Am back from the visiting. As per usual, the Chinese New Year so called celebration was held at my paternal grandparents’.
Now let me tell u what happened chronologically to my heart's content: (Oh, and before i start, i have to inform those who are reading that i am not being narcissistic. i am not full of myself. juz being the straight-forward me. gee)
I got ready and wore my new clothes that I bought yesterday and I thought I was like a walking brown woman. Here is why –
- I bought a 100% lycra skirt ($38)
- a brown rather translucent long sleeve blouse ($23)
- brown sunglasses ($16.90)
- brown sandals ($15.90)
- my newly self-dyed copper brown hair ($11.90)
In total, I spent like $105.70 juz for today. But it’s ok…it’s a matter of looking good since I have not seen them for like 2 yrs.
Since my dad went out first to start the car and stuff, I got ready all around the house – running around in my undergarment and asking my mum do I look good and stuff. And she juz smiled and said how contented she is to have me as a daughter and she said I look super-duper good. Oh, she also advised me (but more like threatening seh) NOT to tie my hair up…hahaz.
And there I was in front of my mirror touching up on my clothes and stuff with my mum staring intently at me.
I took a last glance at the mirror and seriously speaking, I mean seriously, I looked like I juz stepped out of a fashion magazine. Fine, call me egoistic but I wun say it unless it is true. Gee. But SERIOUSLY.
My dad waited for me along the main road and he was like “Whoa…I can’t even recognize you. My daughter is so pretty. They wun believe you are my daughter.”
I know this make me sound as if I have a huge ego but tt was wad came out of my dad’s mouth.
And then my dad went on and on abt how I look like his younger sister when she was young. And I have no idea which sister of his he is referring to. I mean theres like 9pairs of aunts and uncles and dozens of cousins.
Once we reached, I shook my ye-ye’s (is tt how u spell it? Anyways it means my grandfather) hand and wished him “Happy New Year”. And I shook all the Tom, Dick and Harry. Sounds rude but theres too many to list down.
Well, you should have seen the faces of my aunts and uncles and cousins. It was damn funny. They were like shocked when they see me. Perhaps its the two years. But I think it is more of their perception that I can never look good.
So there they were giving comments like “whoa…youre so big oredi”, “whoa…you’ve grown so pretty” and the list goes on. ( i have to say i am NOT being narcissistic. :] )
Surprisingly enough, my mama (grandmother) began conversing with me in Mandarin. She never say more than two sentences to me in my whole life for every CNY (not that I mind. I aint close to them) but this time, she talked incessantly to me. Not that I mind but I dun understand 70% of what she was saying.
I could only catch a few Mandarin words here and there and I formed closure and guessed what she was talking abt. And as usual, I was like on the right track. Maybe she misses me not seeing me for such a long time.
At least I was polite and nodded and replied (in Mandarin) using my oh-so-limited vocab.
And then theres this cousin of mine (I really cant grab her name. I did ask my dad when we left the house but I cant rmb it anymore) who exclaimed she saw me in the Cohesion Mag. Wuahuahua. She was like, “I noticed first. I was thinking whether it was my secondary school fren or something. So familiar. Then I realized it was my cousin!”
She sounds neutral. I think she never did like me. Dunno why. Maybe she juz sounds like tt. But I have this feeling that she doesn’t like me. Whatever lahz.
But I would have to say she was like the prettiest among all my cousins.
The second in ranking will be the Avril Lavigne look-alike. Seriously. Same size, height, hair, colour (both skin and hair) and yada yada yada. Looks like a typical ah-lian but she’s pretty alright. Her twin – also my cousin – was like an ah-beng. But good-looking I muz say.
Well, I was like the youngest among all of them. They are all 20+. Im the only one in my teens. But they look juz as young. And nice. And good-looking.
I think I better stop here. (778 words and still counting)its getting longer. Will cont tml or something.
GONG XI FA CAI everybody. And Happy Hols. Wheee
