Sunday, January 29, 2006
7:20 pm
either chinese new year has grown out of me, or i have outgrown this public holiday.
there just isn't anything more about this festive season to look forward to.
let's see.. most of my relatives are not in singapore, there isn't as much activities to be excited about anymore and the worst was that no one bothered to be more understanding, compassionate or tried to treat me more kindly than usual.
i guess the only thing to be excited about during chinese new year nowadays is the red packets. i know that's very superficial of me to say this but this is the real truth now. years ago i could have truly enjoyed this time of the year but now, i'm not that sure anymore.
speaking of red packets, i think i have around $400 ++, as jt counted to me when she came over to my house a few hours ago. she told me that most of my red packets have $50 notes and the smallest note i have is the $10 ones.
whoa now that's scary, since i only got around $150 last year.
oh well, it doesn't mean that i have extra cash to spend anyways. it goes straight inside my bank plus i don't have a habit of spending that money when i get allowance every month. also, i rather spend the money that i save from my allowances.
good way to save money haha.. or maybe it's just because i'm not much of a spendthrift.
what i don't like about this day that i have to visit my great-grandmother's house. well, technically it's her house but since she moved to australia with a few of my grandaunts last year, it's my grandaunt-in-law's house now.
i can never have a proper meal there. i know i should be nice and try to eat some stuff but when it comes to food that one isn't accustomed to, there is only so much that he/she can stomach.
not that it's not good, it's just that i'm just not used to the taste.
so i ended up eating instant noodles when i got home at around 4pm.
plus my distant cousin is such an anti-social brat. she practically sulks in a corner the whole time and only talks to her parents or grandmother (my grandaunt-in-law).
my distant aunt is getting married this may and they have a seat saved for me for their wedding dinner so i guess i'm obliged to attend.
since there's food, for what reason should i not go? haha..
from what i heard from my mother, there was a point in time (or maybe a few points in time) that he had wanted to leave her but considering that she could always get a lot of money (from my grandaunt-in-law, her mother) from time to time, he gave themselves another chance or something along that line.
don't know if that's true but hopefully things work out even if that aunt of mine isn't a total goody-two-shoes, after all, she's a nice person other than the fact that she likes to take money from her mother when she has a job already.
one other reason why i dislike chinese new year is that there will always be this dish that my grandmother will cook. it's not that i don't like it, in fact, i like it a lot because of the mushrooms and the meat but you see, she will always put in sea cucumber.
now you would most probably say that i could always avoid that thing and just eat the other ingredients but my mother will always ALWAYS force me to eat it.
dammit! do you see me telling you that carrot is good and attempt to shove it down your throat when you told me that you don't like carrots?!
different people have different tastes ok? so stop trying to stuff that weird, jelly-worm-like-with-blister-and-bumps-all-over.. THING into my system!! GAH!!
i want that ayumi hamasaki (miss)understood cd!! argh!!
i think i will have enough finances left over from january to buy it, YAY ^_^