ON HOPE AND EXPECTATION
" Afterwards, you eat these onion leaves and swallow the hard boiled egg, you will then become smart and never score zero in your exam."
My Mother - 1965, while walking me to my school for my first day in my standard one class, carrying a small onion plant and a hard boiled egg. ( Onion, spoken to sound like CHONG - meaning smart or inteligent in our dialet; egg, representing zero because of it's shape?)
My Mother - 1965, while walking me to my school for my first day in my standard one class, carrying a small onion plant and a hard boiled egg. ( Onion, spoken to sound like CHONG - meaning smart or inteligent in our dialet; egg, representing zero because of it's shape?)
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