Hello everyone, Xin Nian Kuai Le! (cant type chinese on my lappie)
haha its been over a year since i last blogged.. was talking abit with sarah the other day..i’m just not the kind who can blog on a regular basis unless there is the urge to.. like before the A’s where i was really stressed ..
anw, i’m here today cos i’ve a sudden urge to write down all my thoughts. so many things happened that i felt like putting it all somewhere cos i really wanna remember this particular CNY..
before going back msia, i already expected that the mood would not be as great cos less relatives are going back .. all i looked forward to was meeting all the other relatives and sitting down for meals and my grandparents and the festive lively mood ..
Chu xi: left sg on wed afternoon.. skipped macro lectue which was from 2-4pm .. lucky not too much jam .. had first round reunion dinner at wai po’s place then went back to po po’s house .. the usual (but less lively & noisy) countdown .. and then my sis, yen and i played dai di til around 4 .. haha so many hours and yet my sis and i only managed to earn RM29.50 from yen combined ..
Chu yi: woke around 9 and then went to wai po house and tai ma house to bai nian.. went back to po po house for kangxi lai le/wo cai wo cai wo cai cai cai which all the below 25 ppl would crowd to watch in the 2nd room .. we always lu4 lu4 xu4 xu4 do that during the 4.5 days in between other stuff .. watched Alvin and the chipmunks too .. goddad left around 9pm .. we tried really hard to make him stay longer but he said he wanted go back to eyesmate.. so we hid his car keys while he was packing .. suddenly we saw from the window that his car was moving!! Haha we took the wrong keys!! Later around 11 plus, yilin, sis and i decided to have steamboat by ourselves! Haha .. when ¾ of everyone was asleep! Waited for the food to digest abit before sleeping at 2 plus .. that night was the best sleep we had cos no yy and no zhong qi to make noise early in the morning .. and yilin and i had a whole room to ourselves..
Chu er: woke around 9 (again) and went to 2 old kampong areas to see lao da gu1, lao dua gu2, lao li(zee? – hokkien meaning 2nd but somehow it became li over the years, no idea why) gu2, lao si yi etc etc etc with po po, gong gong, da gu, sis, mum and dad .. grandparents were really happy cos they haven’t seen all these distant relatives for years .. it was really cool cos within the kampongs, they live next to one another .. then went to wai po house again .. er yi and xiao yi were there ald .. played the kids’ fav da feng chui .. had shen xian can (as described by yen – who followed us there for our usual chu er meal since all the aunts will be back) crab by san yi, yu sheng, thai-styled abalone salad by xiao gu2, the usual steamboat, then secret recipe oreo cheesecake! Mmmm! But before the dinner commenced, we waited for wai gong to come back cos he went out for mah-jong.. all 25 plus of us went downstairs and stood in 2 lines at either side .. then when he opened the door! We clapped and sang “gong xi gong xi gong xi ni ah!” with the kids banging on pots and pans for sound effects haha .. Then after dinner, we went back to po po house .. er gu was back already and everyone was asking da gu to stay cos she bought bus tickets for the next morning at 745 .. haha then while no one was looking (which was kinda hard in a small house cramped with so many ppl), yilin and i sneaked into da gu’s room and stole her tickets! Then dunno how come she went to check her tickets about an hour later and found it missing! She immediately suspected that someone stole her tickets .. but everyone just denied (by now, alot of ppl knew we had taken it) .. then er gu instructed us to just hold on to it and dun say anything .. later into the night, we passed it to er gu and there were a few times she almost let the cat out of the bag!
Da gu: ah mei, give it back lah, (da gu zhang) need to work on Sunday
Er gu: ok then i give him one ticket, then u stay?
Da gu: so u have it lah!
Er gu: (really calmly) no .. i’ll go get it from the kids ..
Hahahah! Lawyer jiu shi lawyer!
