Communication, what's your problem?
I'm starting to worry about communication problems and such. Remember the match making session my brother had and was deemed successful? The match made is in town and around our house.
I go home the day before, I see her. I go home yesterday, I see her. She's so far been referred to as "the woman". I don't know about others but "the woman" sounds so vixen like - the human type - or was it "the other woman"? So, I've been seeing her but have I heard from her yet? The answer is a quiet yes. Quiet. She's been so quiet. I can understand the pressure of meeting some guy's rowdy family and not being able to fit in right away but where's her voice?
OK. In fact the whole purpose of this post here is the voice or rather what comes out of it - speech. She speaks Hokkien and Hokkien alone - maybe a pinch of salt Bahasa Indonesian. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with that. Marriage to her is not my concern. I'm a woman and I walk the straight road. Someone significant might though. And that someone significant is my brother's 12 year old daughter. My niece speaks English with her Dad and Chinese with my parents. I've yet to see them communicate with each other though I truly hope to hear from my niece's point of view - and I can't coz we're not close, I'm not a very good auntie you see.
Disclaimer: Yet seeing them communicate does not mean they do not communicate. Being the bed and TV loving person that I am, I usually head straight to my bed to watch TV after dinner and a long bath. So for all I know, they might have exchanged notes from Urban Mths, Armpit Hairs, Jolin Tsai to Powerpuff Girls.
Regardless, I shall stand/sit/whatever and watch as the story unfolds, however bizarre it might seem to this tiny brain of mine. The bizarre love triangle of family communication, English, Chinese, Hokkien, Dad, Daughter, (Future) Step Mum, (Future) Step Daughter, (Future) Husband, (Future) Wife.
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