You understand?!

慧 is correcting my mum's English on a regular basis now. Recently she came across the word "trillion" (I have no idea how) but know not what it means. She asked my mum who did not know the word either, so they KIVed the issue, opting to ask me or her parents. Whichever came first.

Well, it turned out that I came first. I was on the phone when my mum suddenly remembered it,

"Acey, "teelion" 甚麽意思啊？"

From the background,"Ma ma 不對!是"trillion"!"

""teelion"?"

"不對！是"trillion"! Ma ma, you understand?!"

"Acey, le kua le kua, tak jit siah cheh dio pek gah wah tao cak teng liao!" (direct translation: Acey, you see you see, she goes to school and picks up some new stuff, then starts to climb all over my head!)

Don't ask me about my attempts to explain "trillion" to her either.

60 days to go.