Happy Chinese New Year

So we went back to my Ipoh, my dad's hometown as usual for this chinese new year. The journey there was surprisingly smooth and therefore only took two hours, compared to the usual minimum five hours of bumper-to-bumper traffic during previous trips. This is mainly because them boffins at our kerajaan have so kindly decided to add a third lane to the two lane highway. This upgrade was completed just before the start of the chinese new year and of course, in due time for the coming elections. The irony of the whole thing though is that the jam began when we reached the town of ipoh itself.

Anyways this CNY was pretty much like previous ones, with the usual meeting up at my auntie's place, lunches, dinners, gambling and fireworks. Unfortunately though those big, red, noisy five-minute firecrackers usually set off to usher in the new year were unavailable this year so we had to make do with those big rockets that exploded in pretty little multi-coloured patterns in the sky. And the first of the big rockets fired into a neighbour's balcony, exploding there in all its multi-coloured glory and we thought maybe we shouldnt use them big rockets after all...and then we saw the rocket's stick still in the wine bottle. Turned out the stick had snapped and my cousin had cellotaped the two halves back together.

Lost twenty bucks when i could have won fifty, mostly due to greed. All in all though this was pretty much an enjoyable new year. Could've eaten more though...