it has been monkey donkey turkey years since i last clear my yahoo mail. mainly coz the mail has been infested with many junk and irritating and yucky chain mails. but aniway, what i want to say is i received a pleasant surprise. i saw the rom photos of my cousin, those above.

ya why werent i told of earlier? that's becoz, accr to her, its a rather private and small rom affair, where only their direct family were there. and so i checked with my mom, who said that its just a rom and they dint go thru the chinese traditional wedding so no need for all the relatives to be present. but in any the case, their wedding will be officially held in mar next yr.

looking at the rom photos and the chain of emails exchanged between all the cousins (all of us were in the email loop), i suddenly miss them. haha. guess many of you know that this big family of mine use to meet very often, either for our ancestors death anniversary, mooncake festival, dumpling festival and the many other chinese-related festivals. my young days were filled with such close-knit family gatherings, but now ever since i started working, or rather, ever since i past 20 yrs old, i feel that i have lesser of such gatherings. no, dun get it wrong, my uncles and aunts will still have the meet-ups but the cousins who turned up grow fewer and fewer. by the time i passed 20 yrs, most of my cousins are already in their mid-20s, so everyone is already leading their independent life (working = independent) and busy with their other committment.

just one month back, one of my cousins who is now stationed in england working for some big shot private investment bank came back singapore to represent his co for some big shot (again) meeting. although i had nothing on that day, i did not turn up for a very mini gathering. and becoz of that, my dad kinda reprimanded me. at that pt in time, i felt that i rather stay home and rest (its a sunday night i think) and watch my tvb shows. partly also coz i felt that most of my cousins also wun turn up so ya...you know....

now, i regretted. haha. esp so after reading the chain of emails. realie kinda miss them. i think the last time i saw all my cousins (not one less) was cny 07. on and off, i will still see them, but not the full strength. actually, we have so much to say to each other, to update each other, but someone has to take the lead too? my cousins and i wun arrange to meet outside home events, perhaps coz we used to have like at least 10 of such home events a yr when we were young, so when we grew up, we subconciously feel that we will see one another often, so no need to arrnage to meet outside home events. but i have heard of frens who will meet their cousins for meals, shopping, movie etc. surprisingly, im envy of them, though i used to see them often enough too.

a lil bit of gan chu. i hope i will see more of them in the near future. =)


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a lil on my upcoming trip of my life (exaggerating! will leave that trip for honeymoon more likely, haha). my ma told me that my bro alr booked the alcatraz island tour for USD40 each. god! fyi, this alcatraz island is very famous in San Francisco, it is a former federal prison on a island. but the thing is we dun intend to tour ON the island. what i found out was a better deal, a tour on the cruise to see the island from the sea while the cruise also brings you to view other islands + another attraction for USD 50. and thats not all. my bro booked another expensive tour! a USD30 for a yatch sail in San Francisco. Thats close to USD 100 (/pax) liao, which is almost S150. sobs. my hard-earned money. hello bro, i dun earn big bucks k. This trip is going to suck me off dry dry le, so pls discuss with us before you book anything lar! *maddening*