Happy Lunar New Year

I really wish I took my Mandarin classes more seriously. Haha.

Anyway, it was a pretty good Chinese New Year. My fourth one away from home. Do I miss celebrating it back home? Well, I don’t really know because most of the time, before I learnt to appreciate the social aspect of CNY, I was only thinking about the ang pows. Then came the driver’s license along with the independence to visit my own friends and the monetary importance of CNY took a back seat.

I would usually dread the first day of new years as I would have to spend the night at my grandparents place. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I have issues with them, but every trip to their place is plain boring. Firstly, there’s the language barrier. I cant speak hokkien for the life of me. Then there’s absolutely nothing to do there except watch TV. And what shows are on? Chinese ones. And I can never get a restful sleep at their place so I’ll usually wake up really groggy.

My Chinese New year here is a lot more different. More self-indulgent I believe. I organized a dinner for a bunch of seniors and juniors last night. They’re supposed to be part of my “family away from home”. How touching. The dinner was an 8-10 course meal and boy, it was good. We decided that it should become some sort of a tradition, but how can it be a tradition if it can only be done once? Everyone would have graduated by next year. So sad.

Then on Friday, there will be a UofM Malaysian Students Assoc CNY potluck. It should be a pretty grand occasion. Just hope everything works out well.

Happy New Year everyone....