I really want to kept this moment when my mom and me laugh so hard together. I remember the time that we laughed together, the day we still together in that big house in the capital ciity. I’m the eldest daughter so she mianly use me to do things she wants. Example one day, in that big house we had parking lot and yard. We had a black middle size dog. We had fish ponds, the big one and the small one. The thing is my mom, she wants to move the small fish pond from another corner to another corber so we could have a bigger space for parking lot. We do remove fish in the pond to a bucket and we removed water out from half of it. And we started help carried this heavy thing and moved. She said
”Count 1 – 3 and we’ll move to the left”
”1..2..3…”
Then we turned around like a circle because she didn’t said her left or my left. Then we placed it down and look at each other. She started to have a little upset with me, I think she thinking about what to scold me. Then again she said
”Now we’ll move to the right”
”1..2..3…”
Again we carried this really really heavy fish pond into circle. Then she gonna start to scold me for real because it was really heavy for two girls to heavy and I still dumbass play around. Which I actually didn’t play around. I just do exactly what she told. First she said to the left I went to the left side, again she said to the right, I saw my mistake from the first time so I went to her right. Lol. Now I’m started thinking of it, I laughed so hard. The thing really heavy. So she started to scold me but she saw my face that I didn’t intend to made her tired and she also saw my face that its really tired to carried this heavy thing so she burst to laughed. I told
”Again, this time…. your left or my left mommy ?” with the exhausted voice.
Now she laughed so hard. I saw her laughed face made me relieved because I thought I was going to been scolded from did stupid thing. She laughed and continue said
”your left…”
So I went to correct direction this time, but she still non-stop laugh at me no matter how hard she tried to stop it. Once I saw that, it even made me burst out laughed also, so I said
”Mommy… please don’t laugh, this thing is heavy, when you laugh its make me laughed too and its strenghless…”
Now she laughed so hard, because she leave the fish pond and I’m the only one who was holding it.
”Mommy…. it’s heavy!”
She laughed.
”Hahahahahaha!”
We keep laughed and stop laughed and laughed again together for about 15 minutes. We try to remove more water in it also and finally we can moved the fish pond the the very right corner. That her facial expression made me happy so much. We not tired from move heavy thing, we tired from laughed so hard together. The happy tired.

So about the sashimi laugh. Yesterday after business meeting, we went to have lunch together. Lately my mom not usally have breakfast before she started work and sometimes she missed the lunch too because of her busy appointment with customers. That made her has stomachached times to times because of her acid. But yesterday was fine, we went to sashimi buffet lunch. She drove me to the restaurant and we sat at the table, she faced inside the restaurant I faced outside to the window. We talked normal stuff like
”Why you not faced outside ?”
”I lost my sunglasses, I’m still annoyed about it”
”Please called to car insurance that you wants to fix something and open claim with call center, then later you can drove this car to garage to fix it”
”Yes, mommy”
”What city you going to visit in China ?”
”Shan Dong”
”How’s the weather will be there?”
I gave her my gloves and asked her normal stuff and ordered meal to eat together. Normally when we have buffet we always agreed that we will order only what we will eat, no need to order for others because once we can’t finished it, the shop will fine us and can’t take away. My order served first so I started eating it. Her order served after I finsihed my first plate and she started eating it too. We ate and we talked. Her favourite plate is Tuna Sashimi. My favourite plate was just normal mixed all sashimi together and beef sushi with foie gras on top. We asked, we answered each other about all normal stuff. I also told her to do travel insurance also, in case that she get sick from change weather so she can go to good hospital and insruance still cover for the expenses. Then she asked
”What is it on top of Takoyaki ?”
”I’m not sure let me ask the waitress” ”How to called this thing ?”
”I don’t know ma’am, let me ask the chef”
Then my mom and me looked at each other and started to smile. The waitress came back and said
”It’s dried fish slice ma’am”
”Thank you”
I saw my mom tried to cut her beef into pieces so I asked
”Why you do that ?”
”I don’t like the fat tendon, it’s hard to chew and not delicious”
When I almost finished all my order, my mom start asking
”Why you not take this pork slice plate at all ?”
