Ode to retirement...

This blogging frenzy must be spurred by the lack of it for the past few weeks. I do have many updates i wanna pen down. Hopefully my fingers could keep up with my thoughts.
My parents are officially going into retirement, after 21 years into the retail business. How exciting! How scary! How wonderful! Clashing thoughts definitely. Well, after so many years of not having them around too much at home, suddenly they are always going to be at home. At least for most part of the week. I think my family's up for hell of a ride.
My mum can be quite a control freak. All the time she's not around, i'm already a rebel in her eyes because i just couldn't stand her controlling ways. Parents should just stop treating their kids like babies, when they reach the age of 18. Because if they do, here's the result: My first sis is still a baby in her early 30s and that irony pisses the hell out of me -- the youngest. Not that i like being treated like a baby. I detest that absolutely. For me, the idea of anyone above the age of 21 and still behaving like she needs to be taken care of deserves to sleep in the streets. Set the dogs on her. Life has been too merciful to her. Someone up there should give her a wake-up call. I hate that she's still lapping up the attention my mum's showering on her when it should be the other way around. She's indulging in my mum's indulgence. And because of that, my mum thinks she should indulge in me too. Again, something i strongly detest. We should be doing the taking care of instead. (Ok, i shouldn't be bad-mouthing my sis, but she really does irritate the hell out of me. I'll stop, for now. Whatever i've written, some are for comic relief. I dislike her actions, but i have nothing against her. I don't mean it when i say "Set the dogs on her". Haha.) They've worked hard enough for us. They should be enjoying themselves now.
Having rebelled against my mum for half my life, i think she got the message. Though understanding does not mean acting on that understanding, of course. And frankly speaking, to be fair, i do get a lot of freedom. But just not enough for me. I can't imagine what's going to happen now that she's going to be always around.
Maybe that's her ploy to get her daughters' asses out and make them get married soon. Ha. Such great length she's going to. But doomed for failure, i must say, because while she's a control freak, fate is not something in her purview.
Their first assignment after retirement would be a tour to Korea in April. Yes, they should travel all they want when they're still fit and healthy. They really deserve to take it slow now. Raising four daughters, providing for a small contigent of relatives in times of need is really not an easy task. My parents are super, having toiled for the family the way they did. My dad's white hair isn't genetics probably. It's the result of the heavy burdens he carried half his life. My mum's hands aren't rough from ageing. It's proof of her tireless dedication to care for her siblings, then her children since she was ten. Gripe as i may about my mum, but i really salute her.
So after so much complaining, i guess this entry is still dedicated to celebrating their retirement and the thought of spending more time with them. Cheers to retirement!! :)