a letter to Ama
December 25th, 2005 by kittyfelicianaDear Ama
How are you? How’s uncle and your two boys?
It has been a while since I wrote something to you. I would hope that you would forgive me for this. It has been some months since I had not look back to what I had left in
Perth
. Things have changed, but still, I am your daughter always…
How is
Perth
? I guess Australian are still keen in talking about the weather. I believe in this time of the year, the weather is not that good. I mean, I have been there, done that, it must have been very warm down there. We had lots of rain for the past few days. I have the privilege to not washing my car because of some reasons. Beside I do not think I have the time.
Most of my 24 hours and 7 days spent on this square desk at my office. I had no idea that one day I will be tied up with a job. It is not like when we used to work at Maya Masala. I was terrified physically and emotionally. Now, it is something else…
People started to depends on me and I was not thinking of ready fulfilling those expectations. People see me at many degrees. Some positive and some negative. Some has hopes and some has suspicion. Some are being supportive, and some can be very unhelpful. I was not thinking that I am ready to stand up on my own and make some people stand for me.
I guess life was so much simpler when we used to be together. Life was only about doing assignment, making dinner with a budget, getting from one bus to another and walking to Northbridge picking you up. And of course, what could be better than a fine dinner at your place?
I miss you so much and I really miss all the mother and daughter moments. I still have all your recipes. Not in my computer, not in my recipes collection, not even in my brain. It’s in my heart, and I have no idea what are they doing there…
My family started too worried about how I live. Then I took one Sunday morning to rethink everything all over again, what were I and other people thinking? What is the point of getting up, working, making money and trying very hard to get a good night sleep?
This is where the “religious” have to come in a place. What was I thinking?
However, do not worry; it only took me one fine day to realize everything. There was a time when I had lunch with my cousin. We talked about life. A talked that we used to dreamt of when we were a little girl: someday, we will talk about a life. And grown up life.
She was very surprise when I had the master plan just came out from my strategic marketing book. It was too realistic and sophisticated, she wasn’t sure that was a life (I’m sure she thought that was just one of my plans for this product I was trying to develop). No, it was I, I am the product and I’m trying to develop it.
Then she asked me to rethink-think-think again. What was the problem with miracle? Why wasn’t it in the plan? That is where I try to borrow the
Perth
’s spirit. And there it was… a miracle…
When I stepped to
Perth
for the first time, I didn’t have any plan. I see my self as drowning in an oasis. Just let it flow. Expect the unexpected and just DO IT!
In that one fine day, I’m trying to put on my swimming gears and swim in that OASIS. Just do it! And yeah, I did it…
I met this moment, I met this situation and I met this person. As I want to, I wasn’t expecting anything from this person. Just do it, just feel it, just enjoy it. And I realize that when we expected it the last, you would realize it actually come first. My life changed like a flipped coins. Just in those seconds, my plans ended up in my laptop and I’m ready to deal with my flexible plan with him. It also changed how I feel and treat lives surround me.
Still, I’m sad because I couldn’t share this happiness with you and your family. All those suggestions and wise thought that you told me are singing in my head when I talk to people, as if those wise thought are my own. I miss my mother.
In this Christmas day, I miss you the most. I’m wishing you the best Christmas ever and please don’t ever forget me madam…
I hope that I can bring him down to
Perth
and introduce him to you and everybody. It has been always a pleasure for me to share my happiness with you and your family, just like I have always share it with you. Thank you for everything mother…
Love you
Kitty Feliciana







