Hi, my name is Xiu Ing, my grandma told me that "Xiu" means pretty and "Ing" mean smart. So that are the hope and prayer my parrents & grandpatrents had when I was born as first born in the family.
But everyone called me "Ing-Ing" since it is easier.
All my grandparrents born and raise in China, however they move to Archipelago country, Indonesia, due to political problem there years ago. But we still keep most of our chinese tradition...except.. i don't speak chinese..hahaha..
Learning chinese was banned in my country when my mom & dad grew up. So that's why we only use "Bahasa" as our daily language
Ok, back to the story
My mom and dad knew each other since they were in middle school. They met while teaching in sunday school, my mom play piano, while my dad on guitar.
My mom tought the toddlers, while my dad handle the preteens. Ah and they were serving in my uncle (from my dad side) church
They weren't dating back than, my mom always said my dad was like younger brother she never have ( she is 1 year older than my dad)
They continued this kind of friendship until collage, my mom oftenly went to my dad collage to help him take notes / draw some work.
Everytime i hear this story i always tought that this is soooo romantic. Isn't it? It's like in the movie.
My mom always been a daddy's little girl, she is very close with her dad. And even until now she always told me how amazing father my grandpa was.. i think she idolized him a lot.
She even enter economic major to made him happy (chinese standard choice back than) even though she actually love kids more and wanted to enter psycology/teacher major deep down in her heart.
However, life is cruel, we need to admit that, my grandpa passed away when my mom in 7th semester, He never saw her graduate, and my mom lost her reason to stay in collage, so she quit.
She is not close with her mom, and all her sister-in-law hate her, simply because my grandpa left more for her than for their husband.
So she left house and married with my dad.
My grandma totally against it, because they are from different class.
If you know chinese culture, than you will know that they have hierarcy based on family name, social&economi status, and tribe.
But my grandpa sister give them the blessing..so it happen anyway.
The struggled to start though, as they really start from zero. Tried many different jobs & bussiness (off course the money come from my mom).
However when they got news that my mom was pregnant..it give them joy. Especially when they know that it was girl, as they always wanted it to be.
And if you guess that it is me..than you are correct!
So this is the background of my life,
See you in the next chapter!♡
Thanks for reading this far♡
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Do "Ing" Life
No Ficción"Ing".. this simple 3 letter are always put behind other words. "Ing".. the word that have no meaning on its own, but it give live to any word it put together with. "Ing" point out that what important is now, not past,nor future. how ever what ever...
