This is a picture of me and Isaac on 18th August 2007 - 12 days after Isaac was born. How'd I look? FAT, right? well, it WAS just 12 days after I delivered... (trying to console myself ;p)
Anywayz, what I wanted to say was... to complain and let of steam rather, was... that my mother-in-law keeps calling me TE-BOR (read in Teochew or Hokkien) - it literally means PIG-MOTHER (Mother Pig) - though what she really means is "Mother of the Pig" - since Isaac is born in the Year of the Pig.
But it is sooooo irritating!!! Wah lioaz, she keeps on calling me te-bor te-bor... urrghhh... never in my life (fat as I was) have I ever been called a PIG. Now, best - MOTHER PIG somemore. *roll*eyes*
Hiaz, but what to do, it would appear that I am certainly now a mother pig - since I am the mother of a PIG. *roll*eyes* so you see this picture, looks perfect doesn't it? A perfect picture of the Mother Pig and her Piglet. I certainly look humongously FAT here, no doubt about that!
hmmm... come to think of it... since this year is the Year of the Golden Pig - does that make me a KIM TE-BOR??? (Golden Mother Pig?!)
HAHAHAHHAA...
P.S. Hey! No offence against all those who ARE born in the Year of the Pig yeah?! Just thought this would make a hilarious post. Though it really IS quite irritating of my mother-in-law to keep calling me a Mother Pig - I'm half-amused, half exasperated by it, I guess. Well, in fact, the chinese do consider the Pig Year a good year tohave babies - in fact, this year, being the Year of the Golden Pig - is supposed to be a fantastically excellent year to have a little one! I have soooooo many friends and acquaintances who are pregnant! sighz!!! Next time, registering for school will be a big problem!!! jialatz!!!
I am born in the year of the pig or the boar as they say in English translations.
ReplyDeleteI used to mind it because people use to insult others with phrases like "stupid like a pig" or 笨猪. However, time and technology has proven that pigs are one of, if not the smartest animal on Earth (humans notwithstanding), so I am proud now to declare myself as an evening pig (because I am born in the evening). Ha! Ha!
So, I see lucky things happening ...
I forgot to add. Jen and Julian would love an invite to this blog so that they can ogle at little Isaac, like I am so lucky to.
ReplyDeleteCan you please kindly send them an invite. Thanks!
hahaha yes sorry, forgot to add - no offence against those who ARE born in the Year of the Pig - in fact this year is supposed to be a fantastic year for having babies!!! :) think I shall add this bit to the post hahaha... :)
ReplyDeleteyes, okay have sent invites to Julian and Jen, they'd need to have a gmail account to log in though. :)
Julian has a gmail account, so it shouldn't be a problem. Maybe he can show it to Jen and Mum over his laptop then. Thanks and don't worry about me feeling insulted at all.
ReplyDeleteI would feel insulted if someone called me pig all the time too. ;-)