Brothers getting together

It was prior to the period of Chinese New Year that my brother came to stay with me for about a month in Geliga Kemaman home. He had a project in Gebeng Kuantan area and decided to travel further north to stay in my house. It was a very rare occasion for us to stay together for such a period of time after we had got married, built our individual families, stayed at different cities, assigned to different job locations, our own destinations and timing just could not make such getting together possible if it is not for God's arrangment. All in all, it was a precious period after almost 35 years since the days we were both in secondary school staying with our parents. Our normal get-together time limits mainly to an annual affair when all our siblings go home during the Chinese New Year period.

 I had come home to Malaysia from overseas, the first time when I returned from Suzhou China in the year 1997, he had a serious case with the government and we and the other siblings were there together to face the problem. Thank God the issue was finally settled amicably!

This time around when I returned from Qingdao China about 8 months ago, it was a coincidence that because of his Oil and Gas nature of his job that he traveled to this part of the country for the work. We talked about the good old days and started to recall some names of old friends and also tasted some of the good food in Cukai. We went to Air Putih to look at the bridge built by my uncle and it was fun when we found time in life that we could get together in this manner.

I had written on how somebody we met for a brief moment in our life and then never have a chance to see them again. Thinking about this, even with our own brothers and sisters, we have the same problem to schedule ourselves to meet, it would be relatively more difficult to meet old friends or classmates if we do not make an effort to do so.

At this moment, I think of my son and daughter, this is the time they should enjoy the company and good time together while they are still staying under the same roof under the good care of my wife. The time will come when they eventually would have to go their separate ways once they start to work and have their own families. In my case, we have total of 6 siblings and we hardly have chance to really gather together because of our own individual commitment to our families, so just having 2 children would render the chance even rarer.

Life is so short, time is so good and while we can let us appreciate and enjoy the good time together!