Throughout my time working at the Odeon, I had at best a love-hate relationship with it. It wasn’t always that way. When I was younger, I stayed at home whilst all my older brothers and sisters were out all day and night working. I wanted to join them, but thanks to my position in the…
It would seem in hindsight that he never stood a chance, even from the moment he was named as a baby. All the girls in our family have the middle name ‘Min’ and all the boys, ‘Choong’. His name was Choong Fee. Shortly thereafter, my mom saw a fortune teller. He told her it was…
According to my dad, mom planned on having four kids. This pic shows the four oldest kids – and that would have been it – neither I nor half my siblings would have existed. Then my mom visited a fortune teller. He told her he could see her husband marrying a second, younger wife in…
Found a pic of my mom smiling today. That’s rare. She usually looks wistful, stoic, maybe a bit weary. I don’t know if that was just how she was, or whether she was ill without yet knowing it. I know that just before she found out she had cancer, she had travelled back to China…
All my parents’ martial arts friends were there. A large group dominated by housewives who were Tai Chi students of my dad. There were one or two who remained life-long family friends, but I never cared for the majority of them. Even at that young age, I saw them as a bunch of privileged, mean…
I remember clearly the day my mom had to pack her bags to be admitted to the hospital. At 5 or 6 years of age, my understanding of the difference between illness and death was that if you were ill, you went to the hospital, stayed for awhile, then you came back. If you died,…
A couple of years ago someone in a Malaysian Facebook Group posted a link to SerembanGirl.com – a blog they’d stumbled upon, and which they’d enjoyed reading (well I think they did). They were wondering if anyone knew who the owner was. It occurred to me then that I should probably edit the Seremban Girl…
This below is a copy of a newsletter I sent out to my subscribers overnight, and it’s an update on a previous post – https://jackiem.com.au/2015/12/30/an-important-letter-to-my-customers/ —————————————————————————————————— I’m very sorry to let you know that after having given it much thought, I’ve decided not to return to Orange Grove Market. My smaller vehicle is just not capable of…
(This was originally drafted as a newsletter, but I’ve decided to post it as a blog article to cover constant enquiries about my business) If you could sum up your last 12 months in one word, what would it be and why? Mine would be “tumultuous” – though to be fair, you could probably say…