Family

Ever wondered how much you'd miss your family if you didn't have them around you?

I think too many of us tend to take the constant nagging, the incessant bickering and the never ending worrying for granted... =) You most probably think the topic's cliche, its old news, but just sit still and think back to all the times your family has been there for you, and in spite of all your differences, your siblings are people you'd bet your life on for all their faults...

I've always loved my two brothers and my parents growing up all these years, and I can't help but feel just maybe this time round visiting them in Perth, where the whole family was together in one place for a long time that I'm coming back to them after a long hiatus...

I actually like eating (ok, maybe not LIKE per se, rather not mind it) BROWN RICE now, which is a staple the rest of my family has been partaking of for the past 7 years??!! And i've only just come to taste! ha, I do almost feel like a long lost relative at times... My two brothers are so grown up now, one's 20, 2nd year uni student, the youngest is 18, coming of age, just finished with BMT. Both are going thru their rough and tumbles with girlfriends, meetings, friends, etc. And I just think i'd have loved to have been a bigger part of all that growing up that they've done so far. I listen to their tales of going to prom, asking girls out, their first parties, drinking, clubbing, dates, fighting for possession of the car, I can't help but feel I've never had to share too much of my own experiences with the two of them!

My fondest memory of my two lil bros are rainy days at our house in the East Coast, sitting on the side patio inches from the garden grass and watching the ground start to get water-logged. We'd just sit there, the three of us, 10, 6,4 and eat cookies which I rationed out to each and every one. SOMEBODY had to be the boss! =)

I hope we'll grow old close, and I hope we'll never fight the way some families do and not talk to the other for years on end. I do hope our kids will grow up together, and I do hope we'll always be able to lean on each other for the years to come.

They won't be reading this, but this is a reminder to myself to not forget them again...