Posted in Family @ Home on Sep 27th, 2008 No Comments »
From a young age, I was already “fashion-conscious”. Pretty dress? Check. Umbrella for protection from the weather? Check. Pink shoes for a lady? Check. Beautiful pose? Check. My grandfather smiling in the background? Check. That’s why I’m telling you all, I’m a trend-setter from young. This is honed through dressing up prettily and seeing my [...]
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Posted in Family @ Home on Sep 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Nuff said. Regular readers should know them by the 7th post of Memories of my Grandfather. My grandfather is on the left and my mother is standing on the right. I believe this isn’t a posed photo as it doesn’t give me that kind of feeling. But somehow, I find this photo very good, almost [...]
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Posted in Family Outing on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
A quick intro to who’s who (the important ones) in the photo. On the front row (of squatting kids), I’m on the extreme left, the small little girl and on the other side, the extreme right is my eldest cousin. And at the back row (of standing adults), on the extreme left is my father, [...]
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Yes, we were being cajoled into singing a birthday song. And no, I was only clapping along to the birthday song sang by my uncle (grandfather’s eldest son who is seen clapping his hands here). He was like, “Sing Happy Birthdy”, and I started to clap along. And as he carried on singing, the three [...]
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This picture was taken just before we cut the birthday cake. The baby that my grandfather was holding? That’s my younger brother and apparently, it looked like he was more amused by my cousin instead of the camera. This was quite a difficult shot as my brother kept fidgeting and making so much noise and [...]
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Here, you can see my grandfather giving out red packets (ang pow) on his birthday. And he’s giving one to his eldest son and creepily enough, I always seemed to be included in every shot too! The lady which my grandfather had just passed is my uncle’s (grandfather’s eldest son) daughter. Really ungrateful mother and [...]
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While my grandfather was cutting his cake, a lot of thoughts and emotions went through my head. One moment I was thinking if I would be able to celebrate my grandfather’s birthdays forever, the next moment I was thinking will this happiness end one day unexpectedly? To be brutally honest, I almost felt like crying [...]
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