Happy Chinese New Year! The one festival i love and dread the most is here upon us again.

Don't get me wrong. I love cheena new year. i really do. It's the time money comes flying into my hands and adel is rich again! I love celebrating my chinese roots and the pineapply tarts. Ain't no braces gonna stop me from eatin those!

What i do not like about cheena new year is

a) the shopping. I never get a nice top when i want it. And true to tradition, vivo, town and bugis really failed in producing a nice top. What i was really scared of was wearing a top and coming face to face with a relative who wore the same thing! If my auntie wears the same top, it will be Mortification 101.

b) The family politics. enough said.

c) This year, i managed to get a peek into what pei and the rest were talkin about. The "boyfriend" question. I mean with all my cousin and sister older than me, i'm kinda lucky to evade tt question for years but it started this year. It came to a point where i debated answering "oh.. i had a boyfriend and then he dumped me because he was actually a girl in a boy's body and he went for an operation to change that mistake and i couldnt take it. But i needed him to stay by my side, so i pretended to be pregnant but then he found out tt i was using a soccer ball to be my bump. AND so he dumped me. Every night i cry myself to sleep and i drink bat's blood because they said tt would help bring him back. I sawed his name into my tummy. oh dear me. now you have gone and reminded me of him, *cue to burst into tears and search for a knife while screaming madly*

and THEN! it came to me! why not say i have one? and collect the ang paos on his behalf? heh heh heh! Europe doesn't seem so out-of reach after all!

Seriously though, i calculated how much i would need to save in order to go Europe next year.. And oh wells, i just have to save $400 every month from now on. It's just twice my allowance. Sigh.

on the up side! Asilah, Alvinna, Sherlin, Claryce and Hidayah would consider going Australia for graduation! We could rent a car and take a road trip! It would be seriously kick ass if we did tt!

Speaking of awesome people, we had the cheena new year visiting on 23rd feb, a date carefully marked down in many organisers. I won't put many pictures up coz my face vaguely resembles a round kuali in many. But it was really fun. Sherlin has the 2nd most adorable dog ever (dash, of course, ranks first) and a really really cool place for (to quote alvinna) "potential slumber parties". Claryce's place is my mother's idea of heaven. I got to see pics of Hidayah, Alvinna, Asilah and Claryce during their JC days! *smirks* im really glad i burned mine. Only ting, pei and neela shall remember my days of centre parting. *SHUDDER* how did i step out of the house then? and my mother let me go out!

Anyhoos! I'm thinkin we could take a roadtrip because on 23rd feb, we managed to squeeze 5 people into the backseat of Sherlin's car. Asilah wanted to take a pic but what she managed to get was this:

Herself. plus two of sherlin's fingers. plus alvinna's bag

Amidst much laughter, we did get a pic in the end. If you want to see it, you would have to go alvinna's blog to see it. Here's one more pic of the visiting gang (minus sherlin coz she had an operation the day before and didn't wanna take photos).