Glow!

What is involved in the art of glowing? Are there pre-requisites for innate genetic correlations in order to form unspoken bonds that illuminate?

Late night tea session at Ya Kun @Northpoint Yishun with mummy after visiting sixth auntie at Khoo Teck Phuat Hospital KTPH level 8 bed 28 turned out to be yummy for both the taste buds and heart petals. No sugar was needed to bring forth the sweetness of our tea stories, just the dedicated art of traditional tea-making and story telling costing S$3.00 and 3 hours.

Stories told by naturing hearts are received with gratitude and tenderness. Maternal bonding is an universal art, taught by nature and trained under day-to-day practicalities through trial and error. There is no right and wrong formulas, just love in a constant striving motion. There is no way to get it perfect at one shot, but instead one must have the diplomacy to not give up on one another, be it mother/ father to daughter/ son or daughter/ son to mother/ father etc.

A man named Ah Koon perhaps never expect Ya Kun to become a legacy when he started out making simple aromatic coffee and kaya toast in his cubicle at 15-B Cross Street. Wooden bench sleeping and many more struggles and sacrifices were pre-requisites from many young men striving to become men back in those days.

My grandfathers did the same, and my father did the same. Was this all acts of training and character building so that one day they may embrace paternal instincts with agility? Was not our forefathers' act of enduring hardship an indirect way of loving and naturing too to make up for the masculine deficiencies in expressing tender loving care?

Would it be possible to leave behind a legacy after our short lived lives on earth? A legacy of loving, bonding, making sacrifices and sharing? Glow bebe, pearly, philip, choon tee, kimmie, baba, kurre, susan, and rolle glow! May tea and coffee stories continue to unfold and unravel the love hidden within us for one another.