CHINEEESE NEW YEAR!

HEy readers!

So these past few days have been amazing! Simply because it is the CHINESE NEW YEAR!! Since i AM a Chinese, i went around visiting relatives, gambling small amounts of money and also having loads of fun!

It started out with the CNY celebrations at my school. It was going to be the last cny celebration in which my batch of schoolmates would be experiencing because we will be graduating this year :(. Thus, with the help of a few people, managed to convince my classmates to put up a performance in celebration of our last year together!! So we ended up re-enacting the Chinese Zodiac story and i played the Goat, and i have to say "Maaaahhhh"-ing is quite a fun thing to do, i might just make a living out of it :D After which, we went for operation orange and gave oranges to the residents. THEN WE WENT FOR PHYSICS SPA PRACTICE HOORAY RIGHT?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Our physics teacher just HAD to hold us back for cny and i at first i was pissed but then the SPA she made us do wasn't that hard, in fact i pray that experiment will be the actual SPA -PRAYS VERY HARD-

After that i went to my maternal relative's house for eve celebration which was okay because i actually managed to catch up on my Allegiant book which i was damn bent on finishing, i am HOWEVER still not done with it.

The next day, i went back to the same place and played a little bit of space jam on the old PS1 which my cousin donated to my grandma ages ago and it really brought back memories of the days whereby i would go visit my grandmother every Sunday and do random stuff with my maternal cousins. (ie. playing pretend as digimon, playing games on the PS1, running around the park downstairs), all of which we kinda outgrew and now that i'm sec 4 i don't really have the time to go EVERY sunday :[[[
Then i went to my paternal relative's side which imo is the more fun one because i have more cousins there and we ALWAYS gamble during cny!! This year i sorta learnt how to play mahjong(which is a Tan family tradition that i as a grandson, have the duty to pass down) and yea i played mahjong with my cousins! We bet money of course and the moment my brother raised the stakes, i kept winning and even got a "zi muo" which = $$$$$$$$$!!! I also learnt a few card games such as "In-Between" which i later got my friends hooked onto as well haha. After gambling for about 7 hours, we went for a midnight movie!!! We were intending to watch a hong kong movie known as "From Vegas to Macau" BUT my cousin accidentally booked the 12.30 PM tickets instead of the 12.30 AM tickets so we didn't actually managed to watch it. After arguing with the manager for about 5 mins regarding the poor listening skills the counter-person had when my cousin booked the tickets(my cousin kept stressing on the 'LATEST 12 O'CLOCK SHOW' aka midnight), the manager conceded defeat and offered A FULL FREAKING REFUND(CAN I GET A HELLA YEAAAAAA) and gave us FREE(YEAAAAA) tickets to watch I, Frankenstein which was showing about 20 mins later. I have to praise my cousin Julyn, because she actually convinced me that she was genuinely pissed at the ticker-incident but in reality she just wanted the refund hahahaha.
The entire theater was empty except for a few couples so my brother took the opportunity to take a photo in an empty theater :P The movie was awesome because it had a really fantasy-religious-theme behind it with the Gargoyles VS Demon thing, which i absolutely love in anything and everything. After that we took a few photos around the empty mall and we were driven home hehe.

The next day i went visiting other relatives which is kinda awkward because they are in the same generation as my grandparents, so i really just smiled and waved the whole time and watched television. Cool thing is the ang paos though, old people always tend to be more generous with their ang paos which is always a very sweet plus!!

Sunday was supposed to be my slack day but i was invited to a steamboat dinner at my friends house. No regrets though. I did however, forgot to bring oranges to give to her parents which was kinda embarrassing because everybody else did bring some except for me and Jonathan.Dang it!! Her parents were really nice, her father even went out to get us more salmon. What was really interesting though was her pet parrot which i swear i am obsessed. He kept pecking at my finger and whenever i put my hand near it to let it walk onto my hand, it would just bow its head which indicated that it wanted to be caressed by me . Talk about a greedy parrot DDD: It was still adorable la, i really want a pet now ahhhh. Also i got my friends hooked onto playing a gambling card game known as "In-Between" and we played that with peanuts for like 40 minutes straight and Wei Jie was a greedy-ass trying to bend the rules ahhaha but i still had more peanuts in the end hoho ^/^.

Today i went to play frisbee with a couple of friends and i have to say it was incredibly fun, even though my right thumb became swollen in the end( :[ ) i still learnt quite a bit and improved my skills muahhaha.

In short, Chinese New Year was the time i had fun and spent time with friends and family! I hope everyone had fun this 5-day holiday because Science SPAs are coming up in the following weeks :[ GOOD LUCK EVERYBODEE!