Happy Chinese New Year!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Family Day!
Lol, 3 holidays bunched up into one weekend. Busy especially for Asian people. Good thing it’s reading week for us next week. Finally get a week to breathe…sort of.
I just came back from watching the CSSA’s Chinese New Year show. It was decent. I won a set of speakers, lol. So random.
I really want to cut my hair short. I want the bobo cut (as they call it in China). It’ll be nice to try a new look, but I’m not too sure if it would fit my face. But it took me sooo long to grow my hair to this long. Hmm dilemma.
Chinese New Year is family time. Family meals, gatherings, games, etc. I remember when I used to go back to my grandparents and we’d all have a HUGE feast. Then we would go around to more distant relatives and greet them. The kids would get 红包 from the elders. CNY in Canada is different, because we only have our family here, we gather around other friends/neighbours and celebrate with them. As the saying, 远亲不如近邻, friends here are so important; especially to my mom and dad. I know what they’ve been through, and the thing they need the most right now, is to talk with their friends here in Canada. So they are going back to take care of the house and see them and everything. I hope they will be safe and enjoy their time there.
I won’t be going back with them, even though it is CNY and tradition to be together. Mainly because there’s not much for me back there and their parties never included ‘kids’ my age. And I’m not a kid anymore. I’m glad my parents recognized that and said that I’m no longer a kid that have to stick by their side all the time. I guess it is the first time that I will be celebrating the first day of CNY by myself. New experience. Looking forward to it. But I suddenly miss my relatives in China, their food, their enthusiasm, and their love.
Valentine’s Day happens to be on the same day as CNY. What a tough day for people to choose who to spend their time with, lol. Oh and apparently it’s also NBA All Stars game that night too. Haha. I think I’ve always spent Valentine’s Day alone. Hmm, maybe not last year, when all of us went to sing K; but I still felt quite alone even though I was spending it with a lot of friends. 2 years ago, I had hoped to spend it with that person. But he said yes to dinner with another friend without even blinking. Later that night, he dropped off some roses in front of my door and said that he felt sorry that I was sitting alone at home. I was almost touched. He said he just picked the last one up, so I asked him what coloured rose would he wanted more of if he had a choice…and he said yellow. The meaning of yellow roses is friendship. That’s why I was almost touched.
I had always imagined that if I had a boyfriend, he would plan everything for v-day and I would just go along as he take me to places that he has planned. Then he would give me a surprise present some time during the date. No roses, no chocolate, no teddy bears; but something special and more memorable. Lol, that only happens in dramas and movies. But it’s always nice to dream. =)