About Mom
This is the city my mom was born in.
What is Manila?
These analog music discs are played on a turntable using a stylus, or needle, spinning at 33 or 45 RPM.
What is a vinyl record/ LP/ phonograph record?
In this year, the COVID-19 pandemic caused lockdowns around the world.
What is 2020?
Before Google Maps or GPS, if you got completely lost on a road trip, you had to unfold a massive, frustratingly complex piece of paper known as this.
What is a road map?
If someone said "I'll catch you on the flip side," they were letting you know that they would see you at this time.
What is later?
Long before it became an internet prank, my mom was tearing up the dance floor to this 1987 hit during her university years.
What is Never Going To Give You Up?
This colorful toy cube became wildly popular in the 1980s.
What is the Rubik's Cube?
In this year, the Vatican and millions of people were outraged after John Lennon casually claimed that The Beatles were "more popular than Jesus."
This is also my mom's birth year.
What is 1966?
Long before Wikipedia, if you wanted to look up a fact, you had to flip through a massive, multi-volume set of heavy books bought from a door-to-door salesman, called this.
What is an encyclopedia?
If you were told to "take a chill pill," they were explicitly suggesting that you do this.
What is calm down?
Forget a standard black coffee, this is mom's go-to beverage when she is in line at the nearest Tim Hortons in need of a warm, sugary caffeine fix.
What is a French Vanilla?
"Because You Loved Me" and "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" are 1996 hits by this French-Canadian powerhouse.
Who is Céline Dion?
In this year, humans first landed on the moon.
What is 1969?
Before streaming platforms, you had to get your movies, TV shows and music by going to this place.
What is a Blockbuster/ Movie Rental store?
If a gamer or a teenager looks at you narrowly and calls you "sus," they aren't trying to say you are sustainable; they have abbreviated this 11-letter word because you could never spell it right the first time.
What is the suspicious?
This is one of mom's favourite TV shows of all time and also an inspiration for one of my names.
What is FRIENDS?
Created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, the first video uploaded to this platform was titled "Me at the zoo."
What is YouTube?
This year was the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup.
What is 1967?
Before spell-check underlined your mistakes in red, if you didn't know how to spell a word, your parents gave you some unhelpful advice to "look it up in this book"; which required knowing how to spell it in the first place.
What is a dictionary?
If you were "shipping" two characters on a TV show, they didn't mean they were putting them in a cardboard box to sail across the Atlantic; they desperately wanted them to be in this.
What is a romantic relationship?
This is what my mom was wearing when she first arrived in Canada, looking less like an immigrant and more like an extra from The Matrix or a lost member of a 90s boy band.
What is a Leather Jacket?
Stemming from a rapper's song, kids shouting these two numbers as a viral "brainrot" trend has taken over classrooms.
What is 67?
This is the year when my mom immigrated to Canada and also where just three months prior, a plane hit the second tower.
What is 2001?
If you needed to find a local plumber or pizza joint in 1995, you didn't search online; you searched this massive, doorstop of a book to the kitchen counter and flipped through its colorful pages.
What are the Yellow Pages?
If the teenagers at the party said that you had"W Rizz," they mean she has achieved the ultimate form of this slang word for charm.
What is charisma?