Sunday, February 18, 2007
|1:09 PM|
Today is officially the first day of CNY here in Nebraska, US (due to the time difference from Malaysia...). This is my first CNY away from home and definitely wouldn't be the last. Back home, I think I have taken CNY celebrations for granted. Every year, me and my family would be doing the same thing for CNY. On CNY eve, we would go over to my grandma's place (dad's side) for dinner and then we would go jalan-jalan in Petaling Street since my grandma's place is in KL. On the first day of CNY, we would go to the same grandma's place for brunch/lunch and we would meet up my mum's side grandma and my aunt's family (together with my cute lil' cousins) and would go visiting to other relative's places. On the second day, we would go for brunch/lunch at my grandma's place (mum's side) and from there, we would go to pay our respects to my grandfather (who has passed on) and then go visiting again. We would visit other relatives and friends on this day. I think I have taken this routine for granted as each year I would complain that it is 'boring' and the sun during this period of time would be unbearably scorchingly hot. Now that I'm here, I realize that CNY celebrations actually has played a bigger role in my life then I have thought. When I hear about the plans my family has, I realized that I actually miss them and miss home very much, especially on this very occassion. Not to mention the amount of good food and ang paos that I am missing!! Sighz...this actually teaches me a very good lesson to appreciate things around us and not take things for granted. There's not much of a CNY mood or celebration around here as it's a small town and there's no China Town here or whatsoever...I've never had such a quiet CNY before but I guess I have to get use to this...Man I can't wait for summer so that I can go home! But I guess I'm dealing with this pretty well...or at least that's what I would like to think so!
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