Single Awareness Day

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!

Being single most of my lifetime means that Valentine's day is nothing special for me. I went through 1 Val's day with a guy, whom I dated for all the wrong reasons. That was the only time I 'celebrate' Val's day not alone.

Val's day is celebrated with roses, chocolates, romantic dinners, yadayadayada. Or so they say. I once used to give out chocolates to my close friends and my crushes for Val's day, but then I got tired of it. Well first, I think it's just a waste of money :P, second I just don't see the point in celebrating love only on this one day of the 365/366 days a year!

But this night, me and my friends did something a bit special. At first we wanted to watch Jumper. But then we figured that the cinema will be packed with people celebrating Val's day, so we put the idea behind. Just 2 days ago me and my classmates agreed to have a "singles only" dinner at my place.

The 6 of us singletons had a lovely steamboat dinner this evening. And I have to say this is the best Valentine's day I've ever experienced! Here's a pic of my friends doing the steamboat

Left to right - Roey, Dexter, Riccardo, Po Yoke and Trixie

Gong Xi Fa Chai

Heya! It's been *quite a while* since the last entry! So how's everybody doing? Alright?

First and foremost, I'd like to greet you all (the ones who are celebrating, of course) a VERY HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

GONG XI FA CHAIPicture © www.TravelaChina.com

So um, I'm in the middle of a week-long (1 week + 2 days actually) CNY break. I haven't done anything and haven't gone anywhere except for KLCC+Pavilion (last saturday, with fellow Indonesians Patricia and Bila), and Kajang. Yes. KAJANG. K-A-J-A-N-G. Why the hell did I go there, you may ask? Well yesterday I went there for a bit of grocery shopping in Tesco, and today I went looking for a dentist who can do crowning 'cause one of my molar teeth needs fixing up. And o yeah, forgot to mention! Mummy's here!!! *Yay*

So back to CNY. Half of me is Chinese, which I got from my mum (hell yeah, sing the song people! I got it from my mama! *ROFL!*). Despite being part Chinese, I (read: my family) don't really celebrate CNY like others do. Well anyways, my family isn't into any festivities at all... not even Christmas! But we try to keep up with the holiday hype when we need to :P

My mum used to give me ang pau when I was younger. But she stopped when I was still in junior high, if I'm not mistaken. It's kinda unfair, 'cause most of my Chinese friends still get ang pau from their parents and senior relatives! Hey, even one of my non-Chinese friend gets it, just because her dad's got loads of Chinese connections/business partners/yadayadayada.

One time, my auntie gave me an ang pau. When my mum found out about it, she was a bit angry, because we're not used to receiving things from other people, our own relatives even. My mum was like "Why did you accept it?". I couldn't say anything. And before you know it, my mum told me "Ok, here's what you gonna do. You're gonna save the money you get in your bank account." I was like WHAT??? T_T

I don't know how it's gonna be this year. But I really doubt that my mum will give me any ang pau for CNY. But hey, she's here... So if she doesn't give me ang pau, I won't mind... I can still take her for shopping anyways (read: she's the one paying!). And that's exactly what I'm gonna do tomorrow! Me and my mum are going to Pavilion tomorrow. Since she's never been there, and since I'm in the mood for shopping, it's the perfect place to go!

More to come! Ciao!