The New Year Episodes
Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:36 AM
It's CHINESE NEW YEAR! Man, i L-O-V-E the new year decorations on the streets. :D Makes me feel New Year-iee even if i wasn't originally.
I am not really fascinated by the New Year goodies. I am fascinated by the festive mood. Everyone's so excited and busy. The stall owners have blooming businesses ( erm, not all i guess ). The streets' filled with new year songs.
New Year's eve was alright. My gu1 gu1 came for steam boat dinner. She gave me a more than expected ang bao ( dun extort me lao yan ). The dinner was alright. My mom cooked shark fin.. but it didn't taste like that of the resturant (which the person who sold my mom the fins promised). It was only until 2 days later that she realised she forgot one ingredient - the all time famous Hua1 Diao1 Jiu3. -_-. hahaha.
Chu1 Yi1 was ok too. Listened to my dad's uncle.. which will make him my grand-uncle, tell stories fm their past. It was pretty interesting. Too bad i can't understand fully what he said. Or else the story would be fantastic! I hope i can hear more of them. As we grow old, they age too.... May they always be healthy.
In the evenings, we visited River Ang Bao. I didn't know so many of my friends don't know what that is. Anyway, River Ang Bao is this New Year funfair where there are performances by overseas groups , food ( the si chuan one is not tt great, the pasa malem kinda food is much better ... and cheaper ) and stalls ( handicrafts and games ). But the best part of it all is the fireworks. Beautiful. Splendid. Captivating. (though the one i saw at marina hotel's big balcony like open space during national day is the best. It's like stars falling on ur head. :) )
Chu1 Er4. Went to my cousin's place. The exterior looks like a condominium lar. Damn nice. The interior... Hahaha, the rooms are practicallyh empty. Not that they needed it to be filled anway. That new hse is more like their hotel than home.. for NOW. We had steam boat for dinner again. Kinda sick of steamboat. I don't really enjoy getting my face steamed by the vapours. +_+. And being risk takers (=gamblers), we (=the kids cousins) started our own black jack gambling dents. hahaha, i earned 80 cents. Not bad eh. ;)
Chu1 San1 is a slacker day. I slept til 10. and went market for breakfast. Practically all the shops are closed. Nothing much to see. After that i visited my Da4 Yi2 and surprise surprise... Iwent sentosa with my mom in the evenings. Hahaha actually we wanted to see the Sentosa Flowers 2006. But i guess we were stupid enough to go in the evening.. near night. >.< The musical fountain was scary. the show starts at 8.40, the seats were already full by 8.00. As in, ppl started queueing, and fm the queue, it is estimated that the seats are fulled, so they closed the queue for 7.40 show. Gosh. -_-
Today's going back day to the office again. Sian. Am frezzing to death again.
