This is my group cosplay presentation last June 14, 2009 together with my team for Toycon 2009 in our country. Mah parents enjoyed it heheh. For more information about this group, you may read through it from my blog at: http://chenmeicai.multiply.com (where I keep my cosplay life).
Next, I headed to a local mall to meet my good friend Naoko for some errands. We enjoyed a few games at Timezone and treated ourselves for DQ ... I kinda missed the sweets after depriving myself from them for quite some time lah ...
Well, anyway, I decided to give my parents a second gift. I was trying to be thrifty nowadays so I'm still thinking where to treat them for a double celebration. I know I treated them out as the year started at Redbox for another double, or even triple, quadruple celebration (Christmas, New Year, sister's birthday, dad's birthday) where we really had fun and had a blast from their lunch buffet. I know my mom would feel bad if I don't treat her out too ... so for a double celebration, we all deserve to go out once more. The problem is, I got no money now to use.
My cash has been used up for all other items I bought for myself. Yes, I kinda realized I haven't pampered myself much for the last 5 years that I've been working so this time I been buying gadgets. Multi-purpose still! I don't just consider myself when buying items for myself lah! I make it a point that my sister or dad/mom could benefit from them as well. I haven't been thinking of myself all this time anyway. With that, I got no spare money for the usual treats. Though I saved up a bit thinking about this dual celebration, I also thought twice ...
Why think twice? I might stir up some reactions over this line but this is what I felt ... I felt like it's not worth treating them out anymore ... At first I thought ... Why go out when I've been spending daily for them anyway? I've been giving out my salary for this family's needs? The little savings I have, more often than not, goes to their needs? For the house expenses, etc. It's all me, me, me. I can't get a life of my own! Dammit!
A lot of thinking ... It just dawned on me that after all, they're still my parents. I only got one dad and one mom. They're both old. No one else would take care of them. I only got my sister. If not us, then who? So to make up for the lack of big blow-out, I just bought mini-cupcakes set box from Brownies ... a few sweets for them to share. And seeing that they're both happy with it makes me smile again, at least, before I go to sleep without much worries ...
Chai
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there's timezone at my place too!
Just stopped by to say hello....did you checkout my website?
@goodbyedinner - Good good! If we meet, let's play at Timezone.
@treyone40 - Hello there! Been a long time haha. Til next. :)