"Heart-warming rains"

1st time ever for the past 30 years plus, i'm celebrating Chinese New Years in such a bad weather. It literally rained every single day. Most of the Sibu town area were flooded during the CNY 2009.

Complaints can be heard easily everywhere. What else but praising "the most efficient hard working government in the whole wide world"?

The rain & the flood certainly have stopped many of us from visiting friends & relatives during the festival. From the tone of my writing, you might suggest that what a boring Chinese New Year it was, isn't it?

Nevertheless, I personally felt that it was a very warm Chinese New Year. Those may have prevented us from going out to visit. On the other hand, it gave us ample of time for those living under the same roof "revisit" among each other. Getting to know each other better. Share more, listen more, care more & love more...... They are the closet people to me in this world. Wife, mom, brothers & sisters in law, & of course not forgetting my favorite playmates-my nieces.

There are a lot of heart warming moments to share. This time around i share with you a video clip that was recorded by my 3rd elder brother during the Sarawak Clan Sii annual dinner held in Sibu on the Jan 31st 2009. It was a performance by my only younger brother-Ah Yew. This take was actually a 3rd or 4th take. Forgot the lyrics. NG too many times so he requested to "take a bow" & leave the stage temporally. Wrote down the lyrics & practiced few more times before taking on a 2nd chance.

My eldest niece carrying the lyrics for him, 3rd elder brother doing video recording for him & i taking pictures for him. Others, they played an equally important role-spectators. NG, never mind. We gave him support. We cheered him up. Given a 2nd chance, we believed he can do it. That's what family for, isn't it?

There's another surprise there in the clip. Watch it yourselves. If you wonder, that's my 4th elder brother's daughter. Enjoy the clip. Happy Chinese New Year!





Good job, brother.

I truly enjoyed my Chinese New Year break this year. It was a heart warming festival. Even though it rained & rained & kept on raining......