mobile feasting

the annual chinese new year visiting brings about what i would like to call mobile feasting. basically, we are feasting wherever we go. probably like a swarm of locuts, eating wherever we land. the only difference would be that the owners were more than happy to let us finish up whatever that was laid on the table.
needless to say, after 2 days of eating, my weight would have ballooned a little, but i don't see that stopping me.


last night, was a first. 4 families dine together, for no particular reason. everyone just happened to be at the same place at the same time and it was dinner time.
at our table, sat all the cousins. i looked around and i saw various people at various stages of their lives. 1 was in primary school, her sister in secondary school. still young by our standards, but i did remember the daunting times of pre-teens and the days of being a teenager.

then there was the cousin who is looking for love. younger than i am, and no doubt hoping for that 1 day, she will find a man who will sweep her off her feet and carry her off into the sunset and they lived happily ever after.
her brother just came out of a divorce last year. he really really looked happier now. i think things are going well for him. he is truely enjoying himself, as a person.

another cousin has probably all but given up on love. she is in her mid 30s and she is an independent woman. i believe she had her share of relationships but they did not work out, for whatever reasons. anyway, she had gone and bought a new condo because she is able to afford it and also able to sustain it, due to non-committments. sometimes, if we look at the flip side of life, things might not be that bad at all.

me? i'm looking to embark on a new adventure. what that adventure is, well, i have yet to really find out, but i don't think that it is very far away, from happening.
sometimes, we cannot just sit and wait for life to happen. we have to go out there and look for life.
something like nasa, who instead of just wondering whether there is life on mars, they sent a probe all the way out there to search for life. whether you find any life though, is another matter all together, but at least you tried.