woke up at around 10am today to get ready and leave house for visiting today. first stop was Old Saints' Home over at upper serangoon road, we were gonna visit late ah gong's ashes there. when all the uncles' and their families arrived, we prayed for ah gong in silence. i thought about him since it had been such a really long time that i've not thought about him. you know, its right to say that when someone passes away, you literally forget about the person. but the reason we visited him first thing in this new lunar new year was to commemorate him after all this while. pa always asks Cheyenne without fail when we get there,"you remember who this is?" this gave me much thought actually.. what if one died and nobody remembered? hrrrm. during the moment of silence i spoke to ah gong from the bottom of my heart, telling him how everyone was doing and how i myself was doing. i can still remember that he would ask me how i was doing when he was still alive. and the most memorable thing would be when i pushed his wheelchair around before he passed away. and i could remember the nurse telling me that i was such a good boy. that was when he was really ill and they had to put him in this centre for the aged and sick. that experience really meant a lot to me and yah, i must say, i was the only cousin who could push ah gong before he passed away. it has already been 5 quick years that ah gong has left us. i was a lucky young grandchild who was born with all 4 grandparents still around. this made me unable to imagine what some friends' situation were.. some hadn't seen their grandparents at all while i had seen all and could speak to them whenever i wanted to. this made me afraid, afraid for the fact that i didn't wanna know how it would feel like when all my grandparents were gone... so treasure your grandparents, like how i realised that ah ma holding my hand when she saw me this morning was that meaningful. at the place where late people's ashes are put, (i don't know what you call that place) there was this father who brought his son and daughter to visit their mum's ashes. and the kids were really small.. lower primary? this made me think even more... no mother? that would lead to many more things that i won't even dare to think of.
after that we headed to one of the uncle's houses for lunch. it was canadian pizza and LOTS OF CNY GOODIES! caleb and calvin were good hosts and they kept serving and serving us.. yes.. as usual the pig here can't resist temptations and had a lot to eat! after that visit there it was off to our house with the rest of the relatives. they came over and we kinda slacked. watch this korean movie which made us laugh quite abit and we continued eating! mum bought so many CNY goodies that it was simply irresistable. little hong xun was so adorable and he kept wanting me to feed him dried mangoes! here's how little hong xun looks like when he attempts to smile he is so cute lah. the cousins were all so amused with him. they just love bullying him and taking shots of him. hah. x)
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