A special moment I enjoyed with my family.

      Hi guys! How's your Saturday so far? I hope it's good. Mine was awesome. For starters, I just had a barbecue! What's more, it's with my family! Before I begin telling you about the barbecue, however, allow me to tell you a bit of my life on Saturdays and that will lead to the matter of the barbecue.

       Every Saturday, my family and I would go to my grandmother's house in the evening, where all my aunties and uncles gather there. We would have dinner and chit-chat with one another. It's usually the case where the young people talk among themselves ( the usual sort of thing: gossip, most popular stuff, etc etc.), and the oldies would say stuff like ''Anyone strike 4D tonight?'' or '' Turn the channel! My show starts already, the one on channel 8 called 'Love' ! ''. Yup, that sort of thing. I found out that the oldies are all addicted to that television show, they seem to chatter and prattle on about it all the time.Anyway, life on the normal Saturday would go on like this. Quite mundane and sometimes boring. So it came as a surprise when our grandmother suggested that we have a barbecue to celebrate the new year. The young people were pretty psyched by this idea and were all chorusing in agreement. The oldies were also nodding in agreement, bobbing their heads up and down and so it was settled. A barbecue was to be held.

        Thus, the normal mundane and boring Saturday was transformed into a full blown party full of life and fun. What's more, the young people and the oldies  interacted with each other while barbecuing ( though I thought they interacted a little bit too much judging by the state of the chicken wings!).On that evening,  lots of people were there, immediate cousins, their girlfriends and boyfriends, distant cousins that I don't know, grand-aunties that I didn't even know existed. It was really an eye-opener for me - the sheer size of my entire family! Also, the place was fabulously decorated. Colourful bunting hung from the wall with  balloons complimenting them. There was even a cacophony of sounds erupting from my cousin's hand phone to liven up the place much more! With the atmosphere set right and the decorations all done, we started the barbecue. I was appointed the official role of ''food taster'' and what a jolly good time I had! I absolutely loved some of the chicken wings, I loved ripping out the meat and letting my hands get all oily and sticky. Of course, I didn't slack the whole time, I got up a few times to cook a chicken wing or two but that was it. While barbecuing ( or more likely just providing some "eye power") I chatted with my grandmother's maid and by the time we finished, we were covered in sweat from head to toe. Nevertheless, it was a job well done. By her of course, not me.

     After that, all the cousins gathered round the table and started chatting enthusiastically, commenting on how one of my cousins polished the food off his fingers and how barbaric it looked. To me, it looked quite ok but I suppose that was how I ate too. Well, you can't blame me, the food was finger licking good! As we were chatting we noticed one of the lesser known distant cousins sitting alone in the living room, looking extremely bored. So we kind of dithered there, wondering if we should invite her to join us. Everyone was apprehensive and was urging each other to approach her. Finally, one of my cousins stood up shaking his head and went in boldly to ask her to join us. Three cheers for him! If he didn't do that, I think we would have dithered on for a longer period of time. Naturally, the first part of the conversation we had with her was pretty awkward but thing smoothed out quickly and soon we were laughing hysterically at each others jokes and stories. Some of the oldies also joined in the fun and told some of their stories too. Not as hilarious as ours but acceptable I suppose. We had a great time talking and I got to know a new cousin! That's one more step to learning the enormous family tree that we have! Soon, however, it was getting quite late and we all departed quite sadly but with rather fond memories of the barbecue.

        Indeed, it was a memorable event spent with my family and  I think it'll dwell in my heart for a period of time. I learnt that good times need not only exist with friends, but can also exist within the family! In fact, it should start with the family for they are the people whom we spend a lot of time with! So, let's all not treat families as the usual nagging and boring type but rather like our best friends and let's start having fun with them too!