Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Happy Chinese New Year.
firstly, happy chinese new year to everyone. As usual, this cny i haven been in singapore. I went back to malaysia. This new year, is wierd. I'll just write down some of the my experiences of my chinese new year.
It was reunion dinner as usual in the new year's eve. One of my uncle couldn't be present cause he was in america or something. So i just had my dinner, the food still tastes the same after all these years. My grandma's cooking never changes...in a good way. =D
Anyway, i met my cousins who most of them i only meet during this festive season. Talked to some of them, just decided to hang around the house. As usual, we played playstation 2 , pro evolution aka winning 11. Betted wif my cousins, as usual i won. =X ha. Cause i actually had the game in my laptop and i play it very very often . So naturally i had a advantage. haha. Won like 15 ringgit playing the game.
Next morning , it was chinese new year. A day we , the cousins , the adults (uncles ,aunties , grandma,grandpa) gather at the hall at start wishing each other "Happy New Year" at the same time getting our angpaos. pao pao! As usual, we , the cousins, need to first greet grandma and grandpa, kneeling down, paying our respects, wishing them chinese new year, then collecting our angpaos. Its like everyone knows the drill, having done this for so many years. The newborn will be guided their parents so that they will know what to do in the next few years time, after they had grown older.
Next its time, everyone wish each other "Happy New Year". I then collected angpaos from my uncles and aunties. My auntie said that i wear like Singpore Idol , Hady Mirza. Bloody hell. Just because i wear long-sleeve shirt , and carrot jeans (yea, my cousin call the slim fit jeans carrot jeans.mockery.) Everyone laughed . haha.
Next up was photo-taking session. The whole family stand together to take a photo. Normally my uncles' maids will help out to take the pictures . However, this year there none of my uncles actually have maids with them so someone actually has to sacrifice to take the pictures. After the whole family picture, its the individual family pictures. The eldest uncle is the first , followed by the 2nd eldest ...etc. My dad is the fourth i think, so i took a picture or two with my dad.
After the photographing session , we would go for lunch at my grand-aunt's house i think. If i'm nt wrong, she's my grand-aunt. haha. i nt sure also. We got to go there every year to have our chinese new year lunch.After lunch, we would then head back to grandma's and slack around. Play our playstation games. Watch little cousins play their ultraman, dragonball. Looking them play is just plain funny. haha.
After that, watched lion dance. They sucked aniwae. Not nice at all.
The 2nd or 3rd day, i then went to edwin and errol's grandma's place. I go there every year, to visit. Ok, edwin and errol are my father side cousins. So i went to edwin's mum's mum's place. Kinda confusing , but nevermind. There, unlike my grandma's have much much more people. They had a buffet, and like 30 people were in the house? Ya, that many. Imagine me not knowing more than 10 of them, super scary eh. Trust me. Damn scary. But its very fun there, i gamble there, laugh laugh. They are very friendly people. They had lion dance in their house also, it was much much better. Alot of nicer. The lion actually spat beer. I kena twice. My shirt wet wet. In the night, my cousin actually let off fireworks, the real one. The one you see in Singapore's national day parade. yaya. tt kind.I think singapore u do that, you go in changi prison already. I then ride motorcycle. haha my first time.After that , went to have supper with few of errol and edwin's cousins. Eat Naan, its actually like roti prata but much much much nicer. Wonder why Singapore dosent have it. After that , went to eat super spicy cockles and fried rice. Damn nice man.
Then went back to grandma's to stay for the night. Stole my grandpa's ciggrattes and smoked with my cousin...hahaha.I then rode motorbike again. Then my cousin, errol, who is one year younger then me rode on the main road fast like hell. Super dooper fun man , without helmets somemore. We then stopped at 7-11 to get drinks.Then rode back again.
Then the next morning, which is tuesday morning, i woke up , then went to edwin's and errol's grandma's place again. I gambled again and lost RM20 of blackjack, its alot considering i only bet Rm1 per game. After that, went to do some shopping with my cousin , he bought quiksilver filp-flops at few tees and a water bottle and i bought myself a bag. My dad call for me to go home, says we are leaving for singapore soon.
Then i went back my grandma's, have my dinner, packed my bags. Ready to leave for Singapore.My dad then suggested that i stay at my cousin's place at jb, he say scared jam so i agreed. So here i am, at my cousin's place blogging. I then bid farwell to my relatives, espicially grandma , i love her to the lots man. My dad then started driving. Then he drove to some house i had never seen before, then i asked him where is this? He said "this is my girlfriend's house." I then Ohhhh.... I didnt know he had a girlfriend in meleka or anything much bout his affairs. At least he didnt lie to me , when he could and i respect him for that. My cousin actually saw my dad's girlfriend before when they concidentally took the same bus from jb to meleka before.
So , my way back to JB, in the car with my dad, my dad's girlfriend and my cousin. After reaching jb, my cousin and i then went up to his place while my dad and his girlfriend went back to his place. My dad has a house in jb too.
I have told you mostly about my time in malaysia. Now its time on my reflection on this chinese new year. To me , this chinese new year dosent really feels like chinese new year. There is neither much harmony or laughter as it were in the past years.I mean that's what i feel la. Finally, there are a few incidents i want to highlight this chinese new year.
On our way to malaysia on new year's eve, on the highway, we actually met with an accident. It was raining very very heavily, then my dad unable to brake in time , bang to a Toyota Vios. It then resulted in my dad's car bonet having a very big dent. Good thing , its now with the mechanics.
Sadly to say, this year my cousins and i rarely interacted. I do not know why though. I miss times like 10 years ago, when there were onli like maybe 8 of us, the younger ones werent even born and we will lock ourselves in the room engage in mass pillow fights, wrestling and screaming and screaming. We will den watch each other play playstation 1 and of course the almighty SEGA. Hahaha. Street fighter, Crash bandicoot...Those were the times....If you were to watch us 10 years ago, i swear that u will think that we will be very close in years to come but sadly, this is not the case. This year, i rarely talked to some of them and to some my first words to them were when i was leaving and they bid me farwell. We talked little then i left.....
I don't know why have i became so anti-social or the inability to open up to strangers or something.But, i dont think its introvertism or anything. I talk alot alot alot alot but i don't talk to strangers. ha. I'm a creep, i'm a wierdo.
Aniwae, there this very intresting incident. While my cousin was driving me back from supper, there is a cat beside a kitten who is lying down on the road. So my cousin, horn the car trying to chase the cat away. The cat didnt move and just stared at the car. Then my cousin, tried to drive the car a little forward in attempt to chase the cat away again. Still the cat stood there. Then we realise that the kitten was already dead, and the mother was trying to protect it or something like that, even willing to take a car bang for that.
I guess that is all i have to say. I'm happy i finally know how to ride a motorbike.
Happy Chinese New Year once again.
song of the week : Augustana - Boston.
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