Holy hell. I'm depressed as fuck.
CNY...is..............over?
Why is it that since few years back I start to feel like a year passed a bit too fast compared to when I was a student? Blink one eye...half a year gone. Blink another eye...writing yearly performance appraisal. Blink again...Christmas, New Year, Chinese New Year. Blink again, everything is OVER and before you know it, it's MARCH!
Err..
#1 First photo for CNY Eve. We're still cleaning halfway and blow drying all the power plug and sockets. That morning we woke up to a spoilt TV =( ya when we tried to turn it on, it kept doing those small explosion on the screen and it got more frequent and faster and getting louder. So we turned it off and the whole morning basically what we did is just lying around and sleeping. BECAUSE WHAT KIND OF CNY NO TV TO WATCH! AND WHERE TO FIND PEOPLE TO FIX TV ON CNY EVE AFTER FLOOD! My mum suggested us to blowdry the TV haha because according to her it might be damp inside but we ignored her obviously. Then after few hours my brother cannot tahan and he took the dryer and blow dry the back of the TV for 5 minutes or so...then WHOALAAAAAAAAA THE TV CAN TURN ON AND NO EXPLOSION SOUND AT ALL. See! Mums are always correct dammit. They're the only people in the world that can constantly use the "I told you so" phrase wahahaha.
#2 We had to use bricks to hold up all the cabinets because water is still dripping down.
#3 We had 9 nice wood dining chairs that came with the table bought er..20 years ago? Damn good wood ok! But the cushion on top of it was all wet from the flood so we threw it away. Left the table and found 5 plastic chairs for 5 of us at home.
#4 First thing to do is to take all the cookies from upstairs and put it on the table just incase people come visiting (although we doubt it).
#5 It's time like these that you will know who your real friends are. We don't have anything to cook in the house, even got also no time to cook, and markets are all sold out because nobody can lorry fresh vege/meat to Sgt due to the flood. All these are "donated" haha nola actually my dad's friend brought us all this food for lunch! And we kept telling my dad to treasure this friend because he came a few times to bring us breakfast and help us charge our hp batteries and such at his place and bring back for us when it's fully charged.
#6 Initially my dad didn't want to pray that night. My dad say he dont want to pray leh you all now what a big deal that is or not! He's very gung-ho when it comes to all these prayers and temple and god stuff so when he said he's too tired to pray, then we know my dad is REALLY VERY EXHAUSTED BEYOND LIMIT wtf. Anyway we told him it's fine if there's no food or nothing to offer for prayers but it's fine we'll just put some fruits and stuff. Well, god will understand and forgive us.
#7 HAHAHA that's what my sister and brother are doing when my dad is busy setting up the table outside and my mum still busy arranging stuff in the kitchen.
#8 Busy and exhausted fella.
#9 Busy dad. We never help out on this because only he knows the correct way of doing it.
#10 Fruits only!
#11 Exhausted dad. haha.
#12 It's midnight and I had to wake my sleeping sister up to pray.
#13 You see her tulan face hahahaha. So bo kam luan!
#14 Brother preparing things inside.
#15 Ok another one haha.
#16 No tripod so take turns in taking photo to remember the exceptional CNY where we all look tired and...broke.
#17 Another one. Wah so long never had my 2nd sister in CNY photos already. If only Martin & Pauline could be back too!
#18 Chinese being chinese, even though everyone's house was wiped out by the flood, everyone still prayed and celebrated start of CNY with lots of fireworks and exceptionally more red firecrackers too.
#19 Normally not that much coz police will be scouting for people to fine but this year, not a single police car around this year. Well just let us celebrate the way we want it after all the suffering!
#20 Non stop fireworks from all direction.
#21 Luckily electricity is back.
#22 Exhausted dad.
#23 Exhausted mum. Not very exhausted sister.
#24 More.
#25 More. The whole night for like 2 hours.
#26 My friends always say its very easy to recognize my house coz of all the lightings almost like a disco.
So that's how it is for our CNY eve with 'donated' food and lots of cleaning. It's a good experience but please, one time enough already this kind of experience pftttt.
I tried to copy out the photos from my camera to blog about the camping trip and I found photos all the way back from CNY! Can't believe in 3 months plus I only take so little photos and the SD is not full yet.
This was back in Jan (is CNY in Jan wtf?) on our annual visit to Sze Wei's place for some drinking & gambling night.
#1 The early birds.
#2 Group photo before we proceeded for 21pt gambling. I lost so I don't even want to talk about it wtf.
