Welcome Year 2012

Happy New Year to all.
Spending time on new year's eve alone,
Is something couldn't been proud of.
Alone and lonely, what a heck!..

Moments like this, a family like mine was supposed to be one,
With all those foods and fruits prepared on center table.
In my thoughts, I could picture out still
How the four of us bade farewell to the passing year
And as well, welcomed the coming year.

The moment a coming year stepped on our door,
We immediately gathered in the dining to do our yearly tradition.
A tradition wherein my father will make one slice on one of the fruits,
He then make one bite then pass on to my mother for another bite,
This time a bite will be come from me then the rest of that fruit
Shall be finished by my younger sister followed by a kiss for each.
This is our way of wishing us lucks and holding us tight,
For a peaceful whole year round as one.

Now is different, our family became bigger.
Things weren't like they were before.
My sister with her husband and their baby
Will spend their new year's eve alone and do their own tradition.

What makes it sad, we all spend our new year's eve alone.
My mother in the Philippines, while my father in Dammam, Saudi
And me here alone and lonely in this foreign land Taiwan.
I miss you my homeland, I'll be back soon
To spend the next new year's eve with you...