Happy Birthday Who!

Today is my grandmother's 80th birthday. My brother, cousins, and I call her "Who" because that means grandmother on my mother's side of the family in our family's dialect of Cantonese. She has never used a computer but she deserves recognition on my website because without her there would be no rwongphoto.com website.

She didn't want one this year so this is last years birthday cake.

She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and moved to China with her family after a couple years but was forced to flee the country back to Boston during World War II when the Japanese military invaded the Chinese countryside. She remained in Boston until the early 1950's when she married my grandpa. He lived in Pasadena, California so she moved out here to live with him after their cross-country honeymoon. She has lived in Pasadena ever since and that is where I spent most of my childhood with my cousins. My grandfather passed away right before Christmas in 1997 and two days after I got my driver's license. He was very happy and I wished I had an opportunity to drive him as a licensed driver but I did drive him a few times when I had a permit. So here we are a little more than nine years later and my grandmother is still going strong. I hope I can have that type of health when I get up there in age.