Now and Then

Me: "YF's going to his grandma's house today."
Mum: "Oh. You see they really do it dutifully here."
Me: "Once a month."
Mum: "Once a month..."
After a while.
Mum: "You see other people visit their grandma routinely. Do you ever think of yours?"
Me: "Er yeah, sometimes."
Mum: "You've always written letters only when we told you to."
Me: "I'd have remembered more about my past if we visited more often when I was little."
Mum: "What are you talking about? I brought you to visit on every weekend."
Me: "(Not *every* weekend.) I mean in Singapore. We should have gone back more often. When I was little. I'd have remembered more."
Mum: "You could still write and call."
Me: "No, going back is different. We didn't go back for 6 years. (Trying to be the 1st gen or something?)"
Mum: "Why didn't we go back? You have just started school and I didn't want to disrupt your studies. If you'd gone back at every vacation... humph."
Me: "I wouldn't have found that such a pity. I don't remember anything that I'd done during my school vacations. I didn't do anything except staying at home. (We hadn't even gone out around Singapore.)"
Mum: "!!"