Post-CNY

I got accepted in the school’s Editorial Board!! Woooo-hoooo!!!

  It’s been a while since I wrote anything in this little blog of mine. Well, let’s see what that I have been up to all this while. Hmm…for starters, I went back to two places during the Chinese New Year this year. I went back to Terengganu and my favourite place on Earth…Penang!

  Lolx, I know you’ve probably heard of this like a thousand times and all that but Penang absolutely, totally ROCKS!! It is like one of those places all of us Malaysians must be proud of because the people there are so diverse and yet they are so alike. Well, you might not agree with me. But then again, my point of view is that of a partial-Penangite( I am after all a Kuala Lumpurian).

  Anyway, the Chinese New Year celebration this year had been pretty surreal for me. This is the first time that I celebrated the CNY at two of my hometowns. And do you know what that means? More ang pows!! Lolx. No lar, the real reason that make this celebration more special for me is that I was able to celebrate the Chinese New Year with both sides of the family. To me, family is really important. You have to preserve the family ties (especially with your extended family) so that there will always be this feeling of familiarity among you and your family members and instead of talking about the weather with your cousins, you will be talking about the latest show on the silver screen or the last episode of Grey’s Anatomy. So here is a message for you guys: Don’t be strangers with your family members.

  I was at Terengganu from CNY’s eve to the 2nd day of CNY. My family and I left Terengganu for Penang on the 2nd day of CNY. While back at Penang, I had this amazing opportunity to observe the Chinese traditions during the CNY. Like on the 5th day of CNY during the night, my mom, my bro and I followed my aunt to the Snake Temple and prayed. It was really crowded that night, thought not as crowded as the year before. It was really fun. There were Chinese opera, God of Prosperity and err…some snakes. There was just this small little snake at one of the section of the temple. My mom told me that the temple was once full of snakes and that you have to watch your steps so as not to step on the snakes that are slithering on the stone floor of the temple. It’s just that due to the modernization of the city, fewer and fewer snakes had visited the temple. Or was it the presence of some tourists who bugs the snake? Hmmm….

  My grandmother’s birthday was also celebrated during the Chinese New Year celebration. Her birthday was celebrated on the 7th day of CNY. The whole family went out for an eight course meal at one of those Chinese restaurants at the heart of Georgetown. During her birthday celebration, my grandma will lay out ang pows on the table for her sons, daughters, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, grandchildren and great grandchildren (that would be Joel). And among these ang pows, there is one “special” ang pow which contains a greater amount of money. Last time when I was a kid, my cousins and I said that who ever who gets that “special” ang pow will be luckier. Lolx.

  Times had surely passed by. I am now in my teenage years and most of my cousins had grown up and went to further their studies at the groves of acadame. Well…all good things must come to an end. I am not implying that things are not good anymore now. But when you’re a child, your greatest worry is to catch Barney or Power Rangers on television. Things are so simple back then. Sometimes I do wish that I was in that phase of time, when things are a little less complicated. Well welcome to the life of a bookaholic teenager. Where my passion for life is good fiction and my goal is to keep on striving to live. Life is short. Live your life to the fullest!! And while you’re doing it, enjoy!!!

  Now, fast forward to the present. Today is the second day of photo shoot for the school magazine. Anyway, I got to know that I had been accepted in the school’s Ed-Board and the feeling is just so elevating. Well, the news is just enough to blow away the dark cloud of what that happened later on in school. It was like I was given a shot of morphine and that “high” just makes me immune to some stuff that happened later on. I’d rather not go in detail about those “stuffs” though. Some stuff in life is better kept in the dark. After all blissful ignorance could save you from certain things in life. But then again, being a Science student, to be kept in blissful ignorance is like walking across the road full of cars with your eyes blind folded.

  Anyway, I don’t want to bother you with my problems. I’m going to stop here right now. Got to get back to my Physics project. I just can’t resist this guilty pleasure to write in this blog. Till then, enjoy life along the way!!

  Don’t let the fact of not being invited gives you the sheer disappointment of being uninvited. Anyway the difference between invited and uninvited is just the syllable of ‘UN’. Support United Nation’s cause and "Say No To War!". I am delirious. Ignore me.