What's up?

Nana is so tired of this phrase now!

When she talked with her friend on MSN, with a "what's up?" as response, Nana felt sad immediately.
"Must need something urgent, then can talk to you meh?" Nana asked.
"HAHA, No, it's just an expression. You haven't been in Singapore long enough!"

Today, she called back home, and received the same response from her mom, "What's up?", without any enthusiasm.
Nana got angry immediately. "Nothing, if i don't have any reason, then i should not call back, right? If so, i'll just hang up now!"
After talking with her mum for a while, Nana's mum wanted to hand over the phone to her father, however, her father reluctantly accepted the phone, claiming that nothing to say.
Nana:"OK! I'm hanging up! Bye bye!"
Tears came out at that moment...

Since when, since when has the relationship become so vulnerable? Every time Nana calls back home, the conversation is always very simple. "What are you doing?" "Have you eaten?" "Are you still working?" "Make something delicious to eat."

When Nana says, "I got the exchange program to go to Perth." "Oh."
When Nana says, "I got the internship with Ernst & Young." "Oh."

Since when, since when, the conversation has become so meaningless? I know, i know that i'm always independent, and you are assured that I can live on my own, i can study without anyone monitoring.

So what? It still serves the purpose of recognising a "home" every time when i call back. And it just broke the little hope in my mind!

I hate that phrase! And I'm not calling back home for 1 month!