The Situation Room • Stirrings of Childhood

Michelle

Home Life

Frequent phrases used by my mum (not for nagging just as a tease)
Q: 今晚食咩呀？(What are we gonna eat for tonight?)
A: 食蕉/風/你。跟我入廚房。(Eat bananas/ wind/ you. Follow me into the kitchen.)

Frequent things said by parents
你睇吓人地… …

Listening to Cantopop in my father’s car/ at home from radio played by my mum (my mum tuned into the radio all the time when I was in primary school)

Singers like Eason Chan
K歌之王 or 浮誇, 可惜我是水瓶座 or 少女的祈禱
Hourglass My World

I even know some songs from Leslie Cheung
追

The endless loop of Stephen Chow movies on TV on Sunday 道地星期日影院 or something…

Food: the ones you can get from primary school snack shop: 魚肉燒賣 (fish paste siu mai) and the 腸粉 (steamed rice roll) I can get as I walk home after school (still primary school). My mum likes adding sesame sauce and sweet sauce. Best if there is actual sesame on top.

    Michelle Wong

    Hi there, this is Michelle! I love exploring different types of writing, which is why I double-majored in English Studies and Translation, and minored in Journalism and Media Studies. I now write both creatively and journalistically in my spare time. Find more of my work at https://michelletlw.wordpress.com.

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