happy chinese new year!!!

This is my first chinese new year away from home and family,because of my studies. Being away from home is hard for me. I'm generally a home person. I love being at home with my family and especially on chinese new year where i get to meet my uncles, aunties and of course bully my little cutie cousins. Not to mention the amount of money i get from angpau!

I spend alternative new years with my mother and father's family. And is been awhile i spend it with my mother's family because this year i suppose to visit my mother's family. Is really sad, not being able to eat yee sang and play chor dai ti...Other than the none important things i miss most is my auntie famous braised pork. I seldom get to see her and the only time i get to see her, i'm stuck here in aberdeen, Scotland which is 20 hours away by flight.

Well i guess i just have to make most of the situation. So i cooked bak kut teh(lucky i brought some from home) and got the guys over to eat with me. A different kind of reunion party, not with family but with the friends that are on the same boat with me. Most important of all their like my cooking!! Haha, first cooking bak kut teh and it taste good!! I'm just plain talented in cooking, hahaha!! self praising..so big headed! =P

However not everyone is here, wendy, pak khuen and kok beng went to Glasgow this morning to greet Pak Khuen's parents tomorrow to pick up the some of their luggage. So lucky of them because Glasgow have Chinatown with at least have some feel of Chinese New Year.

I'm surpised by a friend who is in kl yet refuses to back to his hometown to celebrate with his family. The reason he gave me was he hate arguing with his brother who work in Singapore and always boast how well is he doing. He told me his brother bought some abalone home and was critised about him not bringing anything home and etc etc. I feel this is very sad for him and his family. The New Year suppose to mean family togetherness and not about your ability to show off what pricey food u brought home.

Everything about Chinese New Year or other celebration are so commercialised nowadays. What ever happened to the good old days where neighbour knock on your door and invite to their celebration??