Cards playing with my family

Last December when my family members were here with me,  some nights our activity was card playing. That was really fun. We played Bullshit! and also other card games, like having the card sticking on your forehead while pouring the beer onto the cup in the middle. When we revealed the cards, the smallest-card-holder has to drink it.

When we play bullshit!, I always love when dad can see through who was bullshitting. Dad is really good in that game, he really knows who was bullshitting and he always got his guess right.  He is also a helper. He always help Chen Chen to clear her cards. (Jie, next time let me sit beside Dad too, yea?) I also miss those laughters, cheers and screams when 11 of us sit around in the small living room to play that game. And I can’t forget when mom did not even know how many cards are there for a number (it’s 4) and she said she has more than 4 cards.

When we play smallest-card-must-drink-game, it is always fun to see my auntie drink. When she was the loser she said she was thirsty and she needed to drink. Cannot tahan with her. As her wish, she really had to drink many times that night. Haha. That was also the only time we get to drink beers  in front of our parents, without the grant of permission.

Awww~ That makes me miss them more now.

Dream on

My sisters Chen Chen, Peng Peng and Li Li are in Jay Chou’s concert now. They just called me few minutes ago. I heard the crowd screaming and Jay Chou is singing “Zhui Huo De Zhan Yi”. I really hope I can be there.

My sisters, including me…actually not only us, I would say that my family members love Jay Chou. Maybe not for my parents lar…but they been listening to many of his songs in our car. We really like Jay Chou because we think that he is very talented. We never miss buying any of his albums. (I have the latest one too!) We attended every concert of his, if possible. (Argh, not for me this time.)

Last three years we spent RM300 for a concert ticket and it was no regret. This year they spent RM400 for a single ticket. I personally think that spending RM400 on a ticket is little too much, but…I will buy it too. Haha.

I wonder if Jay Chou will come Australia and have his concert here. Probably not, but…let me dream on…. ^.^

10 comparisons for you to think you also good…

I guess this somehow related with the previous post. You can take it as a continuation, or it can be a way for me to show the “You see me good, I see you good” stuff…

1. Family

There is no gulf distanced you from your family members. You get to spend more time with them. Say even if you are not staying with them, I am sure the phone calls you made are much much much more clearer than an International calls. You also get to celebrate Chinese New Year with them.

2. Friends

You don’t have many friends as compared to your stays in Malaysia. Yes, no doubt you get the chance to know peoples from different countries, but when you just feel that you are comfortable to hang up with them, they leave and they go back to their countries.

3. Food to crave for

Crave for Lo Shu Fen/Tom Yum/Curry Wanton Mee/Dim Sum/? I tell myself to save more money. But that’s ok…but what happened when I have the cravings for mom’s food. I tell myself to save more money to fly home.

4 . Selection of food

…is limited. Take breads as an example. I am not very fancy about bread. They sell a broad range of breads, but they are all hard breads. Throw at wild boars, wild boars also pengsan.

5. Chillis/Ketchup

I love chillis. Now I turned to Ketchup-lover. You know why. Want chillis? Pay lor…

6. Money

Earning big bucks here? Oh yea…that is if you convert. If you don’t, you live the life as everybody else. Pay the home loan, pay for the super expensive petrol, pay for your groceries, pay for your electricity bills, water bills and you name it.

7. Facial

Have I seen any facial stores before? Hmmm…maybe one? A place to do eyelashes curl like what Jas just did? No…never discovered any.

8. Water Restriction

Hey we have water restrictions! Currently water restrictions level is 6. Waste water?Better not, else you will be paying.

9. Light

I notice light bulbs that use in most houses here is yellow in color. White color one? Buy and D.I.Y. Those yellow light bulbs makes you feel really sleepy all the times.

10. Jokes

I don’t understand their jokes. When they laugh, I laugh too. That is a courtesy that I can always give.

Jas, I think you can do better than me on this. Haha. By the way, I am not complaining. I love peoples and food in Malaysia and I also like the environment in Australia. I just want to make you to feel good about yourself.

You see me good, I see you good only…

Besides calling up my family members these few days, I have also made a number of calls to my old friends to send them my very sincere new year wishes to them and their family. Why do I need to stress that I am sincere? Each time before I call to friends in Malaysia, I have this absurd fear. I am afraid that they might get it wrong and have the thinking that I call to show off. Seriously I never had the intension too.

If I am possible (I usually did), I sent snail-cards to my close friends on Chinese New Year. If I am not capable of, I will send e-cards. It gets me pretty upset when friends don’t know you are sincere (even though you think you have done enough) and start thinking that you are a bragger or you are just to call or show off.

Okie…I don’t know, or perhaps I think too much. But I actually kena before and close friends came to tell me that I made someone mad. Now it makes me phobic.

Last Tuesday after my work, I called up two of my close friends.

Friend 1 :“Oh, so you earn big bucks there lar, just call to Xuan4 Yao4, is it?”

Friend 2:”You are in Australia, working or studying?” Just after I replied I am working here, there is a silence that needs either one of us to break it. I just felt it that way. That is because once upon a time, when I just started working and this friend is still studying, she asked me the same question on the phone and I told her that I already start working, she felt offended and thought I action lar…

Maybe I am too sensitive. Maybe they are just joking with me. But I really don’t hope that my friends, particularly those close ones, think I had that showing-off intension.

I just want to say, working in Australia is not so big deal and I really miss Malaysia. And ermmm…everything you see is good on me, it is not neccessary good on me. It is you see me good, I see you good only…

Tweety bird

If I am a bird, I must be a tweety bird, a bird without wings.

After 26 years, this is my first year that I dine out for my reunion dinner. It is really devastating. You start missing mom’s cooking and all the loved ones. I am not sure if I can call myself tradiotional or I don’t have a better word to say it. I really enjoy and love the joy, the togetherness and having the very merry and loud family members at home.

Listening to each of them from the phone brings me happiness, a very good feeling of happiness. The despair will be and is actually cured after every International phone calls that I made. So I actually call…all the times and so I feel like I am with them.

Next year if I can make myself a pair of wings and get back on Chinese New Year, I will forget about taking naps on first day of Chinese New Year (Yea…I did), but enjoy it to the fullest!

Happy Chinese New Year and Gong Xi Fa Cai. ^.^

Happy Chinese New Year

to everyone of you. I want to wish you too, doesn’t matter if you don’t know me.

This is my first Chinese New Year that I will be not at home. I feel so sorry that I can’t be home. Seriously my heart aches and I am very upset every time I think about it. I start to have a lot of pictures and imaginations in my head since last two weeks. I imagined how nice nice nice nice nice nice nice nice it would be to have my chinese new year with my family. I really want to be with them on Chinese New Year because I really want to and I love everyone of them.

I will be working on Chinese New Year. To make sure that I am not crying on that day, I just need to go work. Yoppo and I, and friends might be joining the crowd at Chung Tian Temple on New Year Eve. Though I can’t be home and go pray with my family on the first day of Chinese New Year, I will do it in here and pray for everyone.

To all my family members and relatives, Happy Chinese New Year. Trust me,  if it is possible I really want to wish you all face-to-face. I miss you all and I love you all very much. Happy Chinese New Year and Gong Xi Fa Cai. *love forever*