middle aged Asian woman, hurriedly walked to the public toilet. Obviously she was in a hurry to get her business done without unnecessary delay. Fortunately the indicator on the doorknob was in a green, so she opened it and walked in." mom said with a bit of mysterious facial expression.

"It must be a great relief to her being in it that she decided to do her job relaxedly, with no rush at all. Apparently she was having some degree of constipation that in almost 10 minutes she still remained on the toilet seat.

Suddenly a string of narrative message of female came out of the hidden speaker inside the toilet. She could not understood any word that was said, so she ignored it and carried on her business. But the speaker was only in silence for one minute before the next bombardment of message shot out one more time." mom started to laugh at this point as she knew what happened next. Tessie and I were still in the cloud. Mom carried on.

"This time she was more uneasy with the second round of narrative message which she also could not understand a word, so she decided to leave the business incomplete as it was. Suddenly, the electric door "Zooooom" slided wide open and made her dumbfounded on the seat. Swiftly she jumped up, pulled up the pants, rushed toward the door side, and pressed on the button trying to get the door shut, but it stubbornly remained open." up to this point, mom spoke on and off in an effort to compress her laughing nerves.

Tessie and I burst into wild laugh when the story was coming to this point. And we both prompted mum to complete the story with the remainder of the episode anxiously.

"Mrs. Soso gathered up her consciousness now, then she heard there was the siren going apart from the passersby throwing their curious eyesights over the toilet which was normally shut. She left the scene as quickly as she could and harbourd at a corner of a shop concerning that she might have damaged the toilet. Fortunately, in about one minute of chaos, the siren stopped and the electric door shut close. Mrs. Soso relieved upon seeing everything of the toilet restored to normal, and resolved to improve her English proficiency from then on."

And that was the end of the story, and was also the end of yet another unforgettable Mother's Day celebration.