Friday, December 23, 2005

My mum's childhood name

My mum grew up in Yu-Jing, a very countryside place in Tainan, sounth of Taiwan. Few days ago she needed to buy a good and warm duve for my brother. She thought about the hand-made duve shop next to her childhood house. Through my aunties, she managed to talk to the shop owner in the telephone. When he talked to my mum, he still called my mum as A-Yo-ah, the way neighbour and family have called her since she were born there. The way they call her is very different from the way people in the city or people that she is not familiar with. Rather than A-Yo-ah, people in the city and in her daily working environment call her Mrs Chen.
She felt that she is in the childhood again... After she shared with me about the experience, she started to recollect her childhood memories, the living environment...
When I grow old in the future... who is going to call me Shiao-Wei? I will miss this name very much because it's only called by my parents and relatives...
Perhaps I should ask my boyfriend to call me Shiao-Wei to prevend such a name I love from disappearing from my life...