Red packets and Loud family members

It's the time of the year where Chinese everywhere rush home to celebrate the Chines New Year. Traffic gets extra bad, people get extra frustrated and food gets extra expensive. Everywhere you go, your ears are tortured with CNY songs and your eyes are blinded with red, yellow and gold colour in the name of prosperity.

Not forgetting the family members and relatives that you meet once a year, getting together for a family reunion dinner. Nothing beats the chopstick martial arts move you pull everytime you try to get some food in your mouth. The best would still be the astonished look on your cousins' faces when you managed to get a small piece into your mouth before you strike again.

Uncles and aunties ask similar questions according to your age group every year. For primary school kids, they'll complement your growth and academic achievements. Secondary kids usually get reminded of major examinations and tertiary kids are praised for making Daddy and Mommy proud. Young adults get told of how pretty/handsome one turn out to be.

But questions of one's relationship status never fails to make it to the list of questions. Those single suffer through quaries of their ability and choice to look for partners as well as agonize about aunties that tries too hard to set you up. For those with partners, wedding questions are unavoidable. Similarly, interrogation related to children and grandchildren can be heard among the recently married couple.

All in all, CNY is a time for family and getting together to celebrate joyuous moments. Sometimes, sticky situations are inevitable in large family reunion. The best you can do it try your best to hide or come up with wonderful, evassive abilities to dodge these dangerous questions that are utterly annoying.

Happy Chinese New Year everyone and Gob bless!

The definition of love

During our Lit tutorial today, somehow the discussion diverted to the definition of love. (Don't ask me how we managed to manuever the discussion there. I wasn't really paying attention). So, Dr. S was going around the class and asking us what do we understand by love. There were plenty replies but there are a few that stood out because they were just plain cute, weird, realistic etc. For example;

AM said that love is when Mommy and Daddy hold hands.
GYS said that love is Malaysia.
and I think GL will say that love is money and shoes and bags and shopping. I can't totally disagree with her =]
Personally, I think that love is when I no longer have to be afraid.

Well.. Thanks to Dr. S, I've decided to Googled the definition of love namely from little kids. This is what I found:

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, "What does love mean?" The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think:

"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love." Rebecca - age 8

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth." Billy - age 4

"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other." Karl - age 5

"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs." Chrissy - age 6

"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." Terri - age 4

Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK." Danny - age 7

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen," Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)

"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate," Nikka - age 6

"There are two kinds of love. Our love. God's love. But God makes both kinds of them." Jenny - age 8

"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday." Noelle - age 7

"Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well." Tommy - age 6

"During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore," Cindy - age 8

"My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night." Clare - age 6

"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken." Elaine -age 5

"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford." Chris - age 7

"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day." Mary Ann - age 4

"I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones." Lauren - age 4

"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." Karen - age 7

"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget," Jessica - age 8

Ps: Especially like the fianl one.

New Year Resolutions??

Frankly, new year resolutions are like chains that binds you in the spirit of New Year and then you toss them out like stale bread in a few days. So what's the point of new year resolutions? Resolutions allow you to imagine the fantasy or the possible you but the reality sets in and bad habits take control. So why try to change yourself?? Isn't great being just you and embracing the special qualities of yourself?

Hence, I'm embracing the lazy and fickle-minded me this year so, no new year resolutions!