It's officially the First Day of the Chinese New Year (CNY) and I'm washing the sheets and packing some of our junk for our move. Yah, not exactly how I want to spend my CNY but unfortunately we're expected to move on Sat so I have to get something done in the house. Moreover, there isn't too much to celebrate since my Chinese family is not here neither can I find the yummy New Year goodies.Oh yes, I even remember the taste of the Chinese new year goodies, so yummy it make putting on the extra pounds seems so worth it.
Personally I enjoyed the CNY better when I'm a kid, during then, it's like "Woohooo...it's my Birthday and I can eat whatever I want with no restriction and get high on the candies and sugar and even get red packets filled with money !!!" The only down part is the constant answering to Questions like "So what grade are you in now ?" followed by "What was your class position last year" which if I wasn't in the Top 10 of my class that last year, I would be in so much trouble with my parents anyway. So those doesn't really bother me and those FBI and CIA detectives would move on to the next questioning victim cause they have bigger fish to fry.
When I started work as an adult, that's when it gets annoying... No more getting high on sugar cause it no longer work but now I'm old enough to progress to the Adult section - The Alcohol, which will help to get me numb instead of high! Along with age, the question bombarded also upgraded. Like a game show, except there's no price (okay, maybe the red packet money to buy more alcohol to numb yrself). Some of the typical Questions are "So where are you working at now?" followed by "Do you have a boyfriend now?". If your answer is "Yes", then you would be thrown into a trap without realising and that is Question no. 3 which is "Why didn't you bring your boyfriend with you?" or even better the Holy Grail of all questions "When are you getting married ?" That's when you wish the alcohol in yr blood stream would work so fast that you either puke in their face or not then pass out so you didn't even hear Question 3 or even wish everyone is aware that you are suffering from Selective Memory lost thus you can't even recall what the question is or this whole entire conversation is all about!
Since my Brother is usually the first target and after witnessing the victim's pain and struggle, I normally cut the suffering off by giving my answer to Question 2 as "No boyfriend" and that'll save me all the pain and agony. If anyone in the entire universe would be as naive/stupid to think that, "Maybe after getting married, all the questions would stop". Then I am speechless as my typical saying is "There's no cure for Stupidity". But getting married is like a double whammy, that mean no more receiving "Free" money but it's squeezing out money from your blood cause the rule of the game is "As long as you're single, you can collect all the "free" money that you can but once you're married, it's your turn to vomit all the money that you have".
Remember the saying "You can run but you can't hide?" That goes for the Married folks as well. So what questions does the Married Folks faced??? Well, how about "When are you both planning for a Baby?" and if you already have a child, it'll be "SO when are you planning for Baby no. 2 or no.3?" and if your child is in school, it'll be "SO how did they do in school?" and that's when the whole question and answer game begin.So now, do I enjoy CNY as much? Well, let's say, I only miss the CNY goodies. I also discover that I have more relative that I thought I did...
I am also positive that I'm not the only one going through the questions and answers cause all my friends experienced that as well.Regardless, amidst the pain and agony, there's still tons of fun and laughers and again the super doper yummy CNY goodies. And I still wish I'm with my family. But I can visualise that if I'm in Singapore now, the questions would be "SO where is your husband?", "When are you having your Chinese Wedding Dinner", or even "SO when are you planning for a baby". Yah, my mom whom is my spokesperson now would have to deal with those Questions hahahahha
UPDATE - Final house inspection was completed yesterday and every thing went smoothly. However, the Closing is set on Friday at 3pm instead of Thursday as we were advised previously. Well, Day 2 of the New Year, still sounds good to me.
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