CNY wasn't as exciting as this year...maybe it was the lack of fireworks...

Drove back in on Saturday...and arrived late so upon arrival it was mostly just going to sleep.

CNY Eve - Next morning we woke up and had 'tuan yuan fan' in the afternoon as my cousins wouldn't be in that night. We then went out shopping, since I still had some stuff left to shop for from Christmas...only managed to get a belt for myself and baby...still lacking my denim shorts though. Everything started closing early so we decided to head back home. Once hoe it was dinner time, but somehow we didn't have any...I didn't really get it. But I was like sneaking tid bits here and there for my blackhole of a stomach. So we all stayed up to 'shou ye', basically a little tradition for staying up so your parents would have a long life later in. Was rather boring since I didn't bring back my laptop and my parents and aunts were watching some stuff I didn't understand, so I spent most of it lying on the sofa staring at the ceiling trying not to fall asleep for about an hour. Until the point I remembered that my dad brought his laptop down too. if you're wondering about the internet...well it's a 56kbps dial-up...so it's not exactly very calming to use in this day and age.

CNY day 1 - Started the drive down to Sepang to visit my dad's side. As usual when we reached there, there weren't many people. Just 2 of my aunts making ngoh hiang, so we just hung around and played with my uncle's ipod touch listening to his music. People started streaming in and we started the usual get together lunch stuff. As people were done eating more people were still coming in, so it was like waves of people streaming in and the flurry of 'gong xi fa cai' and 'gong he fat choi' going around. Made a trip back to my grandma's house to rest and recharge.

Went back again for dinner and the usual stuff happened again. This time there were more people so black jack started and went till late, after which we played with fireworks. Fireworks is somewhat the only perk we come all the way back for...but this time it was rather pathetic. One of my relatives bought these sticks that looked like sparklers, which looked rather evil, but once lighted that all changed. It was just a bunch of 'anticlimax' sticks. It would make the usual 'teeeeeeeeeeeeeew' firecracker sound, which would stop abruptly and spurts of fire would shoot out. It was like 'yay!!'....'oh- _-.........'

CNY day 2 - Went back to the house again for bf and chatting. My mum was like comparing stories with my aunt about their maids. We then drove off to meet up my aunt's and cousins on my mum's side at a restaurant for lunch again. The only thing I remember from it was the 'buddha jumps over the wall' dish. I have this THING for soups.

After which the long drive back to Singapore begins. Everything was fine...until we decided to take the 2nd link....malaysia was good....singapore was just horrendous...I don't even think horrendous sums it up. The queue was so backed up you don't even see the checkpoint. If you remember before the checkpoint there's like a hill the car has to climb before you actually see the checkpoint? We were way beyond that. 4 lanes, 3 for cars 1 one for buses, became 5 lanes and for a moment every lane didn't move for like 5-10mins. people started coming out of their cars...people got out to smoke and all that until peope started the horn. In total we were there for 2 and half hours.

Got home at about 10, unpacked and then slept.

Luckily i didn't have school the next day.