My mother's generation are always appalled at the young generation's choices or ways of life. They want things to run for us smoothly and, as they say, with no defiance. She, like other people of her age, has gone through so much that life has taught her to be quite different from her children including me. Born after Cambodia freed itself from France, she, in her late teen, suffered, sweltered in the Khmer Rouge regime. (I promise myself to write about her, just like what author Frank McCourt w...