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CNY EVE
This is so annoying. I absolutely DETEST Chinese New Year. I DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT like my relatives one bit at all. Reunion dinners to me, are just another ploy to jack up the prices of stuff like fish and other seafood.
My family is unique. We have our reunion dinner at home, just the four of us. Of course, my dad feels the need to be gregarious and invite my bachelor of an uncle and divorced aunt to my house for more “festive spirit”.
My aunt has enough dignity to not come and assume the façade that she has someone to spend the holidays with. She probably does, seeing as how she is with this rich($$$) Caucasian who paid for her breast augmentation.
My uncle on the other hand, shamelessly comes and is intelligent enough to devour the most expensive dishes laid out-the fish and the abalone. It’s stupid to think that he has no one to spend this holiday with because he bought himself a Vietnam bride. Since when has she mysteriously disappeared? I’ve never even met the woman, he’s probably too ashamed or something, which raises the question why he even bought her in the first place. He should have done us all a favour and spare the poor girl, bloody freeloader. I really pity her, I do. Oh well, life sucks for the majority of us. So much for not airing one's dirty laundry in public, whatever.
Then there’s the whole deal with visiting relatives on the first day of Chinese New Year. I guess the only good thing about this is that I get to collect red packets and I get an excuse to buy new clothes. But honestly, visiting gets boring after a while and yet my dad refuses to leave even when my brother and I have facial expressions screaming that we want to go home.
And even partaking in the goodies that comes along with this holiday gets disrupted by my parents. I have to prevent myself from getting sick and fat, even though we only get to eat stuff like this once a year.
Gambling gets boring, I don’t even know if I will gamble this year. In the past years, it was the only thing that kept me occupied and entertained. Haha, in fact it is probably the activity that bonds everyone together. Haha, how sad is that.
Grr, my mom is forcing me to don something bright, cheery and positively fluorescent. I was planning on wearing grey, haha. I wear whatever suits my mood, so wearing RED or YELLOW is going to be hard. However, I shall avoid any drama that may unfold if I walk down the stairs in grey. Hence, it will be a horrendously bright coloured tee for me tomorrow.
In an attempt to be less of a pessimist, I shall add another thing to the list of what’s good about Chinese New Year. It gives us students a nice long break. But if you really think about it, having to wake up really early so that the maid can pack the room before you leave the house or before the guest arrives, having to force yourself to be painfully cheery throughout the day and having to entertain guests that you wish you could slap isn’t much of a break.
Either way, I’m sure I will be able to survive this Chinese New Year. Than it’s off to face cross country-haha!!!
farcical-rants - 11:00 pm - Saturday, February 17, 2007
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