Just now I watch Uptown Girls on Fox Family Movies starred the late Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning (back when she was still a little girl and innocent). Gosh, this movie really brings the memory of my Nenek. Oh, a little information to fill you in, I lived with my grandparents since I was baby until I enrolled university. It was before the existence of Astro and Netflix or Youtube, we relied on VCDs to watch latest movies. Well, I was still schooling back then, so outing to the cinemas with friends was a bit NO NO. Yeah, my grandparents (apparently my parents too) were so overprotective.
As such, I would usually buy those VCDs from Pasar Malam...err fake ones (where do you think a school girl get her money from?!), it only costed about RM5 each then. One day, my Nenek went to Pasar Pagi and I didn't join her because I want to study and stuff (SPM pfft), so I just asked her to buy me the VCDs. I want Uptown Girls because I've seen from TV ads, it's already out in cinemas and the storyline seems good. Well, who doesn't love Dakota Fanning back then right?? So, i write the title down on paper and ask my Nenek to pass it to the CD seller. I even told her it's a movie not the song. Do you know what he gave to my Nenek?! That Apek gave Nenek a Westlife CD instead!!! Because, coincidently, Westlife was a hit for singing the song with the same title back then..so, it just made sense.
When my Nenek gave me that CD, I was so pissed because I really wanted to watch it and blaming the whole world for that mistake. I blamed the seller because he took my Nenek's money for the wrong VCD although he might knew it wasn't the one and I blamed my Nenek because I already gave her clear instruction. I even went sulking because of that (-___-). But well, how can an old lady know what is the latest movies on cinemas, or who On earth Dakota Fanning is right? I was so selfish. She tried her best not to let me down. Eventually, I got the real VCD the following week when I bought it myself..hehehe.
So, when I watched it tonight, this memory came to me. It struck me on my Nenek's love towards a ungrateful granddaughter and selflessly buying a CDs without having a slightest idea what she was saying or what I wrote. I could've wrote "porn" and I bet she doesn't even know what that is hehehehe. I know she's willing to do anything for me because she loves me above all. She pushed away the shame to pronounce an English movie tittle while standing there awkwardly at the CD stall. Until now, she's very much loves me although she is now blessed with great grandchildren and they could've taken my throne..move away kids! Haha. Everytime I visit her at my hometown, she would cook anything that I asked her to, she stayed with me during my confinement and when I forgot to call her that week, she would worriedly calling me asking if I was sick that I didn't call her. While, I am just to busy occupying myself with tonnes of endless works. I would feel guilty because of that..
Now, that I am older, I tried to make time for my grandparents, if it's not to visit them, but to at least call them. Because you know, they will not always going to be around, so cherish them while you can. And this applies to all your love ones..
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