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Several evenings ago, the women in my family (and my little brother, the proverbial thorn) sat down to a rare dinner together. My grandma’s not as mobile as she used to be and it’s getting harder and harder for us to convince her to leave the house but on this occasion, she agreed. So went [...]
This is my cousin, Alvin. We call him Momo. Technically he’s Y’s cousin but you know, same thing. He’s one of the sweetest 12-year-olds ever. I don’t know many 12-year-olds but all two of them I know are absolute angels. Momo loves our dog, Moses. He wanted a photo with Moses and asked me [...]
Chinese New Year has never been a big deal for me. When I was younger, I never appreciated the get-together opportunity this festival afforded, simply because I was too young to appreciate re-connecting with long-lost cousins and aunties and uncles that I actually cared about. Every year for 23 years, I joined the season [...]
Snapshots from my cousin’s wedding the Friday past. It was the first time I’d ever seen a presider, as they called the priest who officiated the ceremony, launch into a very extended and angry tirade midway through the occasion because people were talking and taking photographs.
Someone obviously forgot to remind him it was [...]
For the first time in 23 years, I am spending Chinese New Year in KL. I’ll be honest, my sisters and I haven’t been enjoying our yearly CNY pilgrimage to Penang in recent years for a variety of reasons which I shall not deign to disclose, and to say that they are most envious [...]
Some of you would have heard about Part I, some of you might even remember being witness to it. It was at Y’s Chinese New Year open house, where there were lots of people. Last Saturday, we had the sequel. And this time, there were no witnesses.
My brother and sisters remember only two [...]
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