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Happy New Year! New Year resolutions are one way to look forward to having a better year than last.
Did anyone noticed how it rains HEAVILY almost everyday at almost the same time for some days? Like two weeks earlier the rain started about 4pm, then it shifted to about 5pm, then moved to about 6, 7-ish, causing KL traffic to be at a massive standstill.
Now… this week it rained as it pleased. I recently have a little pond in my garden (thanks to JC! – will upload pictures soon) and then I got to live in fear that my little guppies will commit suicide since the water level is so high everyday.
And it gets so cold in the office with full air-con blasting away.
Notwithstanding is the temperamental flash floods due to poor drainage system…
Suddenly, I miss JC and I want to go home and play games NOW NOW NOW!
This year must be one of the most boring Chinese New Year I’ve ever had. Apart from the lack of enthusiasm felt from all corners of Malaysia (my friends in Seremban, Penang, Muar, Perak, KL as well as Singapore all told me the same thing), it is my definite bad fortune that I fell SICK during this most joyous time of the whole year.
I was so looking forward to having a drunk fest during CNY… Alas, it was not to be. As it is, the famous B151 (all the way from Australia) is still sitting patiently on my dresser waiting for me to finish it up. Sad, very sad.
Anyway, the MAJOR achievements I did this CNY were:
1) got my bro to wear the SAME t-shirts (in M, L, XL respectively from oldest to youngest, from left to right) and manage to bully them in taking a picture!
Note: All their smiles were FORCED. By me of course.
PS: Don’t you think they look 0h-so-adorable especially with the golden rat?
2) manage to corner all my uncles, aunties, cousins and my delicate grandma to take pictures! After several snaps from my camera I suddenly found everyone whipping out their cameras to do the same… *sweat*
Note: My beautiful girl cousins. All younger. No, they are not available!
…is almost always a merry thing as it signifies the death of the lousy previous year and the birth of a brand new year:
a new outlook + a new approach + a new resolution + a new job + a new relationship = a refresh hope.
It has been a crazy crazy 2 months for me flying to 3 different destinations, moving house and changing job. I only have small windows of time to do everything! During these couple of weeks I believe I have lost track of my nationality (am I Malaysian or Thai?), my orientation around the globe (not that I have much directional sense to begin with), my preferred language (I now speak a “rojak” of English, Mandarin, Hokkien, Canto, and have thrown in some cannot-make-it Aussie slang for good measure), and my preferences for food (is it yesterday or last week that I have Viet food?).
Well, at least I still remember my name.
Why did I ever think that jet setting around the globe was a fun thing? With my growing age and reduced metabolism rate I will be most disinclined to take on another back-to-back travelling plan again unless forced to at gun point.
Nevertheless, I have plenty of fun everywhere I go! See, it’s not really about the location and it’s all about the company. Nothing beats the experience of exploring different culture and food with the pleasant company of family and friends and being able to get away when anyone do any stupid stuff (somebody take the thai-boys-show scene off my head please!).
Having said that, I miss everything in KL. I have been away for too long. I yearn to go home…
sh!t, I am really getting older, ain’t I?
~writing to you in a freezing hotel room from a borrowed notebook with a stolen wireless connection in the land of lionfish: Singapore~
Happy New Year folks! I for one am particularly glad to send 2007 away and welcome 2008 with a big warm hug! …All because according to Lillian Too I will have ample Peach Blossom luck and super duper good career luck this year.
Despite needing to spray artificial snow on unsuspecting victims; accidentally ate some artificial snow myself; walking on wet, dirty floor which ruined my new red shoes; squeezing through the throngs of packed human (almost like sardines in a can) who stepped on my hexed toe; soaked under drizzling rain which spoiled my new top; got star strucked by cool Chinese Singers like Justin, I had HEAPS of fun at Bukit Bintang celebrating the all brand new 2008!
I wanted to write more but my credit is running out so here’s to wishing you all a healthy, happy and fulfilled year 2008!
~~ from Chiang Mai ~~
