Eppy Chinese New Year ah!

Eeeeeeeeee.... Happy Chinese New Year! My neighbours were blasting their songs. Well, it's actually considered Our songs, but since I don't speak chinese (as what people would say, "Banana". Yellow on the outside, and white on the inside) I find those Chinese New Year songs to be quite irritating. Sounds of "tong tong tong chang" were going on outside as me and my roomate rolled our eyes. She was actually asking me why I wasn't joining the racket out there. I proclaimed I'm the quiet kind of Chinese. Which she responded with a nodding of the head saying, "Not many of those nowadays,".

Was kind of missing my family back home. If I were in Malaysia right now, I'd be relaxing in my home town. Going around collecting Angpaos' (red packets). I would have had a haircut before new year and would have plenty of new clothes. On New Year's day everyone in my family would be wearing red. And after NY's eve dinner, we'd play firecrackers which we bought illegally from the chinese store(the uncle keeps everything in the back of the store). It was really cool buying it that way, cos it seemed like a scene from those shows where those gangsters were trying to get weapons or something. After playing firecrackers we would all sit down and gamble, trying to win each other's money. Guess I'll be missing out on that for another 5 more years! Not much complains though. The "tong tong tong chang" music is reminding me of what I don't have to go through back in Malaysia, where every mall and certain streets are playing the exact same thing. It's like banging my head with cymbals. "Tong Tong Tong CHANG!"