sundays

we came home from a brief overnight trip to melaka this morning to stay with my grandparents and to visit a temple we love. i swear, i'm going to make sure the house my grandparents have never gets sold off, because it's absolutely beautiful and so simple, i hope i inherit it someday! it's a big bungalow with three rooms upstairs, three bathrooms, and plenty of space. hey, it can easily house eleven people every chinese new year. and i love the fact that it has a small pond, a lovely tiled porch, a pretty white swing which has been there longer than i've been alive, and a HUGE garden with flowers all around. plus it has fruit trees in the back garden. what more could anyone ask for?

since it was a VERY brief trip (we got there at about five in the evening and left at twelve today), we didn't get to do much, but it's always relaxing to hang out there. and malaccan food is always great.

we got home in good time, and we're now just hanging out. we watched "hancock" on tv earlier with doughnuts and cheese buns and coffee walnut cake and tea, and now we're just waiting for it to get late enough to make dinner. we're making bacon aglio olio with a quick dessert afterward. haven't decided what that dessert will be, though. i'll just see what we have around the house and whip something up.

sundays are days to spend in a truly bohemian way. my ideal sunday? waking up early, making tea, sitting around drinking it while eating strawberries, then having a nice warm shower. then maybe a spot of shopping with family or friends, lunch at a cafe, then catching up with lifelong family friends and the older generation of the family. coming home to sit around chatting with treats and tea and good music to enjoy and our dear dog at our feet. flipping through magazines and reading a book. drawing a bit. playing guitar and singing. chocolate. more tea. then whipping up a simple dinner and enjoying our creation. the music would continue into the night, and maybe my dad would get out his pipe or our sheesha and we'd be allowed to have a puff or two. and my sister and i would get a super-mild lychee martini each to sip and we'd all dance. and then we'd talk and talk, and when we get tired we'd all have hot showers and fall asleep in cozy beds and snuggly pyjamas. ah...

there's something about spending some time with my parents' friends. they're a really cool crowd and they're all great fun to hang out with. they have a book club and once a month or every two months we get together and they discuss the book while the kids hang out with each other. we've all known each other our whole lives, so it's good fun. then we have dinner -- yum, it's good to have friends who can cook!

so, coming back to the subject of sundays...

how would you spend YOUR ideal sunday?

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