#3 Our boss sponsored all the liquor and food and soft drinks and shandy. Opened quite a lot of bottles though but then he's rich so it's all peanuts to him.
I remembered I took a lot of photos but don't know where did they go! Anyway I'm planning to buy a new camera maybe between Canon 550D or Olympus Pen. If you have either of this, please ping me when I'm online and let me know how is the camera okay coz I'm stingy like that and I don't want to spend so much money on something not worthy.
Oh speaking of spending money.
I said I wanted to buy an IPhone back in Jan. Then I kept saying my phone is still okay and have no excuse to buy a new phone. Then I lost my phone and I insisted on buying the phone and told everyone I wanted to buy and after 1 month I still haven't get any heh. Those people who didn't talk about buying all also buy liao wtf. Anyway my point is, I decided not to buy already lah coz USD rate dropped so much and I a bit sakit hati all my stocks...aih...
Some backlogged photos from Chinese New Year's Steamboat and Dong Zen temple.
#1 3 sekawan.
#2 4 sekawan heh no la. They're Step's college friends and they watch movie together every single week without fail sometimes 2 movies in a week. So many movies to watch meh I also don't understand.
#3 The dining area is fully occupied so we had to sit outside at the garden. Luckily the garden is quite cooling albeit a lil too many mosquitoes.
#3.5 lol 3.5 wtf I got the numbering all wrong and lazy to correct 1 by 1 so simply write 3.5. This is the dining area occupied by ehem older generations watching Jackie Chan's Shinjuku Incident.
#4 The real 4 sekawan. The steamboat is so nice leh the soup is so tasty make me so hungry now aih.
#5 Step's famous chicken wing. Seriously he makes really good chicken. That night one probably still a bit lacking in taste but the one he did the day after for his mum's party is damn juicy yum yum!
#6 After dinner we went to Step's least favorite place heh, the Dong Zen Buddhist Temple in Jenjarom. I think it's one of the biggest temples in Malaysia or something like that. It's really very very packed that night.
#7 The entrance have this papan with words and the red laterns all the way into the main building.
#8 This temple is really different from Kek Lok Si in terms of the lights deco. You can see Kek Lok Si deco HERE. The whole Kek Lok Si have just lanterns. But this Jenjarom temple uses all kinds of lighting, from little bulbs to cartoon decos which you'll see later on.
#9 I think that's the main building but not very sure.
#10 Astro Boy in temple wtf. Btw, I watched Astro Boy for I think 10 times over 1 weekend because my 5 yr old nephew is addicted to it and he wanted to watch it ALL THE TIME until the DVD rosak believe or not. really wan.
#11 See. This is what I'm talking about. All kinds of light deco. I don't think Kek Lok Si has this kind. But I think Kek Lok Si more grand lah.
#12 That is another part of the temple. The area is HUGEEEEEEE. They have parade that night so everyone's gathered around the area for the parade. I didn't get to see because it ended by the time I reach THAT SIDE of the temple wtf.
#13 Summore got Ferris Wheel inside temple area.
#14 Then everyone stopped walking for a while coz got fireworks.
#15 Also got all this kind of deco around. Not sure what is this though. I think they got explain on the board there but it's in Mandarin so I don't bother lah.
#16 Guan Yin with all her anak-anak hehe. The Guan Yin really 'fa guang' ok lol.
#17 There's these batu-batu display at the side. Also not sure what they meant. Ei you all got think my post very useless or not I don't know what's everything wtf not informative at all.
#18 Got pool also!
#19 That building..don't know for what wan coz I didn't go in. Eh I also got 'fa guang' leh haha.
#20 Ok not too sure but I think this is the main building coz it's the ONLY place that's air-conditioned. What a relief for us because it's damn fucking hot that night okay no wind at all.
#21 You have to either take off your shoes or wear this plastic thing over your shoe. I was taking photo the whole time so Step actually helped me wear the plastic aih I felt so lovedddddd so sweet that's why I wanted to take the photo but he's so fast I couldn't take a clear shot aih.
#22 People pay for the incense sticks and pray here.
#23 Then they go outside the building and leave their incense stick here.
The weird part is the temple turned off ALL the lights at 10pm So early! Then everyone had to walk in the dark and find their way out of the temple.
#24 When we got home, Step was so tired he ignored me and enjoy his massage only tsk.
#25 So I self entertain lah
Has the weather seriously gone crazy these days. I'm sitting in my room with the air-con but still sweating! And lunch lagi tak payah cakap. Walk from lobby to car park already sun-burnt. How like that!
