Chinese New Year 2005

How would you feel, if you were rudely awokened from your beauty sleep by the clankering and distinctly irritating melodies of Chinese New Year songs?.. Frustrated is probably the word you're looking for.. imagine, playing cny songs in the car on the way back to m'cca is already bad, picture playing it at 7.30 am with the volume knob as high as it can be.. but as usual, every parent has the same excuse given, "build up the cny spirit".. crap! Oh well, apart from that, the past 2 days were filled with fun, food, ang pows, anything you could ever want from the annual trip back "home".. minus the damn humid weather of course! The most enjoyable thing would most probably be the reunion dinners and lunches.. except for the vegetarian (you got that right! VEGETARIAN!!) dinner.. my 5 year old cousin could make something much more similiar to a fish with toothpicks than what the chefs did to the "deep fried "fish"".. plus the 10 mins intervals between each dishes.. and NO wine!!.. the trauma hasnt gone, but ive been stuffing myself with meat ever since.. we even joked about buying Big Macs for everyone at the dinner.. well, i guess that'll be the first and last time we'll ever have a VEGETARIAN reunion whatsoever.. retired to grandma's old house for the night, the weather was killing! even during the night, the air was warm.. so me whole family were all ordered to bathe before going to bed, even tub water was warm! but as long as u can refresh yourself in a wonderfully clean toilet ( i washed it!! haha).. who cares??!.. Luckily, stayed in m'cca for one night only, as dad didnt see the point in staying for long coz everyone who used to be down there, are all shifted up here in kl.. those good ol days are sooo long gone.. those days when my group of close cousins played Power Rangers in grandma's old house (used to be Tun Tan Cheng Lok's Holiday Villa, located in Gajah Berang) using transporting carts and wheel-barrows, when we used to gamble around the huge table.. damn i miss those days! Oh well, times change, we change too, but the memories will stay on forever..... peace!