walking down memory lane

Weary from all the moving (in or out, depending on how you view it :-/), my parents and I decided to stop by one of those Hainanese kopitiams on Beach Road for tea. I've always been quite proud of my Hainanese heritage, and the fact that we are very good cooks... And we were not disappointed by our orders of teh-C kosong and Hainanese-style buns (lightly toasted with lashings of kaya and butter, but softer and fluffier than Killiney's). I'm concerned about their livelihood in the upcoming generations of Coke-guzzling youngsters.

Back home, my parents had managed to unearth some of my gran's old photo albums and we had a good laugh at their loud-patterned hiphugger days. Also discovered lots of pics of me from childhood:
Aged four, already knowing how to work the camera (check out the hand on cocked hip!)

Dang, I wish I could return to that innocent time. Was reading a friend's blog and found what he said quite true: (to paraphrase) memories are bittersweet at best because they hearken at things past and gone (Sam used to say smth like this too, but I never really got it then). Of course one can look forward to better times ahead, but we don't if they -will- be better will they?

Bringing to mind wisdom from the Bible:
25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you — you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
(Matthew 6:25-34 TNIV)

Shall meditate on that.