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In our Melaka house, writing while everyone else is fast asleep. A little jumpy and extremely cautious of my surroundings because of the many stories I used to hear about the trees , the behind house.. Ok, spooking myself out, let's move on to other news.
Got to see close to the whole family today! It's tradition for us to be at my Aunty's house on the morning of New Year's, drive down to Melaka and visit the grandaunties &uncles, be at mum's Mum's by evening time and drive further down to Merlimau to stay the night. We live in a house that's close to being in the middle of nowhere and we have a treehouse in our backyard. We've got a ciku and durian trees. chicken, duck, geese and turkey in a fenced up area behind and an aquarium in the living room, with fish that seem to never grow and are different every year.
There are coconut trees that line the road where you drive through to get to the house and they've got a new puppy my Granduncle named Ong Ong :) Cutest pup & name ever! Hahaha. This house was my great grandfather's, who passed it down to his son, who expanded it and built new rooms to accommodate the whole family, with his own two hands.
Our family's reunion dinner is tomorrow. We have barbecue every year and my grandauntie who makes nasi lemak that's as good a drug (not that I know) will be cooking pots of it, along with sambal, kangkung and her to-die-for chicken rendang. And for every year, my cousins, aunties, uncles, grandaunties, granduncles and family friends will gather to have dinner & a bawl of a time. The highlights of these nights are usually the weird things adults say when they've had a little more than too much to drink :p They get us laughing for hours!
In our Melaka house, writing while everyone else is fast asleep. A little jumpy and extremely cautious of my surroundings because of the many stories I used to hear about the trees , the behind house.. Ok, spooking myself out, let's move on to other news.
Got to see close to the whole family today! It's tradition for us to be at my Aunty's house on the morning of New Year's, drive down to Melaka and visit the grandaunties &uncles, be at mum's Mum's by evening time and drive further down to Merlimau to stay the night. We live in a house that's close to being in the middle of nowhere and we have a treehouse in our backyard. We've got a ciku and durian trees. chicken, duck, geese and turkey in a fenced up area behind and an aquarium in the living room, with fish that seem to never grow and are different every year.
There are coconut trees that line the road where you drive through to get to the house and they've got a new puppy my Granduncle named Ong Ong :) Cutest pup & name ever! Hahaha. This house was my great grandfather's, who passed it down to his son, who expanded it and built new rooms to accommodate the whole family, with his own two hands.
Our family's reunion dinner is tomorrow. We have barbecue every year and my grandauntie who makes nasi lemak that's as good a drug (not that I know) will be cooking pots of it, along with sambal, kangkung and her to-die-for chicken rendang. And for every year, my cousins, aunties, uncles, grandaunties, granduncles and family friends will gather to have dinner & a bawl of a time. The highlights of these nights are usually the weird things adults say when they've had a little more than too much to drink :p They get us laughing for hours!
I love my family and would never trade them for anything, even if it was for all the gold in the world. But would give up a lot to have my late grandma here with us. I miss her terribly. She's an amazing woman, who gave more to others than took for herself. And today, looking back at old old pictures, we realized that I've got most of her features. That means a lot to carry a little bit of her with me wherever I go, and that she will always never be forgotten :')
/ / Happy New Year, Loveleys!
Be blessed x
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