Perfect Home…
Blood is thicker than water…
In our progressive society, many at a time we will tend to overexert our self and proceed too fast. But at these times when you are down and at the abyss of your life, only your family would save you, care for you and love you. Nothing would beat having just a day off our manic like life and have a break, a pit stop just to gather with your family and enjoy the tinge of happiness that you will feel when you are with the people you love the most.
This is part of my life, my home sweet home…
Today is my cousin’s birthday, coming together as a family and spreading our loves to one another. We intended to give our cousin a big surprise. Being a Saturday, obviously she was at home (this hindered our process in decorating the place), my brother, mother and I went to my cousin’s place on the pretext that I just wanted to play their Wii and not to wish her happy birthday(of course I really wanted to play the Wii!)
At our arrival, we purposely just merely wished a monotone happy birthday and did not even give her a birthday present. Looking at her dejected face we knew our plan worked!( Evil plan but still very wonderful!) Then to prevent her from seeing through our plans we forced her to go out with friends to maybe watch a movie.
Once the “target” is out of range we can get on to business.
First of all we had to arrange our decorations. “Here, here, here and here…. Hmm or maybe not. How about there?” I asked, we were frustrated when we had to find a suitable spot to place our cute photo of a Mickey Mouse. We all worked our hearts out like worker ants going up and down the big terrace house. We moved the chairs and sofa down to the basement so that we had enough room to scare my cousin and also to play the Wii.
After that we all started spring cleaning, we cleared all our tidbits on the table and replaced them with flowers. Next we took out our killer weapon, our brooms and mops! Within minutes all the germs were exterminated. For our finishing touch, we sprinkle flowers all around the floor to give a very welcoming sense and also so give out a sweet flowery smell.
Lastly, to complete or decoration and preparations we had to just bake a cake. Being very bonded together, we decided to bake our own cake and not to buy one. It is only now when we ‘inject’ the cake with our tender loving care which makes the sweet extra sweet and a sense of family love. Inexperienced in baking cake as we were, we followed my home economics textbook. Never had I expected that this home economics would be my life buoy. Sugar, butter, egg and flour, in no time all the ingredients were added in and now all we had to do was to wait. Looking proudly at our “growing child” in the oven we had a great sense of achievement. Psss…. As we open the oven the sweet smelling smell of the vanilla we had added before came piercing through my nose (we almost fainted, ha ha).
Screech… the door knob turned.
“The Target” has been spotted! We quickly went into action, we turned off the lights and pretended that no one was at home. In total pitch darkness, none could contact with anyone and also unable to see each other. Once my cousin had turned on the light we sprang into action! “Happy Birthday Kevina!” We all jumped out of our hiding place and shouted so loudly that even the neighbors nearby almost came over to complain!
Tears of anxiety and happiness came rolling down my cousin’s eyes, it was truly the tears of family love. Thinking we all had forgotten about her, she never had expected that we had actually already installed a surprise for her!
No sooner we already installed the Wii, off we go playing our hearts out on the guitar, drum and microphone. As professional as we seemed we had no prior experiences in playing these instruments. We had a time of our life trying to form our very own garage band! We named ourselves the Lim Brother Band! Strumming our life away on the guitar and slamming down on the drum as if we were on drugs! Each of us had different strengths; I personally was exceptionally good at the drums! I was given a nickname “God of Drums”, I was getting almost 99% for all my beats!
The time for cutting the cake had arrived! Soon the cake was served to everyone and we were all drenched in sweat from head to toe. Immediately we munched down on the cake which seemed so small as compared to our humongous appetite. “Oh no! I think we had added salt to the cake instead of sugar!” I said. After a moment of silence( I think it was to process the thought about having a salty cake) came a uproar of laughter! We had been so detailed and delicate in doing all the preparations and at the most minor thing we had let our guards down! Haha, we are so foolish! Even so, when we eat such a salty cake, we still feel a tinge of sweetness lurking in the depths of our heart!
This is my home sweet home!