White sight

“She probably just wants to steal my mooncake! >:(“

…I swear I love this person so..soo much.

Hm. Ok. Happy Mid-Autumn’s to everyone. I managed to hit 77 today (cold weather flying ftw at last!), and had a wonderful dinner with my maternal relatives.

Unfortunately, not all could make it.. like how ray was stuck at wherever and my cousin had exams tmr and her mom was helping to take care of some tea shop. But regardless!.. I had fun.

After a delicious dinner by my “super-yi ma”, me, matthew (youngest boy in sg) and lydia (eldest of us all) dragged our sorry selves to the playground to play with the fireworks. Combined, our ages totalled close to 60, and the three of us were busy looking for a secluded spot to not-embarrass ourselves so much. Needless to say, we couldn’t find any such spot and decided to just burn all of the fireworks in the middle of the playground XD.

It went surprisingly fast. There’s quite a difference between our rapid going through of the fireworks, and the way we were back then when we were younger. I remember spending mid-autumn playing with lanterns and playing ‘catching’. The playground looked so much bigger then, and running around was a real adventure.

The three of us had a better kick out of chasing a fire truck and wondering who made the epic fail mistake of starting a fire accident, or whether someone was about to commit suicide etc. We really did run after the fire truck and stared as firemen got off and rushed past us. I really appreciated my cousins saying…”oi oi. raymond leh?”… as if to say that my dear brother’s existence does matter and he is missed in all his civil defence-ness glory. *shrug* Oooh. And we found a used paper lantern and threw it into a drain and watched it burn. :D (this was while the firemen were walking about haha)

As usual, my aunt knows how to get the most awesome bird nest snowskin mooncakes (my favourites), and there were plenty to choose from. My second aunt made some (so i tried half a green tea cake), and there were cakes from pretty famous hong kong companies like wing wah etc. My super-uncle got them from his work in hong kong, so…it’s awesome. Quality stuff. I tried a bit of durian mooncake too and as with all things durian…. *gags*.

I had tea, great food, lovely company. Grandma was there and I spent the better half before my parents arrived listening to her talking about my cousin agnes and her woes with schooling. I thought it was kinda funny like how grandma seemed like she was trying to convince me to convince my cousin to go to the poly route, but anyway.. it doesn’t matter. It made me a lil proud to have been the one being attentive. I like seeing grandma being spirited after all.

Matthew seems to be doing ok. At least the fella was supportive of family events to come. Oh. And he’s sporting a new tongue ring too. (wtfish dood lol). Lydia’s hair is really long and rather prettily permed and dyed. She has this year to pass some modules so that she can finally secure a job offer. Too bad she had to turn down one from dbs earlier.. ): But yeah. Wish her luck.

All in all.. I always look forward to this day, also cus of mooncakes.. although in recent years, I really haven’t been eating a lot of them as compared to.. perhaps.. when I was younger? … The world seems smaller now (i think even the mooncakes shrunk)…but yeah. ..

It’s not like it has to be an explosive feeling. All it needs is to be that comfortable and familiar warmth… and I truly believe this is something only the presence of family can provide. I love seeing my parents being at ease and interacting with people outside ourselves.. and I also love finding out how I am like with other family members…

So yeah.. All in all… family’s important. I recently asked my parents on what kind of person they think I will marry one day. Dad refused to comment on anything past “It’s your choice.”, and I suspect he’s being mindful of how what he says may influence my choice of partner (meh). Mom however, had plenty of opinions (haha). Something interesting though.. She is of the opinion that I can fit many different kinds of persons, because according to her, I’m the kind of “sui bian” person who can tolerate a lot of things. She also mentioned that most likely, my future partner would be a gentleman, who is mature enough to er… “appreciate” me beyond apparent superficialities. >.> …Most of all.. future partner would be a “reasonable” person. Aha. I don’t know how much of it is what she hopes for, and how much is her guesswork on what kind of person I’ll end up with… but you know…Despite whatever anyone says….

Imho, one criterion must be fulfilled no matter what… Whichever the unfortunate soul who intends to do something stupid and ask to spend time with me…this same soul must be able to get along with my family. I fully expect to spend many weekend dinners together, and also drag this masochistic person off to meet my paternal relatives regularly. I guess it doesn’t matter if this person isn’t liked by all relatives, but at the very least, said masochist must be able to recognise just how important family is to me and at least come to respect that fact.

*breathes*

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Ok. Getting sleepy. I’d best deal with more WoW after a nap. Still hoping to reach 80 by Friday omfg wot.

We’ll see. …

Happy Mid-Autumn’s everyone~