Valentine's Eve

This fruit cake was so delicious, fresh, and healthy.

Slices of canned and fresh fruits were used; pineapple, rambutan, grape,kiwi, peach and cherry.

Love at first bite, so appropriate for a Valentine's Eve.

Love will find its way home

A handsome well built Keanu Reeves lookalike man in his 30's , on his trembling knees, begging a widow(with a daughter from her previous marriage)for her hand. His wife died a year ago, left him with four wailing kids ranging from two to six years old.

She was not surprised with the proposal, having helped him taking care of his kids for a year, she was already a necessity to the family.

For her, helping out was an insignificant generous charitable act, but marriage was a huge decision.

She could walk away or accept the challenge, she looked into the man's pleading eyes, tears were holding backed by him in a macho manner, she understood well tears were unspoken words from the heart.

She gently reached out to him, holding his hands and accepted the marriage proposal.

Together they had a rebellious daughter and an obedient son. That made it to four daughters and three sons.

I am the once rebellious daughter. This is the story of my parents.

It is an indeed a normal love tale without plots and excitements. The hidden secret is they were separated by parental disapproval(same surname)in their teenage years.

Love seemed to have found its way home and brought them back together.

I am a rather rational type, I view it as "Love had paid its dues eventually".

A Great Smile

The first line I got from an old classmate in an email was " I still clearly remember your smile and the way you sprinted on the field after decades."

I must have left that cheerful personalities and a great smile imprinted in her mind after all these years.

It brought me to a smile I profoundly recall, my mother's.

She used to have a set of sparkling teeth showing off when she smiled, so infectious that it would brighten anyone's day.

The charming gorgeous smile however, was replaced with melancholy and gloomy look the day my father passed away.

It took her years again to be able to smile the way she used to be, but then some of the teeth were not there anymore.