Ever sat with a bunch of strangers in their sixties knowing that they are related to you? Well thats what happened to me when my Grandma brought me to her elder brother's son's wedding whom i've never seen in my life time.

Being the eldest and first born Sng, I've been heavily 'utilized' by my grand ma when it comes to functions like these coz most of my aunts and uncles won't want to go and either my dad or i have to represent the family..My Grand ma has 10 siblings and imagine if each bore on average 8 in the family and after that bore on average 2-3!! Plug us out and place us in an island and we could create Sngapore!!

but anyway, i really had fun there!! the minute i went to the restaurant, all the seniors would mold my face and keep chanting" WHOA Le Si Ah Tao(my dad's nick name) eh Kia ah!!whoa Jing Nhia leh..."
The last time they saw me was when i was speaking in tongues and running naked around the house not knowing what the world was...

They have thought me so many things and gave me a HISTORY lesson of my family=) The atmosphere of awkwardness slowly moved to an atmosphere of knowing more about our lost ones...they gave me a GEOGRAPHY practical of where they used to live and what that place has become now...Soon, they moved on to HOME ECONS on the different ways of cooking fish as they used to be fisherman. Finally before the wedding dinner was over, they sum up 50 years of experience into a half an hour PHILOSOPHY lesson.

Well, picking up a conversation with a senior is certainly a skill and requires a lot of patience..But overall, these bunch of strangers whom i used to call them, are now my grand uncles.

IN CHEMISTRY, HE TURNED WATER TO WINE.
IN BIOLOGY, HE WAS BORN WITHOUT THE NORMAL CONCEPTION,
IN PHYSICS, HE DISPROVED THE LAW OF GRAVITY WHEN HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN
IN ECONOMICS, HE DISPROVED THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURN BY FEEDING 5000 MEN WITH TWO FISHES & 5 LOAVES OF BREAD
IN MEDICINE, HE CURED THE SICK AND THE BLIND WITHOUT ADMINISTERING A SINGLE DOSE OF DRUGS
IN HISTORY, HE IS THE BEGINNING AND THE END
IN GOVERNMENT, HE SAID THAT HE SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, PRINCE OF PEACE
IN RELIGION, HE SAID NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH HIM

He won no military battles, yet He conquered the world. He committed no crime, yet they crucified Him. He was buried in a tomb, yet He lives TODAY!!

Who is this person?
he is my father, he is my friend, he is my teacher, he is my advisor, he is my refuge, he is my King, he is Jesus.

Can you imagine what it is like to cross the vast ocean? For weeks you see nothing but the horizon, perfect and empty. You live in the grip of fear; fear of storms, fear of sickness on board, fear of the immensity.

So u drive that fear down deep into your belly, Study your charts, watch your compass and pray for a calm fair wind, and HOPE, that pure, naked and fragile HOPE.

At first it’s no more than a haze on the horizon, So you watch...Then it’s a smudge, a shadow on the far water, for a day, for another day. The stain slowly spreads along the horizon taking form until the third day, you let yourself believe. You dare to whisper the word- LAND, life! Resurrection, the true adventure coming out of the vast unknown, out of the immensity, into new life, into the new World.

Hope...Hope..