PEOPLE, IT IS 9 MORE DAYS TO MY FREAKING BIRTHDAY!! WHAT PRESENT WILL THERE BE FOR ME?!!!

I freaked myself out just now when i was applying moisturizer to my face after washing my face - without glasses, of course. And i look exactly like my dad. It freaks me out.

Anyway, it's less than 10 days to my birthday and i didn't even realised until my brother told me. So they are planning a buffet lunch for me. I'm most contented this year despite so many things has happened this year. But hey, i've gotten my best love from my family, and the most beautiful sounding cello and my so-dreamed piano, yamaha with excellent touch, no less.

2011 has indeed been an eventful year for all of us. Let's just hope 2012 will be a better year for everyone! Especially it is the year of dragon! Which is the year i was born in! *dragon roaring in the background*

Pictures! As usual! They are seriously overdue and i have yet so many photos in my camera that i have not transferred into my camera!

Me, xiao-gu, meimei, korkor, and nonni, when we roam the Taipei streets after a crying afternoon. Meimei looked so fragile it pains me. It was in April to settle daddy's funeral.

Me and Lalano, my cello teacher. She's just like a grandmother to me (also fulfills my grandmother's love since i hardly have any contact with either grandmother). She's been so concerned since my dad passed away.


We brought meimei out to the Tortoise and Turtle Museum in Chinese Garden in early June and it was plain fun, apart from the part about feeding the mossies.










Mummy still has heavy eye-bags from all the crying. And that was June, nearly 2 months from his demise.

That's me feeding those babies.







Take note of the bird on the top right-hand corner. HAHA.

Family portrait in the king-kong-kiang China style, in the Chinese Garden, doubtlessly! HAHA.

The next 3 photos were taken in early Feb (i think so) with Jia-Sen at IKEA! I look so horrible. Gracious me. *palm forehead* Note to self: Stupid Jia-Sen, you have beautiful double eyelid. GIVE ME SOME! DAMN IT!







Finally got my lazy bone to move and went jogging. I always get inspired to do things and give up halfway. Note to self: kick off that bad habit. And anyway, so we got ourselves jogging shoes at good reasonable prices from World of Sports because there was a discount going on. I'm on jogging spirit, but perhaps, much less - Probably once or twice every month!









This was taken in late June, when mummy and i went for lunch at Deport area. I can't remember the rest. Mummy has so much sadness in her eyes. *Sigh*



This was in late June. Our lunch at ThaiExpress besides Esplanade, overseeing the waterfront and the Merlion! What a lovely time.

More random photos.







We went to West Coast park in early July. Got ourselves McDonalds as early dinner and wolfed it all down while basking in the evening glow, with pampered kids running around with mini kites and teens clowning around. The sea breeze made us sticky-skinned but we were contented.























By the end of July, while clearing those stuffs in my storeroom, there, sitting in the corner was my old LEGO set. 2 boxes full of them. Dug them out and made something out of it!





And got myself a super colourful bedspread!

I guess that's it for now. Guys, I will end this post with a photo of my favourite toy (in the past, at least).



Take care and yes, in case i forget about my birthday post, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME IN ADVANCE! and, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL THE DECEMBER BABIES. Make more love and make this world a better place. =D

Cheers,
Hughes

Labels: Chinese Garden, Jogging, Lego, My Birthday, Tortoise Museum, West Coast Park

北北，你最近好吗？吃得好睡的好吗？还习惯你的新生活吗？天气开始热起来了，你要记得多喝水。几天前的我还生病了呢。你要照顾好你自己。。。我。。。。真的好想好想念你。对你的牵挂我还是放不下。你有没有时不时的想起我们？答应我，你不能把我们忘了。我还是很爱你。

It's been 2 months, since you left us. Your face, your voice, your smile and your scent is fading away in my mind slowly. And i am fighting against it. It's not easy, trust me, daddy, but i will try my best. I still remember the last night before you flew to Taiwan, you were holding to my hand, asking me i have enough money for myself. I dismissed you saying that i am fine but you ought to sleep because you have got an early flight. You grab on to my hand and ask me to take care. Did you alreay plan your death? Did you already know everything? I want to know. I need to know.

You know. I almost fainted again today. While jogging at the stadium. It was horrible. I've vomitted too. When will my physical torment ends? Will i follow your footstep and die in a ward one day? I fear. I really fear. I've been into hospital so many times i fear i will go to sleep and just wake up being in a ward in those blue gown with needles and tubes on me again. I'm afraid i might just break down one day.

In the meanwhile, please take care of yourself, beibei.



..... i love this photo. The last photo of us, all together. Remember i drove us to Changi Beach and we had great fun there. There were the huge hermit crabs, the little fishes, the worms and kids and waves.... and us, a complete family.

RIP. Rest, peacefully.

Labels: Daddy

The picturesque autumn makes the most beautiful postcards on the bookstores. Every single individual leaves make a difference to the overall. It's extention of it's beauty to shades of red, gold, orange, pink, yellow embellish everything. But eveything has a time to come and time to go. A time for fallen leaves. A time for flowers to lose its petals. A time to bloom and a time to brown. When autumn has to bid good-bye, when the next season in queue is frowning and waiting inpatiently, autumn will rob itself of all the red gold orange pink and yellow, and creep away silently, unnoticably. Some might weep, some might cheer, some might talk about it, but most people won't notice. The minute hand of the clock ticks on. The earth never stopped spinning and.... life goes on. Farewell, autumn.

Farewell, my dear father. Farewell, the man who brought me cellos and gave me support through my music career. Farewell, the warrior who fought for my welfare and well-being all these while. Winter has come, you have gone, but it will be a wonderful sunny spring after the bumpy ride through winter. It will be good. It promised to be. I'm sure.

My father died in the late afternoon of the 20th April in the Taipei Mackey Memorial Hospital. Age 54. It was a natural death due to illness. He left peacefully - shutted eyes and tight lips. When they rested him into the casket, he looked like he was just taking a nap. A peaceful nap. But he's gone. It's an empty shell.

It was my first time flying to Taiwan. The weather was unhelpfully cold but the people were warm-hearted. The funeral parlour people helped us through generously and even arranged and paid for our transport back to the Airport on our departure day. Through the busy schedule we had there, we found time to walk through the busy Shih-Ling market, roam through Taipei streets and tasted a wee bit of their food. It was a good experience nonetheless.

Enough said. Pictures! Very few photos were taken because we were really busy and totally out of the usual self to be in the right mind to take photos. Nevertheless, some surviving photos captured managed to make their way here, into this entry.





































Now, daddy, you can look we are alright. We are strong. And we can support ourselves. Rest peacefully and don't worry about us. We will be fine. There's always winter, but there's always spring remember?

Farewell, autumn. Beautiful leaves of red, gold, orange, pink and yellow, squrriels and beautiful postcards on the bookstore.




On a happier note, I've just gotten myself a new bed, made completed with a new set of bedsheet. It's ultra cheery and i love it so much. Of course, i still love my colour flurry blanket more.





I-sometimes-wished-things-could-have-been-different-but-it's-not-point-thinking-we-just-have-to-move-on-with-life-ly yours,
Hughes

Labels: Taiwan. Daddy