highly literary, with occasional grammar slips

chinese new year has been a breeze this year.

this has got to be one of the least worrisome chinese new year i have had since a long time ago. except for the present moment (which i am in a state of suffering due to insomnia), the year's most tiresome and troublesome festivity had dealt me a pretty pleasant deck this year. and oh, other than when my mother sabo-ed me to play the piano for my uncle, everything went as clock's work. i am so glad, you haven't any idea how.

one of the best highlight was my $35.90 investment in a shirt from "The Box". my utter lack of time for shopping resulted in a 5minute-only browsing at jurong point when i was waiting for lola for lunch just 2 days before chinese new year itself. yet, i ended up with one of the best buys since my hong kong shopping trip... which wasn't too long ago. but anyway, the shirt was a splendid purchase for chinese new year because it, simply put it, hides the bak kwa sticking out from your tummy.

i have a feeling the quality of chinese new year depends solely, and greatly on the clothes you purchase for it. buying size 0s when you are obviously a size 10 will just kill all the festive mood because the only thing you can do is suck it in and stay like that the whole night. or risk looking like you've eaten the entire bee cheng hiang. the entire course of chinese new year will be a rather asthma-inducing time if you were to have too tight a fitting cheongsam/daniel yam gown/ vera wang cosetted dress. i can hear the pop sound already.

but i guess i enjoyed this year's CNY not just because of my awesome looking shirt. seeing my families and friends and spending time with them truly made me happy too. the exuberance of teasing my cousins, playing spin-the-bottle with my OVE friends, taking pictures with my nainai, raving over my cutest (and only) baby nephew, eating vegetarian steamboat (which by the way, is more challenging than you can imagine) is really, the highlight of my enjoyment. more to come over the next 2 weeks!

but still, let me just say it is super shiok to have a good set of clothes!

look ma, no fats!