Gong Xi Fa Chai

Yay, Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Chai! I didn't really expect much of today, but I tried to keep myself busy enough so that I don't wallow in my shameless emo-ism. But my family don't visit people (cause we like to keep to ourselves - or they do anyway, I'm still in the "I don't mind socialising" stage - if I could). I woke up at around 9 AM a bit shaky, like... clutching onto my pillow for dear life. And I didn't feel too good. But I was like... this is fucking retarded and I am NOT gonna continue being like this so I sat up and decided to go downstairs. Mum was frying up the noodles you're supposed to eat for long life or whatever which was nice. Yeah, I ate lunch at 9:30 AM, lol. Let's see, you're supposed to wear new clothes on the first day of CNY or something, so I was like picking out what to wear from the stuff I got in KL.

At 10:30 AM we headed over to Grandmother's house, and sat around chatting with two of our uncles until 12. It was a bit dull cause like... adult talk. I'm not really that interested, haha. If you are wondering, I have a large family in Brunei but the fact that I never meet them nor do they ever meet us kind of shows you something regarding the state of affairs over here. Majority of my 'family' is overseas also... went somewhere for holiday or whatever. Then we went home and I was tired for some reason, so I took a nap. Hahaha. At around 1:30 got up to go to Laura's open house. My parents went elsewhere during that time. I was bored anyway, so yeah just hung at Laura's place for over an hour. It was sort of weird, cause technically she should attend to all the VIP's in her house but she used me as an excuse to sort of... not... do that. And one time when I was standing about and I ended up having to shake people's hands too. What I didn't realise was that one of the guys was like... the Japanese Embassador. T.T Uhh... *shuffles to the side a bit* Then there was the Singapore Embassador... and stuff (yeah... basically her front yard was full of cars from different embassies and ministers lol). Many VIPs in one place. O.o Uhh... at the house besides talking to Laura, I met her cousin Stephanie, and saw Afiqah and Ridwan - been years pretty much since I saw em'. I was hoping to see Nick or Jona though TBH since I thought they might come XD

Hmm. During a time when Laura was attending others, I was pretty bored lol. All I had was my mobile and I didn't know who to message. Normally I would like message.... uhh... >.> ....actually nevermind but yeah so then I sent it to Akmal since I figured he wouldn't mind me bothering him, haha. And he phoned and I'm sorry dude for killing your credit. Considering you were phoning from Malaysia. =.= But it was good to hear ya again haha I like the periods where it's just MSN and then ur like "kyaa~ I get to hear ya voice *__*" I had that last night with Khanat too in our very brief session of testing out his new headphones. XD

I was really surprised towards dinner! My family decided to eat dinner together. Me: O.O We're actually eating dinner together!! KYAAA~ <3 <3 Whooo hoooo~ the dinner was good but sadly I guess I still have an aversion to food or something. Since I felt really sick while eating (like I was gonna throw up) ... T.T ... but I tried my best to eat. I'm eating more now so hopefully I can slowly build it up and like... be normal again, lol. After dinner... more fireworks! We just set a few off since we didn't spend much on them this year. Uhh... I was scared to death but I managed to light one, lol. My bro and his gf are the fearless ones (cause they've lit too many to care). We had one set of fireworks that is supposed to like... spin... into the air, but it sometimes doesn't work. It was funny it backfired three times (out of six). First time we didn't know what was gonna happen so it just basically went kaboom right in front of us and we were like "O.O OMG!!!! AHHH!!". LOL, fireworks up close (too close o.o) Second time it backfired we ran for it (I hid behind the car, while the family hid behind poles) and did the same thing. LOL, the third one was the big one. Uhh... bro was lighting it, but it backfired by shooting towards us to our house and got caught under the roof and sort of crashlanded right in front of us - by this time we all ran away already except for my bro who sort of like tried to protect himself but didn't run and we were all like screaming our heads off for him to run before the thing blew up... but then it never did luckily o.o almost gave us all a heart attack). Bro said he didn't run cause he was like... "It was too late for me to run!! Gotta try to save myself another way" =.=

After that... played some games with bro and his gf then we went to watch a movie in our living room. "I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry" or something like that. An Adam Sandler movie about two straight men getting married to commit fraud and having to live a gay life to avoid it. It was excellent!!! (okay even though it got bad reviews lol) YI XIN, WE ARE SOOO WATCHING THIS WHEN WE GET BACK TO MELB!! Everyone together!! Seriously, it's a must!! Ahahahahaha XD XD Reminds me of our time of watching umm... Good Luck Chuck. Hehe, that was something I'll always remember....

Anyway it's 10:40 PM for me I should try to sleep by 11 PM-ish. Since work starts tomorrow ~ yay for waking up at 6 AM and getting to school by 7 AM. *nods* Liz is coming by tomorrow to see if she can get a placement at ISB too, that would be awesome cause then I'll have someone to chat to and eat lunch with~ :D :D