See and Why

11:13pm - 20 February 2007 - 726 views -
Posted in: Celebrations

Happy Chinese New Year! Yes, I know this is a little late but I was a little busy for the past couple of days. I skipped a class last Friday so I could get home earlier. Haha.. it’s something I rarely do but had to this time because I was following my aunt’s car home, so it wasn’t up to me to decide the time.

I reached home late evening on that Friday, but didn’t do much else because I could barely stay awake. Was too tired after a long day so I went to bed rather early that day. What I do remember is I fought zombies with my grandpa in my dream that night. Seriously.

The next day, I had to start working. Like every other year. Except this year I didn’t curi-tulang as much as before. *innocent face* But actually there weren’t much left for me to do when I got home. Much of the work are already done, and I only had to put up some of the decorations. It’s not that I didn’t want to help, there weren’t anything else left for me to do! *more innocent face*

The major event, however, on the night of CNY eve was the mega-dinner at home. Dinner for 32 people. That’s thirty-two. My entire dining room wouldn’t fit that many people. We had to set up tables in my veranda and yet we still couldn’t all have dinner at the same time because there just weren’t enough seats. I was among the last to get a seat, luckily there were still food for me. Luckily. Otherwise heads will roll. Then again, a dinner this big is not something very common here. The last time there was a dinner as big as this was when the same bunch of uncles and aunts came down from KL. Except this time, the babies and little kids weren’t so little anymore.

The next day was the open house day, as always. People come people go. I eat they eat I eat more. Friends come friends eat I eat friends go. Everybody go we pack clean and pack and clean and pack more and clean even more. End of story. People were everywhere, I don’t even feel comfortable in my own home anymore. I was so tired that night, yet I went out with my friends to watch Norbit at midnight. A reasonable show, if you shut off your brain. The jokes are extremely exaggerated, I know it’s meant to be that way but sometimes I just can’t comprehend them. Anyway I got home at 2, considerably early considering I didn’t follow my friends for a yumcha session afterwards and went straight to bed.

The next thing I know, I was a linesman in a soccer game. Running back and forth across the field. And then I was abducted or something, and was forced to take a quiz.

I’ve lost countless brain cells trying to decipher my dreams. Even Norbit made more sense than them. I might go mad one day with all these insane dreams I have.

Second day of CNY was visiting day, as always again. I went to a relative’s house. I went to another relative’s house. And yet another one. End of story. Even my Chinese New Year celebrations have turned into a routine! I’m so bored and boring.

Today, I visited a few more of my relatives. And then I went to my friend’s house for a while. Played a bit of his PS2. Died a few hundred times in MGS3. Painstakingly finished the…. prologue. And by the time the title screen appeared I had to leave for dinner already because my grandpa is insisting that dinner will not start until I get home. Talk about tension. Dinner was strange. We had leftover Malay food, processed Korean food and more leftover home-cooked food. But my mum made some caramel pudding. Yummmmmmmy. I ate two. I’m going to eat another one tomorrow before I leave.

My Chinese New Year celebration was just like many of the years before. It was good, but it was no different.

Happy Piggy New Year