I was blessed to be born when my grandparents celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary, and thus I'm named Yin Fern (sounds like silver marriage in Chinese). I'm Mama and A-Kong's first grandchild and was the pearl of the family. They showered me with love and tender loving care. I saw a side of them that was very different than what their children saw. Kong-Kong was gentle, patient and totally loving towards me, and Mama was even more so. I remember staying with them all the time at my grandparents' house, while my mom took care of my little brothers in her own house. Mama took great care of me, dressing me and feeding me when I was little and teaching me to read in both Chinese and English when I started school. I had such a wonderful childhood growing up with my grandparents and two dear aunties (2 Kor and 3 Kor). They would take me and my brother A-Pong on vacations, together with 2 Kor and 3 Kor, once on a cruise and many times to view all

Dear Mama,
It is only upon growing older that I even begin to understand the depth of your love and sacrifice in raising your family, one that I am so grateful to be part of. 
In every visit to Penang all through my childhood, I received your unconditional affection even as I could not reciprocate or fully grasp it; even as I knew so little about your life’s journey and the abundance of caregiving you had already devoted to so many before me.
Learning more about you gradually through listening to my parents and reading these tributes, memories I carry of even the littlest moments with you take on a new weight: the way you call my name so happily each time we arrive in York road and give a big hug by the front door, the soft-boiled egg in the morning, once giving my brother and I Ribena that you’d prepared so long before we arrived that a whole line of ants had already crawled into it, trying to learn mahjong and losing, and later, view all