Have been struggling to keep my eyes open since 10.30 after an amazing reunion dinner put together by Mother, Grandmother and the extended family from Indo. Internet is also down and has been sporadically down hence the lack of updates, I’m typing this on my phone.

Chinese New Year this year feels like its going to be so different from the others. I’m not really feel the mood and I’ve already put on the expected CNY food baby so I’m not looking forward to squeezing into my cheong sam either. But at the same time I’ve been so lucky and blessed these past few days that I’ve been in a good mood and even when I’m pissed off it doesn’t take a certain someone long to come cheer me up.

After the New Year break the end of my holidays will start to loom over me and it’s back to academic mode for the second year of university. I absolutely love long breaks like this during uni years because it means I don’t have to study for advance preparation or play the kiasu game I have been all my life since primary school. Though maybe it’s not that I don’t have to, I just choose not to but I get by like this anyway.

Well that’s my little segue away from what is obviously the subject matter based on the title. It’s well past midnight and in case anyone has forgotten, I’m sure the sound of my neighbours booming fireworks will remind you. Happy Chinese New Year lovelies. Let’s all try to just be thankful and get through what is forecasted to be a hard year on most of us. Besides, aren’t the ‘gimme ang pow’ jokes getting a little old?