Saturday, February 9, 2008
The day before yesterday was Chinese new year day 1!!! Of course, my brother woke up 1st, then me, then my dad and lastly, my mum. Same as any day. I told my brother happy new year. Then my dad when he gave me " hong bao" , I said happy new year. I never told my mum that, cause she woke up too late. I had kueh Bangkit for breakfast, but my brother didn't want it so he ate bread. Too bad ! :P At the dinig table, I told my mum happy new year finally. But she didn't hear. So my brother took the oppurtunity to say happy new year and my mum gave him the "hong bao" never give me. So sad. She say who never say happy new year no "hong bao". But I still pretend to eat.
After that I went to bathe, my dad say cannot wash hair. Then I wore my dress and all that stuff. And my mum asked me why I don't want to say happy new year to her. I said I told her already. Then I must say again. So she gave me. She and my dad gave us the same esign of "hong bao" ' so my brother mixed them up. But I didn't. And he said my mum and dad gave different amount of money. But when I told my mum, she said they gave the same smount because all the money in the "hong bao" was inserted by her ( she let the cat out of the bag *hee hee*) My dress felt very funny worn by me, very loose!!! And very very uncomfortable. I wanted to wear the necklance given to me by my grandfather, but it was missing. On new year's eve I took it out and don't know where I put it. So I wore my mickey mouse head necklace that my uncle gave to me on my birthday last year. Anyway, it was the year of the rat.
We were ready to start on our house visiting. I wore my high heels shoe. So difficult to walk!!! First we went to my mother's mum ( my grandma) 's house. At Kallang. We took a bus there. That's the problem with not having a car. On the highway, there was an accident. I didn't quite catch the car plate number but the car, which was black in colour, was badly dented. Many vehicles were involved and there was a massive traffic jam( the jam that cannot be placed on your bread). We were greeted with a loud bark of my Aunt's dog. It had cut its hair short. It climbed on me( I think it missed me :) ) and I gave it a pat on its head. I greeted everyone there and wished then a happy new year. Then my mum scooped rice for me to have lunch. I sat outside on a small and short coffee table at the living room, so I had to sit on the floor. The episode of kinship 2 that I missed was playing. Suddenly, the dog came closer to me and stared at me, as if it wanted to tell me something. But I could read its mind- it wanted food. My grandpa chased it away but it came back a while later. I fed it a grain of rice to test it. If it was hungry, it will just take athe grain of rice to eat. If it is not, it will just walk away. And indeed it was hungry. So I fed him a bit of each dish and my mum asked me what I'm doing. I said nothing. But she knew I was feeding the dog. So iI told her I was feeding the dog scraps of food that I dropped. I don't know why they have no mercy for this poor dog. Doesn't it have a life?
After a while, I went to my father's mum( my grandma also) 's house. My aunt( my father's elder sister) was there too. Her children are very big already. The younger one will go for NS in April this year. Then we went into my cousin's room. There were lots of photos and 2 computers there. So my cousin and his sister played Maple. I didn't understand at all, and I was very bored. He kept typing "cc please" . I don't even know what's cc. So I ignored. He wasn't talking to me anyway.
We took a london cab to my 2nd "lao yi" (my grandma's sister. I don't know what is "lao yi" in English)'s house. I don't know, the london cab just came and we just took it. Not that we're rich. But my 2nd " lao yi" is. She lives in a bungalow. I didn't go in the living room. Just went to the kitchen because we came in from the back door. Everyone, not everyone but almost everyone there I knew since I was a baby. Or maybe not. My younger cousins were there too. So they talked in dialect!! I don't understand so just sat there. So redundant..... :o
Next, Uncle William drove my cousins, brother, grandmother, grandfather and his to my great grandmother's house. It was very squeezy and my brother got to sit on my lap *ouch!* So my mum, Yima and dad went to sit the MRT.My great grandma is 100 this year and her husband died in World war 2. If you ask her about it, she woud probably have forgotten or else she will tell you in dialect. I only know a bit of that strange language because I heard it since young. And I asked and asked a lot of things until my mum gets irritated. Some words, even if she tells me a hundred or a million times, I will still forget. The good thing about dialect is, you can't jot it down in any language and there is no dictionary for this language. So my mum can't tell me to check dictionary. it's kindda hard to remember, though. My great grandma was greeted by all of us. She couldn't really remember us. 2 boys there were playing PSP, and a girl was playing computer games at Y8.com . My "gu po" asked her to shut down when we arrived. 4 adults in the room were playing majong. Later, my mum, yima and daddy arrived. They asked my great grandma whether if she reconised them. Suprisingly, she regonised and they were over the moon! But she didn't reconise me. She asked me " le si di diam?( who are you in dialect)" I didn't answer her. I don't have a name in dialect and she wouldn't know if I spoke in English. So she asked again. This time my grandma heard it. She said " ah girl ai kia ( Ah girl's child) " I couldn' t resist laughing. My mum was ah girl???!! Later I watched Kinship 2 , 2nd last episode. As the ending approached, all kids went out to play fire crackers. They didn't ask me and I didn't know. When kinship 2 ended, I awanted to ask my brother something and realised he was missing. There were some noise at the window so I looked out. They were playing. Wow! Magnificent man! My mum asked me to go out also. So I went and watched them. It was certainly embaressing to platy with all strangers. They seemed very happy but I don't know how to play. So I took up a stick, lighted it up and walked away from the rest. I was afraid it might burn me. I was burnt before. Slowly, I held it up till my shoulder lenght and watch it get burn while wondering what scientific concept was behind it. It depleted in a minute of deperation and hope. I didn't want to take another stick. It seemed that something or someone was holding me back. So I went back into the house and sat beside my mum. My great grandma asked my mum to get married. My mum said she's already married and pointed to me, saying that I am her kid. But my great grandma didn't believe. I went to my dad asking him for my water bottle. My dad said if anything happened to him, he would want to put to brain dead and donate all his organs.
Then, for the last stop of the day, we took MRT to my Aunt's house. When we reached there, my grandma's legs were tired and she sat down and leant back. But there was no cushion and behind the sofa bed, it was a wall. So she banged her hear HARDLY against the wall. For the whole night, her head hurt a lot. I wished I could do something to help, but was there?
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