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