Tuesday, January 24
cny twenty twelve.
chinese new year twenty twelve.saturday.
reunion dinner with ah gong and ah ma.
sunday.
reunion dinner with yeh yeh.
he came in a wheelchair.
he didn't complain.
he didn't even speak much.
he drank coke.
he needed help to get up from the chair.
he walked really slowly.
monday - day one.
nice dress from cousin.
offered mommy and daddy tea.
three of us.
went to visit yeh yeh at his home in changi.
he spoke more.
he said the old people in his home made the cny decorations.
he asked me about whether my pen had refills.
he told me why people hang the 'fu' upside down during cny.
i told him i sent his photo for a competition and won.
glad to hear him speak more.
we usually would go to an uncle's house.
but this year we didn't.
he passed away last year.
no more taking photos on the roof top with cousins.
ah ma and ah gong.
love her cooking.
ah gong washing dishes.
cousins.
hugs ah ma.
diakest kolega came.
ah ma cooked bee hoon.
tuesday - day two.
macdonald's breakfast with family.
picked ah ma.
she treated us to durian.
went to kim poh's house and shop only to realise she is in hospital.
she used to open a fruit shop there.
i used to go there with ah ma when i was very young.
kim poh's shop would have a yakult fridge.
i remember opening the fridge to take grape yakult to drink.
today, about twenty years later.
the place has changed.
but the yakult fridge is still there.
memories.
saw ah ma's sister too whom i haven't seen in ages.
met many relatives whom i didn't quite know who they were.
later i found out that they are my ah ma's brother's children.
we sat a while and made our way to NUH.
she said when ppl are old, how much money also no use.
she doesn't know you.
she looks older.
older than before.
back to work tomorrow.
sometimes having too much time isn't good either.
idle brain ends up thinking about too many random things.
help me to trust.