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Monday, 17 November 2008
The F word.






I had the most memorable time with my grandparents and cousin, T. It's hard to explain it, before she came over I was all nervous wondering how it was going to go. We were close as kids but growing up we broke off all contact.

Well, it was really good. Conversation was easy and silences were not awkward. Maybe it's simply because we are family. I just felt this wave of emotion sweep over me when T picked up her phone while we were at the zoo and said "hey yeah, I'm with my family right now".

Maybe it's just me, but I never really refered to anyone as family apart from my immediate one. Later over dinner T was talking about my bro should call Y up for coffee when he's over at KL. I just said, wow that'll be so weird they haven't spoken since forever. T just said again, "It'll be alright, we're all family".

To be honest, I've never really considered Y as family, somehow. I know we are related by blood by I never refered to it as family, it was just cousin.

It's funny how just not too long ago, I wrote an essay about how "moving away from familiar landscapes often bring about a sense of loss", and I wrote about my cousin T and her sisters! Today we also talked about our snail hobby, oh well, those were good times.

In other words, I feel happy-ish today, and hopefully we'll meet up for coffee and to catch up semi-regularly next year :)

love, 21:47
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