All is Well

Back from Ipoh, my parents' hometown.

It was nice catching up with some of the cousins. In fact half of them from my mum's side are working in KL. But we don't really call or communicate much until this annual event when everyone goes back to have the reunion dinner. My dad's side? I only see them like 4 to 5 times in a decade.

Then you get the whole aunty interrogation process with the typical question of whether you have a boyfriend, or does the younger brother has a girlfriend, or how skinny or prettier you have become or how your mum has put on weight or if you're working yet (?!!) and bla bla bla.

It's an annual thing. Quite fun actually. In fact, I looked forward to it this year LOL! The eagerness in their eyes when you got something to tell them especially if it has to do with relationships. I don't know whether they're just plain happy to hear it or they're just plain nosy. And it's even more interesting when you tell them that the mum hasn't been officially informed...yet.You should see their faces. Most amusing.

Which reminds me, one of my younger college-going cousin gave a really good answer when he was bombarded with the question "where is your other half?" - "I'm perfect and whole."

Spent the rest of the days either eating, visiting relatives and vice versa, watching DVDs and getting sick (hope it's not an annual thing for me. I got sick last year too). The weather in Ipoh for some strange reason is warmer than in KL. I got sick on the first day of CNY with a really bad case of runny and blocked nose, and later sorethroat. The "blockage" was so bad, that I got a migraine the next day(I'm thinking lack of oxygen). Drank loads of water, "cooling" tea and coconut water but to no avail. I didn't even feel cold. Sinus?

Anyway, feeling better now that I'm back in KL and in my own room. I'm saying that because for the past few days I have been sleeping on thin mattress on a hard wooden bed frame. Ergh.

All in all, this year's CNY wasn't too bad. Rather nice (surprisingly. It's usually a bore) and it went past just like that. Tomorrow I start work. But looking forward to the coming mahjong session LOL!