Friday, February 23, 2007
正月初一头一天 我到婆婆家去拜年 大街小巷都很静 真的好可怜！七个隆咚锵咚锵 真的好可怜~
I really feel that the older I get, the more quiet the new year atmostphere is. Are the people forgetting that lunar new year is the NEW YEAR for ALL CHINESE and they should celebrate? or is it due to the forbidden of 'unauthorised' chinese new year song that is the issue to this quiet & peaceful new year? If only chinese new year is as 热闹 as when I was a young girl...
年初一 18 February 2007 (Sunday)
Went to Ah Ma's House( father side) @ around 1 plus and stayed there for awhile. This year I woke up quite late and spent some time dressing up hence the late visiting. Also normally my family only go over to my grandmother side on the 2nd day of new year (though she only lives opposite us) but this year is abit different, we went over on the 1st day instead. Then chatted with my Ah ma which had an eyelid operation about a week or so before CNY. Realised that she's grown older, her eyes are getting smaller and one of her eye can't see coz of the 青光眼. She's had operation but still can't see. Sad to say her other eye is also blur so she can't really see well. She can only see someone standing in front of her but can't see that person's face. So she moves around the house very slowly & uses her sense of touch to find things. I hope my ah ma will get better or fully recover for the other eye which she's going for operation after CNY.
Then visited my 姨婆's house, saw my uncle's cute little boy for the 1st time then proceeded to visiting my amk Ah Ma's hse. By the time we reached was already 2plus to 3 I can't remember and I think its rather late BUT my 大姨 still haven reach!!! I had a bet with my mom saying my 大姨 confirm haven arrive and I was right! Every year ar she's always the last to reach, she lives the nearest to my Ah Ma leh...my Ah Ma looked more 精神 on that day though I can tell that she's abit tired after sitting on the wheelchair for quite long. Sometimes ar she may seems quite blur BUT her mind is actually very awake k? She can recognised everyone of us, and her eyesight is still very good. She even said I look FAT!!! so sad~ even my Ah Ma said that I'm FAT! My uncles, dad & bro also said so! Aiya partly coz I wore that FAT dress! 哈哈 pushing blame! Anyway, can see that she's the most happy when my sis arrived & gave her an Ang Bao... she was smiling from ear to ear and even said that she'll help my sis do her confinement if she gives birth. Guess she's waiting for another great grandson.
Visited Ah Wu's house that late evening, had dinner then we proceeded to River Hong Bao. I find that this year's River Hong Bao do not have as much things that are so new year leh... instead there is Uncle Ringo which occupies 1/3 of the place, the rest of the space is occupied with lots of small stalls which sells all sorta staff relating & non relating to CNY. Did not get the chance to take photos with the 'deco' as there are too many ahemz pple taking photos. Too bad~年初二 19 February 2007 (Monday)
The 财神爷
The Big Head Dolls & a Drumer
Taken in front of a 'wishing tree'
Stayed home till late afternoon waiting for Ah Wu to come over to officially 拜年 to my parents as the 1st day he saw them was at my Ah Ma's house. But he came so late, my mom already went KTV with her friends so he gave the oranges to my dad instead. We watched tv for awhile the we head out to his 5th auntie's place to pick up his mom & bro. Oh and I earned 2 $10 Ang Bao there. His relatives are quite generous to give $10 Ang Bao, but as compared to last year I only got 2 this year as some of his relatives already left when we arrived. Later that night we went to Loyang 大伯公 (my 1st time there!) with his mom's farni fren, mom & bro. The whole area is SUPER crowded and SUPER smoky! The joss sticks brought tears to our eyes, the whole place is like very 朦胧 to me! Got an Ang Bao from 财神爷 which has this 4 digit numbers & a 50cents coin embossed in it. Its not so easy to get the Ang Bao as you gotta queue for it and Ah Wu's mom's fren is super 厉害 I tell you! She managed to get into the 1st place of the queue lor... then she told us to cut queue & I was 4th in the queue. Ohoho (^.^)Ah Wu & I go over to my opposite ah ma's place to pay her a visit. All my relatives were there too as this year they visited my ah ma on the 3rd day of new year instead of the usual 2nd day. Oh ya and my 2 little bao beiz were there to visit my ah ma too. My family brought them over. Its been so long since my ah ma last her 2 cute little great grand daughters. They are super noisy and hyper active can? After which the 2 girls came to my house for awhile before my brother send them over to their aunty's house@woodland. Then I took a bath and went back to Ah Wu's place AGAIN coz I left my mobile phone at his place! How blur & forgetful~ he was supposed to book in that very night so I have no choice but to go back home with him AGAIN to retrieve my phone & had a little bit of dinner@his place (his mom kept asking me to eat though I already told her my mom got cook). That roughly sums up my 3 days of CNY celebration (^.^)
财神爷 statue@ Loyang 大伯公
This is wads inside the Ang Bao given by 'real' 财神爷
年初三 20 February 2007 (Tue)
I ate TOO MUCH for this CNY and its time for me to cut down on my diet & do more crunches again. I REALLY ATE ALOT... and put on some weight but I enjoy my new year! I enjoy eating the new year goodies! Most importantly I ENJOY myself!
Sometimes I find myself quite pathetic... why do I have to be so troubled by my weight, looks & everything on the external. Then have to force myself to eat less, eat more healthy try to do more exercises etc... I know by eating healthily & exercising is the main concern for my health but why? Why do I have this fat genes in me while some other pple can just eat so happily, dumping all those sinful staff into their mouth and not putting on any weight? For confident purpose I do believe that I'll indeed LOOK so much better if I have a slim figure, or good skin. Yes beauty is only skin deep but without the beauty that I long to have wad is there to talk about that will bring out my internal beauty and confident?
Perhaps I am not the only one who feels or think this way but why do we especially the girls have to be so troubled by everything which affects the external beauty? Why on earth do we have this judgement that slim is always the best? Eg: Why tell a 80kg person that he/she looks alright when YOU will scream at the top of ya voice that YOU do not want this to happen to yourself? Wad if one day when everyone wakes up and they all look the same? hmm this sounds abit scary but wad if? Wad if everybody's faces look the same, sizes and builds are the same... ? Only then you will have to know everyone in depth so as to know wad kinda person he/she is rather than being deceived by their looks or should I say judged their looks?
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