Its celebration time c'mon

It's that time of the year again.

It's the eve of the Chinese new year and I would be looking forward tonight's reunion dinner. This year it's going to be different, for the first time we are going to have it at my grandfather's place and that means a new dinner menu!

An aunt, uncle and 2 cousins would be overseas during this CNY. So got to keep the men fed as no one will be cooking for them that is if my mom get the prized fish for the laksa, it's really really absolutely the embodiment of a home cooked meal (that means it taste good without the MSG).

CNY is KL for me is a quite affair. No traffic jams, no idiots on the road, no pesky humans blocking my path, no queuing, etc. I can get to anywhere in KL in 15 minutes for less. Absolute charming of a city to drive in!

The weather during CNY here gets pretty hot, with clear skies and blazing hot sun. Compounded by the bright coloured clothes people wear you'll probably fell hotter than it actually is. Oh and we just love to visit our relatives some we see just once a year or 2 if there is a wedding or went someone has reached its expiry date.

We normally pick a day and go house hoping. During these visit the children like me (you're not an adult till you're married) would keep ourselves assumed with TV, food and gambling while the adults chatter away. It can get so loudly that I turn the TV volume just a little louder than their and they and the tv would be having a mini competition who can bring the roof down.

When the celebration is over on 15th day of CNY or Chap Goh Mei. I would be counting this year's collections after the gambling and alcohol. The money generally gets lesser when you get older for some reason and when you get married you start to lose as you start giving. (and during this time probably some girls are trying to get hitch by throwing oranges into the Klang river). Sigh.... as to all good time an end has to come.

Happy New Year again.

I saying with all the joy in the world, like I said before not everybody gets to celebrated 2 new years or more in a year (you have to be Chinese or Malaysian).

Spectacles??

An old classmate from my primary called up on Monday and decided that we should have a drink together with some old classmates. Here the thing I found strange, he still has my number after 13 years of no contact.

So there were 5 of us sitting at Starbucks at Times Square having a conversation amidst the rumbling of renovation going that night.

Here the thing, we haven’t met for 13 years, we weren’t in the same clique so I curious; what's there to talk about? During my days in primary school I have to few close friend but lost touch over the years.

So we and began cheerfully with the ‘how are-yous’ and ‘long time you see’. It was down hill from there. The conversation deteriorated into the use-to-be-bad-boy-of-class self promotion of his life and the ups and downs as a salesman of anything to do with eyewear.

Here I thinking at least by the end to the night we would at least know what went on after our lives after primary school, reminisce about the good old days. But the truth is I can’t remember much about those days. I have long forgotten and the only memories I have are a few photographs. Except the few good and embarrassing moments, those you can’t really forget even if you tried.

So I am thinking what the point, we have nothing in common and yet I went. I went hoping we could find that we still had some common other than being in the same class together. Turns out we don’t have then and we still don’t have it now. At the end of the night I wonder how many meaningless friendships and award conversation do I really need. C’mon then let not waste any of our precious time, not even for old times sake.

Well some good did come out of it. Now I know who to call to get a discount for my new pair of spectacles when I need one.