This is our "yee sang" session.
Yours Sincerely ( Y S ) and his family made the annual pilgrimage back to Kelantan again without fail every lunar new year for the past 30 plus years. Ever since he was posted to Alor Setar, Kedah, he only missed two trips. One was when the elder daughter was down with chicken pox and another was when Y S' younger brother and family celebrated the 2007 Mouse Lunar year in K Lumpur. Y S has his younger brother and wife to thank for ever willing to open their home for them. When the parents have passed over, many a family is disintegrated. Each cares for itself. It takes a good, responsible and loving sibling to hold the family members together.
God knows, how Y S missed his mum. For when she was alive, she tried very hard to make us and the grandchildren very happy every lunar new year. She went out of her way to prepare our favourite food and stock up chewiest tit-bits. Strangely Y S did not miss all these goodies because mum's legacy lives in Y S' younger brother's wife. She stocked up the freshest sea food, cooked Y S' favourite food, and sourced out the tastiest tit-bits for us to enjoy. Not many would walk that extra mile. She is a rare gem. She is one in a million.
So, the lunar new year of the Tiger was ushered in peacefully with lots of food and more food on the first, second and third day. Not to mention the crunchy tit-bits.
Y S was bonded, felt connected and ready to face the challenges of the lunar new year.
If you take the bull year by the horns, you have to ride the tiger in the Tiger Year !!!
4 comments:
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Takes effort to get together... you're blessed to have a sister willing to do the hosting.
She is a great blessing. ( I c u get your life back again after the demise of your Ahma.)
Life goes on and continues to move... anyway, if you had known her, she would not have wanted any fuss. And she lived her life to the fullest too... 8)
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