Weekend homecoming

We went home for the weekend to meet up with my elder brother and his family. A nonstop chattering dinner with some relatives, an afternoon at the Camerons and another round of yumcha with the same group of relatives again summed up those few days.

But the smiles on both my parents', there were no words for it. Can see how so very happy they were. Though the days were hot and wet, it didn't dampen our moods, as we braved the wind and rain to overcome the winding and narrow road to the tea plantation, pick fat juicy strawberries to the children's delight, ate Tuck Kee fried noodles even though it was pouring. I enjoyed myself very much.

On the Monday early morning, 6am to be precise, I was awakened by dad's morning fix, and went along with him to walk up the pathroad on Kledang Hill. When we arrived, ours was only the 3rd car, quite a contrast to my expectation where I remembered last time we can't even find a good parking spot near the foothill. It was so dark and silent, it was freaking the hell out of me. But it would disappoint my dad too much to request him to turn back, so I had to keep telling myself 'ding tit lei, ding tit lei..."

My dad kept talking to me while my mind kept imagining gory situations. I kept flashing the torchlight around, and behind and hoping the sun would come up soon soon soon.. my! that was not what I expected to be. Because ah.. last last time, it is like a partay up at Kledang Hill, many people hiked up and down at those hours one.

Fortunately, nothing of my wild imaginations took place, and we came back down happily. More people were seen when we were descending and I could breathe a little easier. I can see my dad was very happy to have my company though. That really made my day.

And I felt really mm-seh-tuck to leave that afternoon. We had such a great easy time together, I just wish we could have these kind of gatherings more often.