Chinese New Year 2006

This year’s Chinese New Year is a very busy one. We were busy decorating the house and spring cleaning. Not forgetting, teaching my niece on performing some of the housework. We had our reunion dinner at my grandmother and uncle’s house. On the first day of Chinese New Year, we visited the “open house” at Fort Cornwallis for free food. There was still a lot of food available despite our late visit, specially the non-Chinese stalls. There were quite a number of Indians there other than Chinese. On the first 2 days of Chinese New Year, we had steamboat at my uncle and aunt’s house. 2 days of steamboat is more than enough to give me a freak about food.

My uncle’s house was robbed on the third day of Chinese New Year. The estimated lost is around RM 1K. It is a lesson for everyone. Do not put too many valuable things such as cash and jewelries at home during festive seasons. Do remember to keep your door lock as well!

On February 1(Wednesday), we had a small gathering at Coffee Bean, Gurney Plaza at 2pm. This is the first gathering after more than 3 years, since Siew Hoon’s birthday party in 2002. 14 people attended the gathering – Siew Hoon, Hui Ping, Yoke Pei, Hui Wen, Yoke Yen, Siew Ean, Yee Loo, Chiew May, Kae Wen, Siew Eng, Tian Tian, Ee Pheng and I. Yi Wen came quite late and Tuan Fern was unable to attend the gathering as promise. There was a kind of weird feeling when we saw each for the first time after a long time. Many of us stayed quiet for some time. Some of us are still quite close as we still keep in touch. Everything became heated up after the photo session. There were around 4 cameras. Many of us flipped through our graduation magazines before attended the gathering as there are some names which we had forgotten. The class gathering turned out to be another small gathering of friends when we saw some of our ex-schoolmates. Even though we do not know each other and have never talk to each other before during high school, it feels good to see them again.

Even though I did not reach my goal of seeing all my friends, at least I met some of them ^^