MOTHER'S DAY
14 May 2006 Mom celebrated her 80th birthday last year. We are extremely fortunate that mom is still with us and in good health. Dad is still around too. It looks like the Ng family is blessed with the longevity gene. Mom was born in KL in 1925. She was married off at sweet 16, a hastily arranged marriage before the invading Japanese army occupied Malaya. Life in those early years were no bed of roses. Food and basic necessities were scarce. Only the big towkays could afford the luxury of domestic help. Family planning was also not in vogue. Despite the adversity, in the space of 12 years along came 6 children before she reached 30. Although her hands were full, Mom managed to enroll and graduate from a tailoring course. A vocational skill that would be extremely useful had the need arise. In their younger years, Mom and Dad had very different personalities, much like chalk from cheese. Had their data being fed into a match making computer, the result would have been a zero match. But