Lucky mom

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But, above all else, I am lucky. After a long day of going, going, going, cooking, cleaning, disciplining, folding, shopping, wiping, and frantically crafting and blogging in the moments in between, I sit down to nurse my infant. She should be sleeping, I already nursed her and rocked her, and yet here she is, awake. I pick her up and she arches her back as I pull her to me.

Time is a cruel thing. A decade and a half of alienation can make a mother and son unrecognisable to each other. When you meet Rama Devi Chowdhary and her son Mitrajit, not for a moment it appears that the two have just been united after a separation of 15 long years, such is their bonding.

The sense of being cheated by fate is one I suspect most earthlings can relate to, especially as we grieve the loss of loved ones amidst these uncertain days. Her characters dared to break their silence over issues that would normally be deemed taboo, while challenging societal perceptions with every twist of the plot. She is Grandma Wong Tsai Chin , an year-old widow so enamored with smoking that her presence is first announced by the lit end of her cigarette. After spending over half of her life working tirelessly only to be left with no financial means of keeping her cherished apartment, she decides to take her fate quite literally into her own hands, all the while being spurred by the delusional certainty that she has luck on her side, just as the Blues Brothers were convinced that their spree of vehicular carnage was justified by a mission from God. Yet the instincts for comedy Sealy built as a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Fifth Humour serve her well in other areas, particularly during the quietly tense moments when Wong must rely on her inherent craftiness, such as a gift for haggling, to steer her away from danger.