CNY! Happy new year!

26th January 2009

Hooray! It is chinese new year! Firstly I would like to wish all of you people a happy new year, now where are the ang pows.......oops....... I mean... hope all your wishes come true! I started off the day by kneeling down in front of my parents and holding two oranges in my hand, wishing them to have prosperity and stuff like this in chinese using rather chim idioms, half asleep. Well, as sleepy as I was, after staying up last night watching the celebrations, it was the only way to get two gigantic ang pows which contain alot of money of course!

We skipped breakfast like yesterday and went to my grandmother's house again. I sure hope I lose weight soon! Well what I did not know was that there was a buffet waiting for me at my grandmother's house. Well there goes my chance to do even one pull up. I started gobbling up the food as it was really delicious and probably had about two and a half servings, and I only came to my senses when,oh my god, I realised that I could not walk steadily for the second time after a meal, what had I done...

After that I took a few pictures with my cousins, well actually there was alot of pictures taken, so much that I think that was the only moment of my life I took so many pictures at one time. And I would not have done it if my aunt and cousins asked me to do so, and you don't normally say no to your relatives' requests, so I had no choice. As I tried to smile in front of the camera as hard as possible, alot of people came pouring into the house, phew, I did not have to take pictures anymore.

'Thank you' became a word that I kept using as ang pows from everywhere came towards me. There was not a moment I left the living room as from my past experiences, once you leave the living room, even for a moment, you might miss the ang pows too! It was not until about 15 minutes later that all of the ang pows were given out.

It was not long until one of the most important parts of the chinese new year celebrations came( well to me at least ), for some you might probably guess what it is..... Yes! It is time to gamble, and we mean the real deal!My family would only be able to do this once every year and that was during chinese new year. The games ranged from Bingo to blackjack and it was really fun, at least for the children as the money we betted was all from our parents, and if we won money it would be ours, and if we lost money, we would not feel sad as the money lost would be from our parents!It was hilarious!

However, on the second day of chinese new year, things were not as good. Even thought we recieved many ang pows on that day, my legs were beginning to break and I was felling really lethargic as we were moving from house to house, and you would not be able to imagine how tiring it is to have thirteen grand uncles' and aunties' houses to go to, and not even including my uncles and aunties. I was so tired that about every five minutes I would be asking,' can we go home??' and I even slept at one of my relative's house.

This has helped me learn an important lesson, never have more than five children or it will be hell for the future generation. No wonder people choose to have less kids these days, this has to be the reason... I think! Whatever the case, I wish all of you to have a great year ahead!