- My grandfather once drove me all over town so I could look for my favourite magazines. He was the closest thing I had to a father.
- My grandmother makes the best keropok lekor. I mean, all she did was fry them, really, but it tasted so good. The damn things really do taste better when she fries them up for me.
- The sight of my grandfather laughing his head off that time when my younger brother fell into the lake while trying to feed the ducks.
- My grandmother giving me super-sweetened coffee when I was, what, eight? Nine? I didn't ask for it, by the way.
- My grandfather was the one who taught me to trust that everything happens for a reason, to have faith that everything will work out for the best.
- My grandmother's tendency to panic over everyone else's driving skills. Car rides with her are hilarious so long as you're not the one driving and getting squawked at.
- I've been told that it was my grandmother who taught me to eat mi hun goreng (stir-fried rice noodles) with keropok ikan (fish crackers). To this day, I can't eat one without the other.
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