Her Story

Born into a family of 13 children, she's one of them.
Out of the 13 children, she's the only daughter.
Daddy doted a lot on her being the only little girl in his eyes.
She has 2 mothers. One's a step mother, the other is her biological mother.
She has 10 step brothers and 2 'real' brothers.
To them, a younger/elder sister.

Her 2 mothers are sisters.
Like the Cinderalla story, she was not favoured by her step mum.
From young, she has been accompanying her biological mum, a domestic helper to
the Caucasians' places. There was this European family who liked her a lot.
When this family wanted to leave Singapore for good, they
proposed to her mum if they could take this little girl with them back to their
country. Her biological mum rejected.

Wow, her mum must have loved her so much and doted on her.
She only finished her primary studies. Step mum thought that a girl need
not study so much. When other people asked her step mum about this
little girl, she will give bad comments like ' stupid girl', 'worst in this family',
'good for nothing'. The young girl took in those comments and did not
rebuked those aunties, cause she felt that she had no choice.
Her step mum will keep bullying and pinpointing on her for no reasons,
yet her biological mum can't do anything to protect the little girl.

Be it every new year/ dinner/ pocket money, her share of the stuff will
be the least. Both her mums do not dote on girls.
She wanted to leave the family so much as she felt alone.
Only daddy love her.

She was often bullied in school because of her complex family.
Friends laughed at her, hit her, ridiculed her.
She placed these stuff into her little bursting heart.
Her dad was a drunkard. She has no one to talk to about her feelings.

When the kids were young, they are still innocent.
As they grew older, things changed.

Gradually, she grew up into a young lady working in
factory and met a bunch of good friends and finally met the man who
walked the aisle with her.

At the age of 18, her dad passed away.
It's even worse for her, as she felt that no one in her family really love her.
At 20, she wanted to get married with the man.
She felt that she can't stay with the family anymore.
She just need a simple, contented life.
But her step mum objected to their marriage.
All the kids have grown up and mostly have a degree or college cert.
But she only studied till primary.

Her step brothers began to view her differently as a different class of person.
And their relationship drifted apart.

Her 2 'real' brothers, both make it to college and degree.
She thought that at least she still have them and her biological mum.
But who knows, things doesn't go as how she thought it will be.
Her biological mum did not bother about her at all, did not help her,
did not the basic thing a mum should have done which is to show
concern for her.

Finally she got married at 23 and left her horrible family.
But deep down in heart, she still loves them, still harbor thoughts of
hoping to get love from her family.

Human is still selfish. Her step brothers live in bungalows with
good careers like director, lecturer, lawyer, bankers driving posh cars.
They despised on her because of her
lowly education, small flat, husband who yet to have completed his primary
studies, husband's job as a technician.

As for her real brother, 1 betrayed her for money, the other was acting the
same way as her step brothers.

Initially, during the first 10 years of her marriage, she will still try to keep
in contact with her family. Her husband and her brought her kids to visit
them during new year or birthday parties. But whenever she did that,
no one bothered to go over to talk to them. They are like the invisible ones.
All of them looked down on her husband, herself and her kids.
They said very hurtful stuff to her, like 'your kids will be as stupid as you in
future', 'i don't have such a daughter/ sister like you', 'with that little pay, are you sure
you can survive?'.
No one welcomed them at all and hurt her with such remarks.
That day was the last time she had a gathering with them.

Eventually, she lost her contact with her family.
A family that she's born into.
A family whom she thought should be the closest one.
A family that brought her so much hurt.

But she married into a good family, not of family of fame and wealth.
It is a family full of love.
No matter how hard her life is, she still remain strong.
She is so strong now because of the love she's holding on.
Love from husband, Love from her daughter and son, Love from her husband's
family.

Though she may not be rich or educated, but she's someone who
is contented with what she has.

She has impacted my life so much that i want to love her all my life.
Mum, you are the most wonderful person i have ever known.