Grandparents

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I started off this post with the intention to talk about my HK trip, but got carried away on the grandparents topic and decided to remane the post to "grandparents"

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After our wedding we flew HK for a short trip and most importantly to visit grandparents-in-law who couldnt travel to attend our wedding.

Mentioning about Grandparents, with exception for my grandmother ( Mother's mom) who passed away in ill health in 1993,  I have no memories of the rest of  them, not even a photo. My father parents lost to tuberculosis before he was married and mom's father went back to China during WWII and no one ever heard of him since. Guess times was really really hard then...

Sadly, for the only grandmother I had, I was never close to her, and I don't know why.  Probably because of  language barrier at that time.  I remember once she was telling me about her story in WWII. It was a nice feeling even though I could hardly make out what was she saying. (Afterall, I sucked at my own dialect till today, and I can never teach me kids that. :( )

So the term 'grandparents' is something very distant to me all the while.  Till the day when I fetch Oink's grandparents from Changi Airport when they came over to Singapore to visit us the year before. I remembered blurting something like "Oh , so this is how a 90 year old granny and grandpa  is like ... " Just kinda found it amazing that I suddenly have grandparents-to-be (at that time)

Ok , back to visiting them, by the time we arrived at Grandparents house it was already almost 10 – 11pm .. Way past their sleeping time, but they still prepared food for us nevertheless.. It just so hard-warming.

Photo with grandparents the next morning after tea-ceremony