scary scary...just came back from my grandpa's birthday party (mom's side)
so let's place the facts on the table

a) this is the bugger irresponsible grandpa who abandoned my grandma (ahmah) who was his 1st wife.



b) he took a 2nd and 3rd wife

c) I have never met him b4 till today. In fact today i only went because my mom "persuaded" me and i thought might as well meet up with my cousins and more cousins whom i was sure i had never met b4



So let's get to the main story shall we?


all my cousins (which i was familiar with) came, or most of them like 97% of them. So it was a pretty good meeting. My grandpa's house is huge! Ok actually it's my aunt's house but from what i heared he bought it or something for them. It has a swimming pool, it's a bungelow. hell..it even has a games room complete with a pool table and table tennis table. It's really a BIG BIG HOUSE!



ANyway my aunt uncle (from the 2nd wife i think) has 2 kids. One is this super super irritating inquisitive boy of 12yrs who will bombard u with questions non stop. and 1 is a shy 10 yrs girl. ANyway in the games room...there's a PS2, and a PS3! blooody helll.,,rich pple.



anyway my elder cousin gabriel (2nd branch aka from 2nd wife) decided to make a family tree. Only thing lacking is from our side since he alrdy did the 2nd and 3rd branch. anyway together claire andy gabriel and a newly know cousin called melissa (19yrs old), we found out all together there are a total of 38 cousins from the 1st - 3rd branch. (includes uncle richard's (1st born of the 1st branch!!) 2 kids from the 1st wife.



38 cousins!!! (includes me) that's like fucking huge!!!



i remember reading 1 article last time in ST abt a family of 100 which won some award or something. BLAH!!! only 100.... small fry lah! think abt 38 cousins alone only. If u count all the uncles and aunties? grandparents =2 or 4 if u includethe 2 other wives too. PLUS we have a total of 4 nephews and neices from 1st -3rd branch



so just the grandparents +cousins + nephews and neices = 46 alrdy leh
i'm sure aunties and uncles will make it more than 100 alrdy. ok maybe slightly less than 100.

and that's only my mom's side. If you count my dad's side....



Maybe shld call straits times...lol. Anyway i'm assigned to make a family tree of the 1st branch. And we would all form a group in facebook.



I guess i can't really hate my grandpa. Patriarchal system. Once again stunned by the family wealth of my other relatves. haha and pple say i'm rich. Still seeing how the rich live, makes me more humble i guess. BEWARE PRIDE MORTAL!



Yiyu gave me $50 MPH book vouchers as a birthday present. She's always such a kind cousin. haha. Of all my cousins, i'm of course closest to those i meet weekly or at least once a month (andy, claire, yiyu &simon). basically all from the 1st branch. except the "elders" like tina lina ben and amy who are all at least 10yrs older than i. But we are still a close knit family

rather than those cousins i meet only like once every yr or later than that. some today i've only met today. *shrugs*

interesting family i have huh? haha. wonder what MT..no..shld be called MH now...will say abt this when i tell her this when i see her next time. Most interesting.