Weird, but true..
It just struck me a couple of weeks ago that my family (mom's side precisely) has a 'unique' (read:weird) system of referrals to certain branches of our family tree.
Because the members of 2 generations before mine is somewhat extensive (we all know what heavy breeders our fore folk were), we identify them by location.
For instance, one of my grandma's sis was from a place called Galing in Kuantan, another in Trong. So we called them Galing Pati (pati as in grandmother in Tamil) and Trong Pati respectively.
Then there's Seremban Tata from Seremban. All together now: No Shit!
Damansara Pati, (this is the happening grandma :)) is still known as BB Aunty (BB for Batang Berjuntai) by my mom's generation. That's because she used to live there when they were younger. But she's been living in Damansara since the time I've known her, so sometimes listening to the oldies talk,I have remind myself over and over that they are the same persons.
Interesting, eh?
Only since of late have I begun to appreciate my dad's effort in coming up with a computerised, alphabetically sorted, phone directory which is neatly filed in a clear holder next to the telephone unit at home.
Any editing of names, addresses and phone numbers will be done to the Excel Spreadsheet and reprinted. Aaah, the marvels of technology!
Nowadays, whenever I'm asked bymy grandmother to search for an entry, I secretly curse at her little notebook, scribbled all over in no particular order with half the population's illegible handwriting. Really frustrating!
It'll be a good idea to get my dad to digest her notebook and produce a directory for her as well. Then again, he might throw the idea back at me on the pretext of working on my Microsoft incompetencies....
Because the members of 2 generations before mine is somewhat extensive (we all know what heavy breeders our fore folk were), we identify them by location.
For instance, one of my grandma's sis was from a place called Galing in Kuantan, another in Trong. So we called them Galing Pati (pati as in grandmother in Tamil) and Trong Pati respectively.
Then there's Seremban Tata from Seremban. All together now: No Shit!
Damansara Pati, (this is the happening grandma :)) is still known as BB Aunty (BB for Batang Berjuntai) by my mom's generation. That's because she used to live there when they were younger. But she's been living in Damansara since the time I've known her, so sometimes listening to the oldies talk,I have remind myself over and over that they are the same persons.
Interesting, eh?
Only since of late have I begun to appreciate my dad's effort in coming up with a computerised, alphabetically sorted, phone directory which is neatly filed in a clear holder next to the telephone unit at home.
Any editing of names, addresses and phone numbers will be done to the Excel Spreadsheet and reprinted. Aaah, the marvels of technology!
Nowadays, whenever I'm asked bymy grandmother to search for an entry, I secretly curse at her little notebook, scribbled all over in no particular order with half the population's illegible handwriting. Really frustrating!
It'll be a good idea to get my dad to digest her notebook and produce a directory for her as well. Then again, he might throw the idea back at me on the pretext of working on my Microsoft incompetencies....
1 Comments:
hmm are u related to Batangkali Babu the indian gangster? He he.
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