Sunday, February 27
Back.
5 weeks. Man I can't believe it's over. Sigh. Time flies.
Oh crap.
I don't wanna return to reality.
Posted by Isabelle at 10:21 pm
Tuesday, February 22
Hmm. Tuesday.
Got a serious case of flu here. Sigh. These things had to happen to me now. I need to shop for stuff for people, which I haven't done anything at all. Zzz. Brings up another problem.
How on Earth would I know what people want?!
Posted by Isabelle at 11:02 pm
Sunday, February 20
Sunday. A week from now and I'll be back in Singapore, facing some heavy stuff. Bleahx.
Results.
Posted by Isabelle at 5:20 pm
Monday, February 14
Happy Valentine's Day.
Posted by Isabelle at 4:46 pm
Sunday, February 13
Fifth day of CNY.
Survived through shaking hands with people I barely knew, pouring and serving drinks, entertaining small kids that ran around the whole house. Got introduced to a new side of my family. Took out old photos of the family that I didn't even knew existed and laughed at all those out-dated hairstyles and funny looking clothes. Lol. Yeah. I survived all that. Kind of nice, lookin at how big my family actually is, and got closer to my cousins, uncles that I now meet almost every day. It isn't all the time you get to see so many people crammed together in a 3-room semi-detached bungalow. I'd it's a once in a lifetime experience, though I'll probably try for the next year, and the next.
I guess it's gonna be hard. I've got to choose between staying back in Singapore, or coming here. I know I'd rather stay here, but I can't neglect people back in Singapore. Difficult decisions. Sigh. Imagine you lived your whole life in one place, and suddenly you want to spend the next few year (at least) in another place, leave your family behind, I bet it's gonna be hard for them to accept. Yeah. Isn't easy for me to see everyone here. Gotta treasure the times I have.
Don't say you got tired of visiting the same relatives every year, been through the same routine, same few houses every year, because you never know when someone's gonna go away, or someone decides to move out of the country. We never treasure stuff we have only until they are gone. For me, I guess you can say I never had them, so I love having CNY here. Nothing beats watching fireworks shoot up in the air with all your cousins and uncles beside you. Yeah.
Happy New Year, everyone.
Posted by Isabelle at 12:16 pm
Thursday, February 10
Woo. That was fast. Chinese New Year'd already come and gone. Yeah. Nice ang baos and everything, but you gotta divide that money into half when you convert into sin dollar. Sigh. Lol. Anyway, had a nice time with the family and everything. Steamboat dinner on the Eve, noisy cousins, even noisier uncles and aunts gathering around the table and everywhere else. Nothing much beats that, I guess. There's always something different from what I always have since young. I'd never looked forward to a Chinese New Year like this one. I hated the routine things back at home. I hated those entertaining, those serving of drinks and tidbits. Sigh. Not that we don't do that here, but at least I'm not the one that had to do it. Heh. I feel more comfy here, for the first time during Chinese New Year. Maybe it had to do with me being around with my dad. Or maybe I just don't like my Singapore relatives. I don't know. All I know was that I want to spend all my CNYs here, if I can.
Really torn between 2 places. It's always the case. Sigh. You never know it's that hard to live with this until you are trapped in the situation. Torn between two sides of my closest people in my life. Yeah. I hate that. But well. I'm talking crap when I'm supposed to be happy on festive occasions. So yeah fine.
We watched our neighbours played with fireworks over at the house. (Believe it or not. FIREWORKS. Photos later. Gosh.) You know, not those kind of loud cracking noises crackers, but those real fireworks you only see on National Day? Yeah. Tons of people all around our area (more like all over Kuching) set off the fireworks around midnight. Can't believe it. And you thought you saw it all at the Stadium if you went to the National Parade. Because in our area all our houses are those single-storey semi-detached kind, you can really see the panorama of fireworks all around you. One of those 'bursts' spanned about 3 houses long, almost covered the sky. Man. Too bad we didn't buy the fireworks. Could have set off a few on our own.
Nice huh? Those fireworks...
Green sparks from behind the house...
Another huge burst...
This one was BIG......
Yeah. Real big fireworks. Then we decided to drive back to the condo, because we live on the tenth floor, so the balcony would be a nicer place to look at the night sky. Man. Almost couldn't see through the fog the fireworks created. Can imagine how much fireworks was set off that night. The view was great. You can see which house set off which firework, then how big it was, what was the pattern... Yeah. Damn cool.
Really spectacular. Kuching police too lax already. Fireworks are supposed to be banned, but people still buy it from illegal vendors and catalogues. Can you believe it? Catalogues. LOL.
Posted by Isabelle at 10:12 pm
Monday, February 7
Woo. Lazy day. Chinese New Year's around the corner. And for once my cousin isn't with me. Lol. Yeah. Play maple.
Posted by Isabelle at 4:19 pm
Thursday, February 3
Guess what, I'm having a guy sitting on my lap now. Lol. Funny huh? Ya, my 5-year-old cousin whom I've never met until today when my sixth uncle came over. Hehe. So I'm having a small big guy on my lap. Man, he's heavy. But he's cute, so I'm not complaining. Hehe. He's gonna stay here for the next 2 weeks, so I'm gonna get pictures of him to post up here. Eh, shuai ge lai de, cannot miss the chance to take photos. Hehe. Everyone's coming back for CNY, so crowded and so fun. Woo.
Updates later.