September 02, 2007

~ Randomly...

Went to a chalet-cum-BBQ organised by one of my aunts. It's an annual event, either in September or in December school holiday. My aunt's a teacher-quite-desperately-wanting-to-retire.

Played 'Twister' with my cousins. Which is the reason why my arms are darn tired now. That game is really trying, with the gamers posed in all kinds of acrobatic positions as the game-master shouts out 'right hand on red', 'left foot on blue', and whatnot. Luckily, my limbs are comparatively long since I'm taller than most of my cousins. But, I still found myself in awkward positions many times, trying to support myself on crossed arms stretched to the max. But, fun nevertheless.

It was when I came home that I realised it's been, truthfully, a better Saturday than I had expected. Usually, family gatherings are not most people's idea of something fun to do on a weekend, right?

The last time I actually played with my cousins must be when we were all still in our early teens. For all I can remember, the 'game' was to compete to see who could pile up the highest tower using majong tiles (yes, when our parents took a recess in their real majong game).

More than 10 years must have passed since then. We grew up and grew apart. Aside from the annual huge family picnic at Choa Chu Kang Chinese cemetery, we hardly meet. Or contacted one another.

Even so, when we had our arms crossing each other's arms and hands beneath each other's bums on the Twister mat just now, it really felt like family. Jeez, mushy.

Even though we have headed in different directions in life, carving out different career paths (and honestly, sometimes, I don't even remember where my younger cousins are studying or know where another cousin is working), it's good to know there is this group of people I'm related to and on occasions like today, we can laugh out loud at each other on the Twister mat and not feel like the years have passed since the majong tower competition.

Quite nice way to spend a Saturday evening, actually. Quite nice.

Posted by 杏 cy （Jancy） at 00:40