Finally da gu decided to just go sleep cos she was sure that whoever took it would return her .. some time later, er gu relented and left it on da gu’s table before she herself went to sleep .. we (me, sis, yilin, yen, kangwei, jane) didn give up .. we decided to write her a note so that she would see it in the morning and not go .. we searched around and could find a big enough piece of paper! So we bought a 50cent 8 or 10 page notebook from gong gong.. then might as well use the whole book !! haha .. we wrote what we initially intended to write on a piece of paper on the first page of that book .. qu liu you ni jue ding (thought of by yilin), qin qing dui ni zhong yao ma? (thought of by me!) then we each wrote her stuff on separate pages to fill up the whole book .. er bo took our marker and stamped his thumbprint! Haha .. it was really a very heartwarming experience and we worked til around 4 plus .. then we were thinking of cooking breakfast for her but end up decided not to cos didn wan po po to wake since she’s a light sleeper and sleeping in the room near to the kitchen.. so then we were all so exhausted that we slept and hoped for the best .. as heard from er gu, da gu woke up and saw the book we placed on a chair outside her room ( we wanted to put it on the table next to her tickets but the door creaked very loudly when we tried to open it so we didn) then she cried when she read the book and was really undecided whether she should leave .. and then er gu, our mastermind/kao shan persuaded her to leave .. traitor! Da gu then tried to wake kang wei to send her to the bus terminal and even squeezed his nose tight so he couldn breathe .. but kang wei bravely tolerated and pretended to sleep .. end up the traitor sent da gu to the terminal ..
Chu san: woke around 9 (again) by yy and zhong qi cos we slept in the living room.. we escaped to 2nd room to sleep and they still kept disturbing us! Rah! Went to er yi’s house for lunch with everyone there .. then went back to po po house in the late afternoon while the kids went back to wai po house for nap time .. watched haunted mansion with sis, yen, zhong ning, zhong qi, yy.. then we went to wai po house for dinner .. another very heartwarming meal with nice food to complement .. haha .. many rounds of yum seng .. sons-in-law with wai gong, daughters with wai po (including me as xiao xiao nv er), then all the grandchildren with wai po, wai gong (with me now as da da shun) and then me and sis and mum and wai po .. then xiao yi and wai po plus some of the kids went to po po’s house with us to bai nian .. talked til 11 plus then they went back .. at first we decided to sleep, but dunno who suggested playing princess dai di (thats wad i call it, its otherwise more commonly known as as***** dai di – i dun like that name) played with sis, yilin, yen and kangwei .. with the couch unknowingly becoming the throne! Haha .. played til 4 plus and somehow along the way, we wanted to cook breakfast for everyone, with a special one for po po, but that again would wake po po, so suggested buying, so we somehow went to sleep and wanted to wake at 5 .. haha .. of cos no one did! Even with 2 alarms!
Chu si: woke around 9 (somehow thats always the time that the 2 kids would decide to bother us in the living room) and we escaped (again!) to the 2nd room.. got up at around 11 for more princess dai di .. the day passed ultimately quickly! We played the game til around 6 plus where we had dinner and then packed to leave .. we played the game for a whole night and day! Haha .. then somehow someone suggested leaving together .. er bo and family, my family and san gu and family! So cool! Haha 3 camrys all drving together! But sadly, that was the end .. alot of thoughts ran through my mind on the way back .. po po’s visibly aging alot.. memory losses and getting physically weaker .. i took it for granted that everyone would be like tai ma .. and she still have to take care of tai ma and gong gong during normal days which is really too strenuous for her but she never did complain .. she would always let them eat first and she would eat their leftovers .. on chu san nite, mum, er gu, san gu and most of the children from that generation tried to persuade gong gong to ask his siblings to take care of tai ma cos its really too taxing for po po le.. but his pride proved it difficult for him .. til now, still dunno the verdict .. hope everything goes well ..
cant believe 4.5 days passed so quickly .. its back to work! Must study hard .. loads of pressure from older generations and my own cousins as well.. its gonna be a difficult sem.. no more breaks from now on! (except bai nians and quick v-day celeb!)
STUDY STUDY STUDY!