Only Fools Rush In (A Centennial of Soliloquies)

The Soliloquy of a Book@holic was conceived back in 2005 and three year later on I’ve come to my hundredth post. Yup…it is a centennial of soliloquies for me. Basically, a centennial of everything that goes on a lengthy censorship board and a thousand references to Oxford’s Advanced Learners. Hahah. And also not to forget a centennial of boring references to all the whatevers that have been going on in my life, from the silly happy post of making the cut to the school’s mag ed-board to the unnecessary melodrama and lyrical prose of my denials.

Anyway, I won’t spend the whole length of this blog talking of the boring history of this blog. So…lets move on. I’m a little lazy to write for the moment, so I’ll post some reunion pics from CNY instead.

This was the reunion table where we had steamboat and tempanyaki.

With Mom, aunt and cousin.

My aunts getting on with the next round of serving.

All of us cousins had a photo shoot with ah ma.

Quite a group huh?

We arrived at Penang four hours before dinner. Therefore after dinner I went up and hit the sheets and doze off quickly to Pulau Song-Song. Hahah…would have followed my aunts and cousin for prayers at the temples but apparently I was un-wakeable (or so say one of my aunts "bei khun cheh ah)

On the first day of CNY, we went for our usual rounds of visiting relatives (and collecting ang pows!). Later in the evening, we went to Koh Tsu Koon’s open house.

I think he is somewhere in the midst of the crowd…or at least I think he is. Is he?

Later on in the night, my cousins (B.K.,J.A.,J.A.,W.A) along with my bro and I went to GCS Gurney Plaza to watch a movie. I entered the cinema expecting to watch cj7, but 10 minutes into the movie, suddenly I saw Jay Chou riding on a bicycle. Right…I got the wrong info from J.A. and apparently we are watching Kung Fu Dunk. The movie turn out to be ok lar…I was expecting worse stuff from Jay Chou but that guy can act le…or so I think. It was not until yesterday when one of my peers told me that most of the roles he play is not far from his real personality. Hmm…I’ll leave his acting credibility to others…not really an avid follower of Chinese cinematography.

There was not much going on on the 2nd day. Skipping on to the third day now. We went for a family dinner near New World Park before heading on to my cousin’s place where we had a lot of fun "pok kiau".

On the fourth day, we celebrated grandma’s birthday at Penang Swimming Club (PSC). Had a course dinner and later on went for karaoke. Here are some random pics:

Dinner pics…

More dinner pic…

My cousins…the three Js.

The cousin’s table a.k.a. the Kids’ Table. Hahah…all cousins for the exception of my aunt (in red)

At the karaoke room.

Ah ma "pun ang pow"

Joel won’t let go the mic!! That’s me with the Chinese samfu…dashing le…lol.

That is basically all the CNY posts. I malas lar want to write some more.

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Anyway, its been a long road for this blog and I suppose this is where the writing ends. To those who actually wasted their time to read all my senseless rantings, I thank you. To those who disagreed with me on several post, thank you too. To those whose feelings I accidentally hurt…my deepest apologies.

As for those who are still trying to decipher my so-called metaphorical and shamelessly lyrical writing, keep deciphering!! Hahah…worse come to worse ask me lar…they don’t mean anything also lar.

The last of my soliloquy ends here at this moment. All said and done, good night and good bye.