CNY events

Finally after the past 1 week of holiday to celebrate CNY its back to work tomorrow. Now before my holiday ends im going to recap some of the happenings during the past 1 week. I was very eager for the start of the hoildays but at the same time very nervous. I need to fetch most of my girlfrends sisters back together. Im not too close to them so im just worried how will it turn out. So friday comes, can't wait to get back from work. I left work almost at 5.45pm had to go and get some dried meat(bakua/ yok kon). My girlfriend and I went to 1Utama to buy from beh chiang hiang we had to queue up for about 45mins and the dried meat cost a bomb. Alls good then we went home preparing for the trip home the next day.

Drove home at 9am we went to get some starbucks breakfast that cost a bomb again. Fetch her sisters and off we go. Reach Kampar(their hometown) somewhere around 12.30pm had lunch at her house and then toke them to tesco for a little last minute shopping. Guess what, i met my buddies(Justin Ravin and Aaron Ong) in tesco they are doing some Digi event. We chat for quite a while then i send my girlfriend and her brother and sisters home and off i leave for Ipoh. Reach ipoh in 1 hour and in need of rest. Having a gathering with my schoolmates later that nite. At the gathering i met up with alot of long lost friend chat till after 12am. We had it at Oldtown coffee 1t time i have been there thought. Till then i havn't seen my mum kinda miss her.

Sunday was very busy, have to take my mum around and then go to my cousins house for reunion dinner. I can't wait for the meal especially salted vege with duck soup that my grandmother use to make. It tasted really good but have to wait till next year for more of it. 1st day of chinese new year is the same as always. A few family visiting and ang pau collecting. The 2nd day of CNY i thought that i can visit some of my friends but after lunch i receive a bad news. My uncle from the states has just past away in Penang. My mum and i had to go down to penang my 1st time driving up north. i was suppose to go to penang on thursday with my mum and girlfriend to visit my uncles and aunty. Bad start to the Ox year.

My cousins come down from the states and i have to go fetch them at the penang airport. The worst thing is i have to drive my uncle's Unser and driving on penang road for the 1st time. Thursday was the day my uncle's body being taken from the mortuary to a church. That day i was at the church the whole nite with my cousins. The next day my uncles body is being cremated. This few days have been the hardest, my cousin sister toke this the hardest. She was very close to her father my uncle. Couple with the lost of my uncle, we had a new addition to the family. My other cousin sister living in singapore gave birth to a baby gal on the 22th. We can't visit each other though for the time being. Chinese traditions, death can't meet with celebrations. I manage to chat alot with my cousins from america, i found myself not having much problems understand their english, lucky me. 

Yesterday i started on my marathon drive back to KL, leave my aunty's at 8.30 reach ipoh around 10.30. Miss the exit to ipoh had to get out at simpang pulai. After a short rest off i go to Kampar to fetch my gf and had lunch there. Reach my home in PJ at aroudn 3pm plus was raining really heavily. 

Well thats just a short summary of what happens during the past week of CNY holidays. Running around between 3 states and experience alot of things. My uncle's passing reminds me of my dad's. Probably this event explains my anxiet during the week before. But this has make me realize how easy we will lose a close one and more of the way of life. So im going to treasure my close ones more and more from now on. 

Finally going to go back to working life again, hard after a long holiday but i'm going to work with a new resolution and a new aim. Work for the better future and survive this economy breakdown.