The Lunar-cy of the Lunar New Year

It has begun. As much as I hate festivities and all the hoopla that comes with it, there is no escaping the insanity of the Lunar New Year since we are, after all, Chinese. It started a couple of weeks back with the purchase of a CNY-ish plant which I don't even know the name of, putting up obiang looking 福 paper cut-out decorative thingies (must be inverted, no less), getting crushed in the markets and, the part I hate most, spring cleaning.

Our refrigerator is filled to the brim with stuff since the Chinese are a superstitious lot (i.e. my mum-in-law) and believe that the house should be chock full of food as we pass into the New Year. And that is not even taking into the account the junk food we have sitting outside the refrigerator.

Is it just me getting old? Or is it just my overall nonchalance with life that I just can't seem to be bothered with such things anymore? Given the choice, I would just pass the holidays quietly without any visitations or parties whatsoever. But I suppose my family wouldn't have any of that.

As I am typing this, Penny and Vel are off with the MIL to the markets in search of the perfect fishballs for our steamboat tomorrow. I'm like, whatever.

恭喜发财，身体健康.

Ushering in the year of the Pig. Oink!

Time flies when you're having fun. The CNY holidays have come and gone. And we haven't even watched Ghost Rider yet. Now it's back to reality... Work.

Came back to a huge chunk of emails (mostly spam), a pile of CNY greeting cards in my 'In' tray, a jar of cookies from some company I don't know (and spelt my name as REENNIE) as well as a lovely trail of ants marching around (probably attempting to pick up all the junk food lying around).

So what have we done? Steamboat on the first day with a SHITLOAD of food (cold dish, veggies, abalone, cereal prawns) that we could barely finish. Grandma's house at night Blackjack-ing with my cousins and more food (lobsters! woo hoo!).

And the rest of the days we were just chilling. Mainly because we cancelled our HCMC trip (stupid birds!)

So there! One whole week of holidays gone! Now we can move on with our lives and look forward to, er, Christmas and our year end bonus (if any).

Wishing one and all a prosperous and healthy year of the pig.

P.S. : Pearl Harbour on TV... again! Free to air TV sucks! Fortunately I have cable. At least I get to watch re-runs of Spiderman 2 and Season 7 of CSI. Woo hoo!

Greetings earthlingsss...

Finally! This has been a long time coming! My procrastination has finally come to a grinding halt and what you see here is the end (pun intended) result... Not much, but it's a start. Now I can join the gazillion others who already have thier own fancy blogs!

And because I am a typical Singaporean and absolutely refuse to part with my hard earned money to pay for something I can get free, I decided to go with the free option and setup this cheapo blog. But this will have to suffice for now.

If you, like me, are voyueristic by nature and love to pry into other people's lives, feel free to browse through the (many) photos which I hope to put up soon. And you will soon come to realise that I, like many of you, are also narcissistic and love showing off my life, along with the many knick-knacks that come along with it...So have fun. Come back soon. Happy Lunar New Year. Don't ask me for ang paos.