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? / What is an LP? / What is a 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 told Ruth to "catch you on the flip side," they were letting her know they would see her 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 movie Frozen was released.
What is 2013?
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 a coworker told Ruth to "take a chill pill," they were explicitly suggesting that she 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 you could easily look up phone numbers online, every house had a massive, heavy book dropped on their doorstep that was named after this bright color.
What are the Yellow Pages? (Or white pages)
If Ruth walked into a party in 1995 and someone shouted, "All that and a bag of chips!" they were declaring that she was this.
What is the absolute best / perfect?
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 Google Translate existed, if Ruth needed to translate a word, she had to flip through a tiny, physical pocket book known as a bilingual one of these.
What is a dictionary?
If someone told Ruth they 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?
Stemming from a rapper's song, kids shouting these two sequential numbers as a viral "brainrot" trend has taken over classrooms.
What is 67?
This is the year when Ruth immigrated to Canada and also where just three months prior, a plane hit the second tower.
What is 2001?
Before Shazam could identify any song in three seconds, if you heard a track you liked on the radio, you just had to sit there, cross your fingers, and hope the DJ did this.
What is say the name of the song?
If the teenagers at the party tell Ruth she has "W Rizz," they aren't talking about her driver's license. They mean she has achieved the ultimate form of this slang word for charm
What is charisma? (A "Win" in charisma)