Our CNY for 2012

My! my! What had happened to January? It's so fast into Feb already and I'm here, procrastinating at all the work I need to do. All the bills I need to pay, that is. Shiats! I hope the bank won't be coming over to clamp my padlock.

So, CNY was here and done. Oh wait. There's officially another few days left but unofficially, it's over for most of us. We are slowly moving into our normalcy but with the holidays all over the calendar moon, how are we supposed to do that? A bit tough.

Let me recall our last week spent at our hometown.

We ran into a crazy, unnecessary traffic jam on the highway on our balik kampung frenzy. Both my elder brother with his family and us were together in the jam at almost the same time, knowing through the sms-es sent here and forth. Being in a private car ourselves, we had the privilege of changing our course of direction while they had no choice but to stick to their current mode of transport which was the bus taking them from KLIA to Ipoh direct.

All in all, it was moderately ok for us, taking slightly over 1.5 hours more KL-Ipoh while they were in the bus from 2-9pm that day. Painful!

Anyhow, we stuck to the plan to eat our reunion dinner together at my mom's place on the 29th day of the chinese calendar and plopped into bed over midnight. Life was gonna be crazy from then on.

Basically, every CNY had been the same, and there wasn't any other difference this year too. I helped out more though, having said my mil wasn't feeling very good, but hey! she was always at the mahjong table with no signs of anything wrong! hmm...

This year, I changed my home visits a bit and instead of going to my dad's relatives for "pai-nien", we went to my mom's side. It was truly fun and my 2 other cousin sisters wanted to have another gathering again and we agreed to meet up on the 4th day. It had been good.

Korkor noticed the slight difference and that surprised me. He asked me why we weren't at y-koong's relatives this year and I asked him back why it concerns him. He said there are more angpows from there! Kakaka... I had indirectly shortchanged his angpow value for the year!

Apart from that, we hadn't have any friends' gathering at all. Naturally, I was very disheartened since we had been meeting up almost every year after our separation ways. Somehow, I feel that wasn't a good sign. Just pray for my close sixth form friends that they are well.

With a lou-sang big lunch, that marked the end of the festival for us at home and we set to come back home to our new comfortable home. I missed it so much.