Grand Uncle

Micah and Max have a grand uncle who stays in Canada. This grand uncle just got married and came back here for tea ceremony in Taiping, Perak.

This grand uncle is my dad's cousin. He is the youngest of 7 brothers and sisters and he is the same age as Mike! His wife is Shirley and she is a nurse.

Our encounter was a sweet but short one:

Last night we were suppose to meet them for dinner at my mum's but they were down in Petaling Street, Chinatown, doing their touristy thing, and got caught in a bad jam. By the time they arrived it was 9.30pm and we had had dinner and also a fun time playing with candles and lanterns in Ah Ma's garden. We chatted for a while and then we left for home about 10.45pm while they went out for dinner/supper.

This morning they left for a 2 day holiday in Sinapore. From there they will head straight for Taiping and then to Penang and fly back to Canada from there.

This uncle of mine, Eng Wan, actually is more like a cousin to us since our childhood days. Whenever we went back to Taiping during the school holidays, he would join us in all our outing to the swimming pool, the waterfall, the lake gardens and our our gastronomical revelries. We played hop-scotch, board games, game-and-watch, tag and all sorts of pretend-play in his front yard and in our garden (he visited and stayed with us for 2 weeks once).

Micah of course entertained our guests with all his chatter. We gave the newly weds a gift, and another uncle, Eng Wan's second brother who brought him to my mum's place, teased Micah and asked him where is his gift. Micah's response was: You have to wait for your birthday, ok? Everyone laughed.


Even though the meeting was short, I am glad we did manage to see them. Secretly, we hope to make a trip to Calgary sometime in future.