A Lunar New Year

  Sorry... I kinda lost my tempo back there... This post will be a totally different one.

  Red packets slip into our hands and piggy-banks as if they were mails and envelopes since the 80's. Families, friends, family's friends, everyone would visit one another for reunion gatherings. Nothing could feel better than seeing those familiar faces becoming unfamiliar with age. Nothing could feel any better than sharing the life of one another from the previous year, 2011, when chances of seeing one another was rare. Could any family-related business be any more enjoyable than a reunion dinner with a steamboat filled with shellfishes, fish-balls and cash, followed by an original yu sheng with raw salmon?

  This year is quite different. We didn't have yu sheng and we didn't have salmons either. We enjoyed the Lunar  New Year by watching local and Malaysian comedies. Our steam-boat soup was different this year, with lobster soup instead of chicken or spicy or whatever one can think of, thanks to this very generous colleague of my dad's who got them cheap somewhere "in this world". The house was filled with prosperous silence, as my brothers had their reunions online with what "many" friends they have. Both my brothers celebrated Lunar New Year by giving and taking "pwns" in DotA. All my friends weren't free because they have their own reunion gatherings with their relatives, although I do suspect one or two of them are too busy playing weird video games and watching pornography(Particularly ....... and .... .... Well, this is the Internet, so I don't intend to name them)

  These days, I have nothing better to do at home, so I went to work-out in gyms and swimming pools. The point is, because everyone had to go to school and stuff, we couldn't go overseas and visit our relatives there. These days, I wouldn't mind not using Facebook and stuff. There is this huge change in me that makes me miss some of my Best Friends ever since the 'O' Levels ended. I guess I'm not the only one who suffers this torment...

  A brand new year. A brand new life. A brand new brand for us. Let the Year of the Dragon give birth to children with extraordinary dreams, and a new pair of wings to those whose wings have already worn, and a brand new set of dreams for the dreamers, and brand new branded hand-bags that can at least avoid using the skins of those poor animals... D: