Happy chinese new year!
this chinese new year has to be the best chinese new year i've ever had!
lets start from the eve of chinese new year.
i woke up at 5am on the eve of chinese new year and headed to school to pay a special visit to my old cca mates prepping for their performance that day. i entered school in my red class tee tucked into my favourite pair of denim jeans, my eyes half open as i rushed up the stairs to the guzheng room. my day started out fantastic as i spent the entire morning with nicia, eileen, jiaying and yunshan. oh and the school had a lion dance performance this year as usual and i absolutely loved it (a fan of lion dances since i was little) it was so nice to see the girls, the teachers and of course, my gz instructor, johnny chia, again after way too long.
w/ nicia.
w/ jiaying, eileen, yunshan, nicia
w/ jiaying
after the performance, i went for lunch with nicia and yunshan. khengwuo and ryan kinda joined us at the last minute which was awkward because they didnt know yunshan and nicia and vice versa. but i guess we ended up laughing and chatting it up at kfc while having lunch. we talked about all the fun we had in obs which was really cool because khengwuo and i actually met in obs! basically, it was really nice to meet up friends all over again.
that night, my family had a reunion dinner (just like any other family) and it's one of the things that i really look forward to every year during cny. its just nice to have the whole family together just having dinner together, especially when my own family hardly have dinner or go out together anymore. we had a great dinner, bonded with my cousins and (of course) lou hei ;)
w/ the family.
day 1 was awesome because i got to go visit all my relatives that i only get to meet once a year. my family includes a really healthy 109 year old man whom im proud to call my greatgrandfather which leads to me having too many relatives to count. all i had to do was go to each house and collect my ang paos HAHA because you cant expect me to remember how to address each and every one of my relatives. that day, we had 7 stops in total.
my ootd on day 1
ok i got that dress in november 2014 and i've been dying to wear it out for cny HAHA and it cost me less than $16 and it's just so pretty i just cant. anyway, we all went to my maternal grandparents' house for lunch before heading off to 5 different houses spread out over potong pasir to ubi. the 6th stop was my house so we all came to my house just to laze around and watch tv with my cousins. after that, we headed to the last stop which was my paternal grandparents' house. honestly, i really didnt want to go because my grandfather passed away last year, a week before my olevels and this may sound childish but, to this day, i still cant accept the fact. it was really weird not to see my grandfather this year because im always the first to rush up to him to give him a hug. sigh. so we went to their house where i met my aunts, uncles, cousins and grandmother. im not close to my cousins from this side of the family so i just walked around the house, thinking back of the days i use to spend with my grandfather. my grandmother was still as healthy as always, smiling at me when i entered through the door. the last stop kept us out till about 12am before we headed back home to recharge for another day.
day2 only consisted of 2 houses because its a tradition that my mum meets up with her university chinese orchestra clique to celebrate every year on the second day. thats completely fine with us because every year we get to go meet our friends there and play with them haha.
ootd day 2
we reached the first house around noon to have lunch and i was immediately greeted by yi xuan, zhi yi & xiao zhuang. their warm smiles caught me by surprise as i realised that theyve grown so much. yes, they are all much much younger than i am. (primary4-secondary2) so we sat around and watched movies until we all left together for the second house. now the second house is where the fun begins for us kids because every year, we all gather into this room and play wii until midnight. so we pretty much gamed the night away and also, another round of lou hei before all of us headed home.
i was so shagged by the time we came to day 3 because of all the food that ive had and all the nights we spent roaming around singapore visiting. so i was glad that day 3 only consisted of another 2 house.
candid ootd day 3
w/ effie, daphne.
(daphne was wearing heels, im the tallest ok)
we headed to my aunt's house at noon for lunch which was a really really big spread for such a small group of visitors. my uncle recently got married so this was only the second time we've been there for cny. they had noodles, burgers, hotdogs, rice, meat and everything crammed into a small table and food coma hit me even before we left for the second house. after eating, we sat around and watched movies once again. we headed for the last house at night for steamboat and another round of louhei. i was just happy that i got to see snowy again (my cousin's dog)
snowy.
day 3 came to a great end as we got home around midnight for the third time in a row.
day 4 was pretty quiet as all of us were shag from all the visiting for the past few days so we stayed at home and got fat on all the cny snacks that my mum bought.
day 5 was special because my friends visited my house. i mean ive had visits from friends before but this time, we were actually close and we're all 17 so we watched a mature movie at my house. weicheng, daryl, delvin & khengwuo paid my house a visit and we all sat down to watch the interview. let me just say that the interview was awesome even though it was gruesome, had mature content and a truckload of vulgarity. (and we only figured that it was R21 after that) so yes there was some nudity but like i said, we're 17. we're (not) mature. it was fun to have visits from friends and im sure there'll be more in the future. after that, we went for lunch together before heading back home.
all in all, cny 2015 was extremely enjoyable for me and i really hope the future ones would be like that as well!
on another note, i've left jack's place.
no big reason, it's just that i've gotten so sick and tired of the assistant manager playing with her authority like it's a big deal that i just left. and can i just say that quitting became a big deal as well because she made it so hard for me to quit. everyone there is uber nice, just that the assistant manager gets on my nerves (and everyone else's too) too often and i guess everyone has a certain limit. dont fret though! i'm gonna get a new job! in fact, i've already secured one for when school starts. idk how im gonna juggle school and work but i cant survive school without a job. im up for a challenge anyday anyway ;)
i guess i'll just end it here because it's 2 in the morning and i just had this feel to blog about cny.
well, happy cny :)
