Happy Birthdays

Today would have been Mum's birthday had she lived a little longer. I just looked up the appropriate diary entry for eleven years ago, the last time she well enough to visit us here. We threw a momentous birthday bash for her in the old Mansion. According to the entry the assembled cast featured: Karen, Mrs Goh & the children, Teck Siew, Gebian & Ocean, Rita & Tom, Mei & Boon, Kak Kiah & Abang Mat, Yati, Nahar & the children, Annie, A.K. & Li Ching and Rozita & the children. I also record how staggeringly hard Noi worked to put it all together.

Nice to think of her surrounded by all those friends and all those children. Nice to think of what gives life a meaning. Nice to think of all we have to be grateful for.