"If you want to offer, don't ask; if you want to ask, don't offer."
Tan Poh Sian (1934-2002), my mother.
One of her epigrammatic responses, when asked if she needed a drink of water whenever I noticed that she was tired. Used to rankle me. Then as a young child, I did not understand it. I think I do now.
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