Chinese New Year is officially over.. for me of course... In fact, my chinese new year celebration ended after the 1st day of Chinese New Year.... Yeah, all this while my chinese new year only consist of 2 days.. Chinese New Year Eve.. and Chinese New Year.. that's it.. the rest were.. school holidays.. though I still get angpau from others.. but I don't seem to show any enthusiasm after the 1st day...
The only thing I enjoy is eating
mandarin oranges.. lots n lots of it till I shit myself upside down.. and
Kuih Ka pet..... Oh ya, and
happy nuts.. which doesn't really makes you happy (but very addictive)..
But of course, if you were speaking about childhood... I wouldn't deny that I love Chinese New Year...When I was just a little girl..
Chinese New Year was the
BOMB! to me... It's like the second best to
Christmas.... &
Hari Raya would be 2nd runner up... I wouldn't give a shit about
Deepavali...
I remembered on the very 1st day of Chinese New Year, we would get up early.... put on new clothes.. go give parents drink tea all those stuff.. bla bla bla... then the best thing...
Ang paus... not just from family.. Friends of family who came ( we never go bai nian. coz, my grandparents are the eldest.. so everybody come to us) & then they would give u ang paus... & we graciously accept.. and run off to a small corner, and impatiently tear open.... TEAR.. like... furiously ripped off the packet.. not slowly, take my time opening the seal to see how much money we get..Then, we would go to the neighbouring houses shouting
"Gong Xi Fatt Choi, Fatt Choi, Fatt Choi......"
.. Then the aunties will come out with welcoming hands... and of coz more red packets..
Of course, when we are small, we don't really give a damn about manners unless we were infront of our parents whose hands are gripping the terrifying cane... So, we would see how much money we got... sometimes we get RM5 which is alot to us.. sometimes RM1.. which is still acceptable... some ah.... ai yor.... coins!! 20 cents, 50 cents COINS!!! Which of coz is a big disappointment for us.. & to cope with that, we would exclaimed loudly :
" HAH!! SO LITTLE ONLY AH!!"
Gosh, you should see the faces of those aunties... Their first expression was shocked, then in split seconds, you see embarrassment.. then in another split second... smiles.. to hide the embarrassment... All these happen within 2 seconds...
Then, I will compare with my brother how much ang pau we got... My brother always wins.. I don't know why. Till now, I still have no idea why... Anyway, that was when you are small.. like tiny small.. where people still think you are cute.. Then grow up a few years... you do that, you get a door slammed in front of your face.. Chinese New Year.. is not as fun as it is already....
& now... On this Chinese New Year day... I slept in the whole morning... see.. just another damn day... don't blame me... I'm half chinese...
Last time, you get to play with fireworks... legally.... till some kids decided to blow up their fingers thus its decided fireworks are dangerous... though you still see people playing fireworks these days... but less... Like this year, some guy was caught for setting fire crackers.... how ridiculous is that... It's not that he set fire crackers all the time, its just only for festive season... & it's just only for that particular day.. like that also catch...
I noticed there are lots of people quite disappointed with this year's major clashes of events.. Like Chinese New Year and Valentines Day... I mean come on... that Valentines Day is for the Western side.... I mean for chinese.. the official Valentines days falls on the
15th day of the Chinese New Year, right??? Where in the olden days, young chinese virgins would go and throw mandarin oranges into the river.. and expect some young handsome scholar who isn't gay (there were no such thing as prince charming riding on the horse.. or knight in shining armour) picks up the orange.. then instead of riding off together towards the sunset.. the dude will then propose to the desperate gal or parents, which results in marriage, which is the union of both young man and young women... which proceeds to sex where they fuck each other happily and of course produce lots and lots of offspring to continue on their herritage....
Of course, this time more modern already, I don't think anybody want to throw mandarin oranges in the river.. I mean... are you sure you wanna pick up a mandarin oranges from the rivers in our country?? If I see a mandarin orange floating on the river... I wouldn't know that it's an orange.. instead thought of it as a shit.. & also, if you want to throw oranges in the river, I don't think you can too.. coz you'll get charge for polluting the river.. Imagine, 10000 hundred gals throwing oranges into the river.. I think before the dude gets the orange, there will be no river.. coz all clogged up... So.. enough with the oranges.. My point is.. you get to celebrate Valentines day what... no big deal.. In fact, the 14th of February wasn't even a lover's day..it was a memorial day for some fella named Saint Valentines...
see how history was twisted... p.s Someday, I would filled a police car with lots and lots of fireworks and crackers.. lit it.. & then sit back to watch a gigantic display of explosion and combustion.... where engines and metal meets gunpowder... someday..
