OLD BLOG: Family Bonding

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Happy 80th Birthday Grandma - We All Love You Alot (Actual Birthday : 17th June 2013)

Kaviel熊猫♥ 9:02 AM

Happy 80th Birthday MaMa!
Quek Kim Eng

Longevity Buns
Shaped Into Cute Rabbits

Cute Rabbit Longevity Buns
Aunty Bought Them From Takashimaya

A Drawing Done By A Professional Artist
Tiffany

My Cute & Loving Grandmother
She's Kind-Hearted & Super Cute

She is a wonderful lady whom always show great kindness to the people around her, she never fails to make sure that all of us around her gets the best out of everything that's out on the table before she gets her hands onto one of those amazing food cooked by my awesome maid, Min.

This will be the happy moments we spent together with her and it will never be the last as she will definitely live a long life as she will be blessed with good health and long life with the amazing spread of longevity buns.

She's someone special to us and we'll always spent time with her especially when she stays with me under the same roof.

I hope she like the drawing I requested Tiffany to draw as to me she's one of the greatest artist I've seen that could draw such a beautiful drawing that totally looks exactly like my grandmother.

Happy Moments we share together as a family will never end here as we have many years to come to share this wonderful warmth among our family members.

Two Slices Of Cake
From Two Different Cakes

Awesome Chocolaty Cake as well as a mild cream cake that is fluffy and delicious topped with berries that gives it an overall mixture of sweet and sour taste. Such a wonderful birthday cake for a wonderful event.

This will be the start of more birthdays to come!
Happy Birthday Grandma!

Monday, June 10, 2013

Singapore

翁 & Extended Family Gathering 2013 - 2nd Annual Inter-Family Bowling Competition at NSRCC (7th June 2013 to 10th June 2013)

Kaviel熊猫♥ 1:19 AM

Family Gathering 2013

2nd Annual Inter-Family Bowling Competition

Aunty Choo & Aunty Hua

Making Otah Together
From Left, Grandmother, Aunty Min, Me, Uncle Wong, Aunty Peng, Aunty Keow, Grace, Aunty Hua, Aunty Choo & My Mom

Grace, My Mom & Aunty Choo

My Mom & Aunty Choo

Candid Shot with My Cousins
Glendon, Me, Desmond & Grace

Candid Shot with My Cousins
Desmond, Me, Glendon & Grace

My 4th Uncle & My Grandmother
My Grandmother
(5th Uncle's Wife)

Took A Photo Before We Start The Competition

Aunty Hua Announcing the Teams
Standing Beside Her is Sherlynn
Desmond Who Happens to Pass by on the left

Bowling Competition Commences
Aim, Shoot & Throw

Awards Ceromony

Eight Uncle Giving Out The Prizes

Sherlynn Won Herself
2nd Place for the Girls Category

Aunty Jasmine Won Herself
1st Place for the Girls Category
Also 1st Place for the Team Category

The Boy Who Worked Real Hard Training For This Bowling Competition
Shaun Kam
Won 3rd Place for the Males Category

1st Annual Inter-Family Bowling
Competition

Our Big Family
Includes My Grandmother's 4 Daughters & 1 Son

My Bowling Team
Didn't Win Anything but was Fun Indeed
From Left, Me, Aunty Choo & Glendon

My Lovely Cousins
Took a Photo after the Awesome Bowling Games

Celebrated My Grandmother's Eightieth Birthday in Year 2012
(According to the Chinese Calendar)
八十大寿

Amazing Big “寿” Cake
八十大寿's Cake

We Also Celebrated The Birthdays
For the People Born In June

June Babies
Everyone waiting to sing the Birthday Song Together

Family Bonding

What I Personally Feel About Bonding?

Now a these days, it is very difficult to maintain the bonds that we have over the years especially when you have a large group of family members which consist of different relatives and cousins that are from different generations.

The age gap makes a difference in gauging how well we communicate with the people around us. The wider the age gap it becomes harder for us to communicate especially if your parents are still stuck in the traditional way of thinking which is not wrong at all but makes it more hard for them to understand the ever-changing society in the current era.

We are all growing and changing differently with different prospects of life and different way of thinking. We express ourselves in a whole new level which is what makes us special for who we are as compared to the olden days whereby it is harder for us to socialize but the integration of the society as a Racial Harmony Society has make it easier for us to communicate easier which enables us to learn different races' culture and traditions to avoid any misunderstandings and quarrels.

We are all different but sometimes it's hard to explain and communicate with your family members unless their age gaps are not too far apart from us.

Bonding due to the different commitments and stressful life-style of having to work day in and out just to earn enough to support the family has make it difficult for it to take place to ensure that we are in touch in the close ones that we cherish.

Thus, It's going to be hard to hope that such gatherings would continue running but I would definitely be more than glad in assisting the organizers within my family to organize such a fun-filled event that involves almost all my family members to catch up with each other on the missing hours that we have yet to share with each other about.

It will Soon Be Our Turn

To Maintain The Bonds of our Family Members

Since The Trophy is Re-Used Every Year

I Hope The Trophy can Be Passed Down To The Future Generations to Fight For The 1st Place