Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Happy CNY! It's a strange year where CNY lands smack on Valentine's Day - I'm guessing the restaurants and hotels are licking their wounds this year, from the merger of 2 of the most lucrative days in the year. Florists too - to spend CNY with their family, or to do their annual $15-a-rose ripoff? Anyway, it's the last year we're receiving ang paos! Not that it matters, but the thought of dishing out red packets next year is very strange. Maybe I'll make things hard for people, like give out decent amounts of money but in foreign currency. Yes, that makes a neat trick.
For the first time in a couple of years, I was actually able to visit my grandma in Malaysia for her birthday on CNY as well. Last year it was work, and the year before it was the MBBS or something like that. It's very odd seeing people that are related to me but I only half know of (or 5%, more like), and seeing young cousins all grown up. I also met up with Phillip, a Brit living in a hut in my grandma's plantation. We know about one another through my parents, but we've never really met until this year. He's a photographer by profession, and a freaking good one too - you really couldn't tell by his looks and his rudimentary equipment. Had a great chat about life in general over 4 bottles of his home-brewed beer (Brits ...) and learnt a lot, a hell lot, in those few short hours. It really makes one think, and it's been AGES since I've met anyone who actually can instigate that in me anymore. It's been a fruitful trip.
Argh I really hate CNY festivities and visiting. It's a huge PITA, and time's never enough. I want the holidays to do stuff at home, not make forced talk with people who are just way too UNinteresting. Just checked on the Sarracenia which have been in the fridge for the last 2 months, and 2 of them are now coming out of dormancy. Crap. Need to pot them up within this week.
Wenky
10:43 PM
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