Reunion Dinner

it is cool to see all the folks back again.

went to my paternal grandparents' house to eat reunion dinner. as usual, every year, a steamboat with all sorts of raw food presents itself. met the regulars: 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th uncle. surprised to hear that my cousin has earned himself enough years to serve the nation! yep he's 18 this year and in jc2. and his sister is already in sec4!! amazing.

well i never interacted with them much, even as we are supposed to meet every sunday for food at grandparents' house (yes i didn't go), since perhaps my jc years. hence it comes as a rude shock that all my cousins have blossomed and matured into adolescence. It is hard to imagine them once as the kids who were great fans of central's kiddie programs... from their throats come a deep, hollowed voice that i cannot recognise not link it to them.

i have aged - they have grown up.

being 22... soon i will be raising a family of my own. the cycle repeats itself.

my sixth uncle's two children - one a toddler of 2-3 years old (?), one a infant of 2-3 months old - still lay innocently in their parent's arms. it is hard to disregard the fact that my sixth uncle was my best playmate, when i was small and the rest of the children had too large an age gap to fill. he was in university, and i was in primary school.

now, it seems like his children (whom, interestingly, i still call cousins) would most likely be the companions of the next generation.

i still remember the time when i was seven years old. and now i am twenty-two.

time flies.