Mother’s Day tale :two brothers and a mother
Character : Late thirties, tanned complexion, very well built, long haired contractor reminiscent of Alan Tang of the late 70s movies.
Kee Chin : Look at all these people celebrating Mother’s Day. I have never celebrated Mother’s Day. And not once has my mother found fault in me. I have low education but I have provided for my mother. I treat her with all the respect she deserves.
My brother, the second in the family is well off. He has a house of his own but uses it just as a place to sleep in. The whole family is there in my mother’s home from morning until night. They eat, drink, bathe and consume electricity. My mother is also the baby sitter, maid, cook and everything. My mother is a pensioner and is struggling to survive. She is supporting my brother’s family because she think it is not alright to ask her son to pay his share.
She said my brother would understand eventually. It has been ten years and he still hasn’t understood. Tonight he is taking my mother out for mother’s day at Tanah Mas. One day cannot pay back one full year’s board and lodging. I estimate I pay my mother Rm10 800 a year and yet my mother is so ridiculously happy my brother is taking her out for dinner tonight. How much is one dinner and the usual gift he gives during Chinese New Year.
I talked to him and he said I am jealous because he is a success. What success you tell me if you still have to be supported by mother? I don’t wear a long sleeved shirt and a tie but I am sure I earn more than him.
Can’t he see my mother is cutting corners and scrimping as she has never had to? He should at least buy some rice, vegetables, chickens, ducks back occasionally. Two adults and three children can consume a lot and drain a pensioner’s finances.
Bengbeng: Why don’t you take your mother out and celebrate Mother’s Day with her.
Kee Chin : Every day is Mother’s Day where I am concerned.
Bengbeng | interesting characters
Is video Sibu by night?
yes, it is Sibu by night..a small town, quiet and usually peaceful
so how was Mrs Bengbeng’s mother day?
this year the circumstances r a little different with demands on our time and the medical situation
so there was no mother celebration at all 
It is indeed an interesting observation about love and the celebration of love. the sister’s love is expressed in action, sacrificial giving. the brother’s expression is just a ‘celebration of love’.
I can see how the sister feel about this lack of ‘equality’. Personally from my faith angle, the sister has honoured her mom more and that itself has a double blessing - she will have long life and a blessed life on earth (see Matthew 5). But for the brother, he can’t claim on that promise.
But at the end, i think all moms love their children whether u give money or u give nothing. The mother’s love is really a reflection of God’s love - its unconditional.
yr observation is correct although there r no sisters involved jus an elder and a younger brother
my mum was complaining about my brother not being at home for 3 weeks when she talked to me yesterday.. i dunno.. about parenting and whether kids are good to them when they are old.. its so hard to engage it this topic nowadays.. here i am in shanghai..and while my brother is in singapore..i dunno its like mum had two kids but never with her at all..
Sad to read this cos I know someone is doing that too. Well… pay RM400 a month but think that they should cover his water bill, electricity bill, food, ppl taking care of washing his clothes, sending the car for servicing etc. Not even helping around at home and bringing the old couples for breakfast or dinner. Yet still dare to show unhappiness around at home. *sigh* He is lucky because the parents say they dun care whether he is going to take k of them or not. They just want him to live well. Lucky spoilt brat!
I feel sad for this gentleman. I feel he is hurting inside seeing how the brother is taking advantage of his mother yet he can’t say anything.
He is right to say that everyday is mother’s day. I believe deep down, his mother knows how filiar this gentleman is.
the mother hasn’t shown it though