Tuesday, February 08, 2005 . 9:30 AM
* Let's talk abt Chinese New Yr baby...*
ISit called Lunar New yr??Let's juz call it CNY lar. Sometimes i feel like i'm half a BANANA altho i've stayed in a chinese dominant country most of my life, and even in Sarawak, the chinese was still pretty dominant. Back in Kuching, as far as i could rem (rem i was only there till i was 7 yrs old) CNY was the most happening thing for the whole yr. My mom would dress me up in nice pretty fluffy dress, which i remembrered also gave mi the ultimate itch, but every year i would still look forward to wearing fluffy dress that would irritate my skin to hell. She would tie my hair meticulously like she always does anyway, into many sophisticated styles and included lots of ribbons sometimes. One yr i remembered i got to wear a cheongsam which i think wasn't really my favorite cos i still prefer irritating fluffy dresses...Likewise, my brother and my close cousins get to dress up like it's some modelling show, to parade our most fashionable dresses and hairstyles amongst the relatives.
In those days most of my aunties were still unmarried and there were only my family and hsiaolin's with kids...so it was me, her , my bro and then her younger sis. So 4 of us. And 3 lovely dogs. And whole damn batch of aunties. Years later, Hsiaolin's younger bro would come along but that was like much much later.
So every CNY was a parade of nice clothes, for our parents to compare about each other, to haolian, and relatives to commend how BIG we are aldy, and for us kids to have pure damn fun. And lots of hongbaos hee. CNY to us kids meant lots and lots of food and fun. We would play silly games, play each other's hair,chase the dogs. The highlight being the lighting of the paozhu. Pardon me ah...I have no idea wat that thing is called. Cos singapore kinda wiped out my memories of that thingie..PAOZHU lar. The line of paozhu that will go off when lighted, bloody lot of noise. Aint really my favorite i remember. The fireworks were more fantastic. But i have little recollection abt them as well. All i could remember was mayb 6-7 yrs ago hsiaolin and i were back in kuching and we put our fireworks.
ok no time to finish my story..gtg !! tata!!
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