I just got back from hometown so I decided to write a summary for the Chinese New Year for year 2008.
For years, Chinese New Year is nothing but a holiday for me. It is a time to reunite with family members and to get away from work. Normally it would be impossible for me to shutdown my brain completely because work and life issues would always bug me. But during Chinese New Years, with almost a week of break, I could shutdown and not think of anything.
This year, we took our reunion meal during lunch time because both my sisters are married so they have to go back to their husbands home for reunion dinner. After that, mom and I took dinner in a quiet setting and we talked about many things.
I don’t subscribe to any newspaper, but my family does. They subscribe to Sin Chew (the major Chinese newspaper in Malaysia) and some others. So it was time for me to flip through the news and see what is happening.
First of all, the political scene is a joke, and I don’t want to waste my time to talk about it. And then, everyday, and I mean EVERYDAY, there was some kind of news related to Edison, Cecilia Cheung, Bobo, Gillian sex/naked/nude pictures [I wrote about it here]. I mean, come on! Don’t these reporters have something better to do? After talking to a friend whom just came back from Hong Kong, she said Edison’s leaked pictures is the biggest news in Hong Kong right now, and all the major newspaper, news station, radio stations, tabloids, online forum and etc are all talking about this. I mean, it is nothing wrong to report about a case like this, but doing so for weeks is just too much. Besides, I don’t find those pictures any special.
After that, it was time for us to go to temple to do our “first joss stick“. I am a free thinker, and I don’t actually belong to the Buddhist group. But the Chinese tradition is like that and my mom wanted me to do it, so I did. It was actually mean that the joss stick that we provide to the All Mighty will be the first joss stick of the year.
Then I went off to meet up with friends for drinks and some gambling. It was a good time because first of all, I don’t get to see my hometown friends very often since I am always in KL area and I don’t go back that often. Secondly, it was serious drinking and we drank like a lot (7 of us drank 20 jugs of beer). Thirdly, I don’t gamble except during Chinese New Year so it’s time to brush up the skill and stuff.
Then on the first day of Chinese New Year, I stayed at home with my mom until late at night. At night I went out to meet with friends, drank a lot of alcoholic beverage, gambled a bit, and then all of us went to the cinema to watch Rambo 4. I will write a review for Rambo 4 when I got the time. But in short, if you got time to waste, go watch it. If not, go do something more constructive.
After the movie, we went to friend’s house to drink again and gamble. It was fun.
The 2nd day, it was time to go back to the OLD HOUSE (my grandparent’s house). It was so boring that I just sat there, did nothing, and smiled whenever someone was talking to me. I saw a lot of young cousins and stuff, and I was surprised to find that they were already working. I thought they were still schooling, but apparently one of them is 28, another one is 25, and I didn’t know! What a failure cousin I am. But I don’t give a heck, actually.
So on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year, I bored myself to death with those relatives and then I quickly ran back home to rest. At night, I went out again for drinking session and some gambling. We were just gathering, laughed, joked, and drank until we ran out of beer. Then we went out to the provision shop to buy more beer.
3rd day, it was Do Nothing Day again. My brother-in-law started a poker game and all the family members joined in. Everyone won a bit except my brother-in-law, but most importantl all of us got a good laugh. At night, I went out again to meet up with friends, and this time they took me to a new place.
This place is dark, music loud, and lots of beer available. When I first went it, I almost bang my head on the wall because it was really dark. And then, suddenly, out of no where, there were a bunch of chicks came to our table and one of them just sat on my lap. I was like “WTF???” and I looked at my friends. They didn’t see me because they were enjoying and focusing on groping the girls and stuff.
I sighed. I went to the wrong place. The girl sat on my lap kept groping me and stuff, and asked me if I wanna go “upstairs” for extra service. I told her NO, and she quickly stood up and asked for her tips. I gave her, and she ran to another table. Apparently I don’t worth her time so she decided to try other customers. But within 5 minutes, another girl jumped onto my lap again and I had to pay her tips. I was pissed. For those who know the kind of person I am, I don’t go to these places for paid sex. But my friends enjoyed it so I just waited for them there.
I don’t recall much about the 4th day or the 5th because I stayed at home most of the time, except at night I went to meet with friends and drank until pissed drunk.
I came back to KL on the 5th day afternoon. It was really hot and the traffic on the North-South highway was really bad. Here are some pictures and they can tell a better story than me…
A coach was in the gutter (the red one)
The traffic on the so-called Highway. Look closely at the line upfront…
Fluffy watching the traffic jam on the highway
Fluffy got tired of the traffic jam and started to enjoy the air-conditioner
The weather was really hot and Fluffy was very uncomfortable and tired
Summary: Drank a lot of alcoholic beverages. Ate a lot of food. Slept a lot. Weather was really hot.
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