On Friday, November 4, 2016 at 4:37:42 PM UTC-7, rst9 wrote:
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> > Speak for yourself, Yale Guen Mar. Everyone else knows the facts.
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> Satish, don't you ever learn about American life?
> Strict parents and American teenagers are a explosive combination.
> Everyone would like to see them dead.
> Now, stop your silly posts.
Yale Guen Mar, did you know that the two daughters of Tiger Mom, Amy Chua, knew nothing of the "explosive combination" that you are talking of as a self-appointed pundit?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/daughters-of-tiger-mom-share-how-theyre-doing-215800303.html
The daughters Sophia and Lulu have had a normal life, “Both [of] her daughters are so polite, modest and thoughtful, it seems Amy has had the last laugh at the critics who predicted they would grow up into mentally ill, friendless robots.”
Yale Guen Mar, you'll have to think up some other excuse to account for your abnormally bitter outbursts against your parents, Tony Chee Mar and Kim Hi Wong.
If you reject and don't respect what little you have, Yale Guen Mar, that's crass ingratitude.
Ingratitude is verily the essence of vileness.
And you, Yale Guen Mar, are verily vile.
Be grateful to Tony Chee Mar and to Kim Hi Wong for what little you have achieved insted of whining and screaming about the times you got punished.
And, yes, do visit lot 49 at East Palm cemetery in Tucson, AZ. Learn from siblings Donald, Eugene and Ellen how to honor your parents. Learn from cousins Homer, Gini, Lawrence and Clarence how to honor your ancestors.
Remember that you own Tony Chee Mar and Kim Hi Wong for what little you have to celebrate your life.
Tony Chee Mar saw you for the first time in 1949 when you were a 11-year old boy who landed in San Francisco after fleeing Hong Kong to escape Communist rule. Tony Chee Mar was a US citizen. He manfully certified that you were his son so that you too could be a US citizen. How dare you curse him for helping you and your mother to flee Communist China to become citizens in the land of the free and the land of the brave?
Yale Guen Mar the first words you heard from your "dad" in this New world? Tony Chee Mar told you that it was Thanksgiving and that you were going to have turkey. Wonder-struck, you asked Tony Chee Mar, "What is Thanksgiving? What is turkey?"
Much water has flown under the Golden Gate Bridge since that Thanksgiving encounter. Tony Chee Mar and Kim Hi Wong brought you up in this new land. He gave you a job in his cafe. You had every opportunity to be as accomplished as your younger half-siblings Donald, Eugene and Ellen.. But to no avail. He wasted your future.
You blame Kim Hi Wong for beating you. But what else could she do to keep you on the straight and narrow? I blame Kim Hi Wong not for beating you but for not beating you enough. She should have beaten the crap out of you every time you acted irresponsibly and even vilely.
Kim Hi Wong did not enjoy beating you. She beat you because she had to for your own good. And afte each beating, Kim Hi Wong talked to sister-in-law Susan Suey Oy Wong and cried in anguish - Kim would tell Susan how mch it hurt to have to beat you.
Yale Guen Mar, this is what you wrote of your parents ten years ago (in 2006) when they were both gone (it was too little and too late):
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.culture.china/ee6C3jdVajw
On Monday, December 25, 2006 at 5:09:23 PM UTC-8,
rst0...@yahoo.com wrote:
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> I am very much interested in hearing from Chinese-Americans within the
> United States on how their aged parents/grandparents were faring in
> their sunset years. It was ironic for me growing up in a small town,
> living in California most of my adult life about a thousand miles from
> "home". As each of us gets older and educated, we leave "home" only to
> come "home" for visit once or twice a year. My sibblings live in
> Tucson about 125 miles away leaving my parents alone at "home". To me,
> "home" was, is and will always be 914 10th St. and I never take any of
> my things from "home" to California.
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> Then my father got sick and checked into the hospital. My brother in
> Tucson returned "home" and talked to the doctor, who said my father may
> be in hospital for about a week. Since my mother can not speak English
> and alone at home, he decided to transfer my father to Tucson Medical
> Center where he works and move my mother to a retirement home in
> Tucson. The house was sold. "Home" is no more. All my college year
> photos were gone, my short-wave radio, my gun collection, everything in
> my bedroom, including the photos of my favorite pigs, were thrown away
> or given away without telling me.
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> My father recovered and moved into the retirement home with my mother,
> each taken up a room with a cost of $1,200/month each for a total of
> $2,400. With no outside activities and eat and sleep, my father died
> in 15 months later. My mother died two years later after my father. I
> believe my mother died of loneliness and neglect. I have 3 sibblings
> living in Tucson, not one would visit and talk to my mother often
> enough to care.
>
Yale Guen Mar, 914 10th Street in Phoenix should have been like your home. Instead you chose to make it a storage place for your contrabands.
Yale Guen Mar, can't you ever get over the loss of your gun collection, photos of your favorite pigs and your short-wave radio? Donald, Ellen and Eugene were only trying to protect you from yourself.
Yale Guen Mar, you are being grossly unfair to your brothers Eugene Yale Mar and Donald Yale Mar and sister Ellen Heath. They were achievers. The only reason they got rid of your gun collection, short-wave radio and the photos of your favorite pigs was to save you from yourself.
Quit holding grudges against Donald, Eugene and Ellen, get their help to cope with your problems.
At Qingming Festival every year, pay respect to your parents Tony Chee Mar and Kim Hi Wong, and all relatives and ancestors who have passed away. Spend time tidying up the graves and tombstones of Tony Chee Mar and Kim Hi Wong. Offer food, flowers and paper money to your ancestors.
Remember the debt you owe to your parents.
Don't wait till the Quingming Festival. November 5 this year, Tony Chee Mar would have turned 101. Rush to Tucson, AZ to honor him.