Happy Horsesome Year!
February 05, 2014
It's my favourite festival of all year!
It's CNY!
Seriously, how can one do not like celebrating lunar new year, when all (singles/ kids) have to do is to EAT, and eat, and more eating, exchange a few auspicious greetings to the adults and viola!!! ANGPOWS MANY MANY. Plus, you get to wear all the new clothes, shoes, accessories, & whatnot. It's always a fantastic season of all, like every single one of us will gather for a few days, enjoy meals together at the table, joke around, play around, and also, meeting the favourite cousins!!
This year, we finally get to celebrate it at our new house!
There's a marina at our estate, since it's located at the sea, so there's this dock to berth boats and 1st day of CNY was pretty mundane. We had nothing to do, and I even took a nap after breakfast, in the afternoon. We didn't even bother to bathe and change into our CNY clothes until we heard someone came to our house for a visit. It was my neighbour next door actually, they came back from somewhere and saw our cars are at home so paid a visit before going back to their house.
It was then, the Lim siblings (my two brothers & I) decided to bathe and change while waiting for dinner at relative's house. We were all dressed up but were stuck at home, doing nothing. I watched the encore telecast of Mediacorp CNY Countdown in my room though hahaha and my brothers never failed to infiltrate my room... So anyhow, my dad saw us all dressed up and the first thing he asked was,"why are you all dressed up? We are at home now leh..." HAHAHAHAHA
I DIDN'T WANT TO PUT MY CNY DAY 1 OOTD TO WASTE.
I urged my brothers to dress up as well and so, we could take photos together. I wanted to take a few decent family portraits but my mom went out to my relative's house, not sure what she did there, I guess to show some face and interact with them since my dad doesn't really talk to his siblings a.k.a my uncles and aunts. Without my mom, obviously, we couldn't take a family portrait together.
What we did next was surprisingly hilarious.
Not sure what my brothers were thinking, probably trying to get this 'Running Man' style outfit. Both of them were fighting over with their new pairs of shoes, one with his Nike, another one with his NB. They were trying hard, very hard, to pull off the look you always see in the RM shows. The casts would always be in berms/jeans, with running shoes.Yes, that's how my brothers were trying to dig that look but LOLOL still far from it.
Here's my brothers, both trying to wear the shoes:
My big bro really has the brightest and loudest shoes of all, with his stripes patterned socks.
We then headed out to the broadwalk and took some pictures, using my Nikon J1, self-timer, and a tripod. Once and for all, none of my brothers can take decent photos... All my solo pics, asking them to help me with it, turned out to be out-of-focus. Le sigh, but I took rather good photos of them man.
HAHA 2nd brother.
I was pestering either of my brothers to pose at that spot since it really gives out a FEEL.
Here's a few pictures we took at the marina:
TRYING TO BE FUNNY
I asked him to pose & in the count of 3, he suddenly possessed the soul of Charlie Choplin.
The only missing item was, an umbrella.
As they grow older, they started to resemble each other.
Round and round.
Oh hi, here's the Lim Siblings.
I know, this photo looks awkward with the weird poses.
It was taken to create this:
Hahaha, having to see so many photos on the Internet with people mimicking the past photos for a present one, we decided to give it a try as well. #closeenough
Some commented, EVEN THE POLE GREW BIGGER LOLOLOL didn't realize until people commented it hahahahaha.
Here's me with my CNY dress from HollyHoque!
Should have gotten the S size for it, it fitted me good enough for M size but it's kinda loose at the waist... I have to rectify it with a belt, otherwise, I'd look really weird.
So, CNY day 1 was pretty boring.
In fact, CNY gets more and more boring each year, for instance, house visits get lesser, more relatives are not going back to maternal grandma's house as well (for day 2). This year, we only managed to see my mom's siblings, the 3 aunts and 2 uncles... We see them quite often in a year so, it's nothing really special about seeing them again during CNY, but we get to play with their kids so not too bad.
A sad but true fact, we are not really close with paternal relatives and cousins also, pretty much explains why first day of CNY was and would always be kinda boring... My dad doesn't even talk much to his siblings, and most of them are located in KL, so we don't see them so often at all, probably only during CNY and on the tombsweeping day whereby we need to gather and offer our prayers to our ancestors. We would eat at my relative's house for reunion dinner... and then, my family will sit together, outside, rotting away. That's my CNY eve for you lolol standard reunion dinner with nothing much.
As for the 1st day of CNY, like I said, we slacked at home... My dad was asking my mom to get the relatives gather at my house instead, at least there would be much more space and seats for everyone, also can serve as an open house since most of them haven't really visited our new house before. Later in the afternoon, my mom came back w the relatives and they toured the house, the estate, while my brothers and I decided to take pictures hahahaha.
The day ended... After some photographs taking session and we went over to relative's house for dinner. THAT'S ABOUT IT hahaha.
AND REALLY, the Chinese in Malaysia seem to be celebrating CNY for whole 15 days man, I woke up early this morning to fix my dimsum cravings but the shop is only resuming on the 13th Feb, like seriously?!?!?! I told my mom to go for the famous kway chap near Pelangi Plaza, and WAHLAO, like what my mom said, it should be closed for CNY also. Damn, she was RIGHT. In the end, we settled at the dimsum shop opposite (we used to patronize it every morning at 5am when my mom had to send us to custom during school days) and god, it was filled with a lot of customers as well.
To my horror, many of them were still in their CNY clothes, ready to start their house visiting after breakfast. IT WAS LIKE THE CHILDREN, THE PARENTS, EVERYONE IN MALAYSIA DOES NOT HAVE TO WORK WHEN IT'S ALREADY THE 6TH DAY OF CNY?!?!?! How is that possible?!?! My mom said most of them should be taking leaves for CNY, but wahlao eh, the 6th day already... Erm, talking about this, I just realized my 2nd brother hasn't start working also lolol.
IT'S THIS THE PERKS OF WORKING IN MALAYSIA???????
& having to wake up early for breakfast...
I was so tired, I napped in the afternoon until a phone call came and talked to me about job interview. Maybe, I should get back to the events industry...
I was so tired... That I knew the part-time maids came but I just continued sleeping, even when they vacuum the room. I am a light sleeper and if I could sleep through the noise, I am probably dead tired.
Xx
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