”I didn’t oder it” ”You order it, you finish it”
”I order it because I thought you will eat it too”
”Wait a minute, we agreed everytime we had buffet, we order only what we eat”
”You eat too less”
”I ate a lot, the waitress remove my empty plates out so it’s look like nothing which it’s not”
”Try it! Help me finish it”
I started to laugh inside my mind. So I pick one of it up and put in my mouth and start to chewed. It’s hard texture and so salty. I made my facial expression like I shouldn’t take it at all
”What is this sauce ? Its so salty. Oh….”
And my mom, she started laugh at it so she took another slice put in my miso soup and said
”Washed it with soup first so it less salty”
So I ate another pork slice after her instruction
”It still tasty, let me have some soup… (I sip that miso soup)… Oh! This is super salty!”
”Hahahaha”
”Mom, now everything salty”
Then I sip a coca cola
”This is too sweet too”
And she non-stop laugh at me. I tried to finish her order so we can finish and go. I open some menu thinking of what to order to clear this salty taste in my mouth
”I have one mango ice cream please”
My mom order with waitress. I looked at her and think she not even finished her plate yet and now she order her desert
”I have one lime ice cream please”
I told the waitress. Then my mom asked me
”You ordered something you wanna eat, I thought you going to oder some more meal”
”Oh mommy, I was thinking what to order to rinse my mouth but I see all menu look greasy”
She start laughed again. I continue to finish the pork slice and I said
”There is no vegetable menu at all”
She said she ordered already but it not served yet. So I followed with waitress the grilled oringi mushroom
”4 plates of this please”
And not long moment, the mushroom was served, it come with 8 sticks, I asked my mom
”How many you order ?”
”4”
”It’s 8 now”
My mom looked at the waitress, the waitress said
”It’s 2 sticks each plate ma’am”
My mom repeated to me
”It’s 2 each plate, I ordered”
My eyes wide open
”Omgsh… that oily mushroom”
My mom laughed and use napkin place on those mushrooms to make it less oily. I took some of it together with the pork piece and put in my mouth
”Oh it so oily”
I tired to make it taste better by put tomate on top of the mushroom and the pork slice.
”This would help”
My mom put some her tea water rinse the pork slice for me
I put it to my mouth
”It’s not help at all, even tomato are too salty too”
My mom laughed. I asked waitress
”What is this sauce in pork slice plate ?”
”I don’t know ma’am, let me ask the Chef”
Me and my mom looked at each other and we start to laugh again
”It’s Wagyu sauce ma’am”
”It is very salty. It’s too much”
I told the waitress and she smiled at me.
”Mommy, remember this Wagyu sauce and never order it again”
She laughed at me and finish her mango ice cream and ordered another milk ice cream. When she finished it then she ‘burp’ out loud and she continue talked like nothing happened. I look at the waitress, obviously she can hear us
”Omgsh…….Mommy!”
Then we laughed. Like non-stop laughing.
”It’s that you not said ‘excuse me’ at all but you continue talking like nothing happened”
”Hahahahaha… even the waitress laughed too”
My mom said that. I barely look to the waitress in the eyes. And I saw my mom facial expression like she wants to laugh so much but she need to hold it because we in restaurant and the waitress could hear us but she can’t help it the laugh. That even make me burst out the laugh harder.
”I think these plates put marijuana in it, that’s why we can’t stop laugh at all”
I said that with the laugh voice with my mom still laughing at it but this time I heard the laugh noise from the waitress too.
”Omgsh… mommy!”
”We need to come this buffet restaurant only when we really starving otherwise we eat so little”
I looked at her eyes, I knew she just change the topic… her eyes met my eyes and she knew what I was thinking then she laughed…

We laughed so hard that lunch and I felt so good to make her laugh especially when she laughed with me and I heard her laughter. The way back I was thinking in my mind that of course she will harsh on me with other people, same me that I harsh on her sometimes with myself of version. But still what we have its affection and this is the relationship I know and was built into it. I love my mom. Even how harsh we’ve been to each other. I knew she loves me too.