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Sunday, January 29, 2006
It's time to ramble about the Lunar New Year. It all started with a nice dinner at my grandma's, just the five of us, dad-mom-sis-grandma-i. and then the next day all it took was just two visits to other relatives' houses did i realize. i'm sick of the festivities! are you? and we SHOULDN'T be, right? i'm sick of having those big dinners where you sit around a great big table and stare at people whom you haven't met in the past decade. and then you have the 'oh you're so tall, oh you're so big now' which, trust me, never stops.
but really, i don't think this is an isolated circumstance which happens in our country alone; no, i actually think its becoming a worldwide phenomenon where youths are losing interest for and forgetting about traditional festivities. i mean let's face it; we were always forced into doing most of it; and half the time we're eyeing those red packets anyway. It's just like, how christmas is becoming somewhat of an anticlimax for me, so much so that this past christmas i was content to sit in my squashed up aisle seat on the plane watching movies for 14 hours. i mean, like what could beat 14 hours of movies on a plane? eating christmas dinner?!
So i really wondered if i'd ever pick my sorry ass up to go visit relatives when the time finally came. would i ever forgo visiting? don't get me wrong, i feel the need to be (pardon the cliche) 'in touch with my roots', but there's a certain point where its just not exciting me anymore. what's more, big dinners and visiting is UNHEALTHY for the modern man; saturated fats disguised as tarts, chinese food, and barbecued pork will most definitely kill you before you turn 50. think about how hard you'll have to work just to carve off the extra kilos.
the bottom line is, i think i'll just visit those people who are dearest to me, full stop. dinners have become so obligatory for a lot of extended families nowadays that you feel like ALL of you have been forced to come down. you have a few sulky faces and a few unwilling ones. and you try to be nice and approachable and chatty but all you get are the monosyllabics. maybe schools should start to really grade the moral education stuff, maybe then people will start realising and growing up? what's happening; because i'm not feeling much of the love anymore in my part of town...
but really, i don't think this is an isolated circumstance which happens in our country alone; no, i actually think its becoming a worldwide phenomenon where youths are losing interest for and forgetting about traditional festivities. i mean let's face it; we were always forced into doing most of it; and half the time we're eyeing those red packets anyway. It's just like, how christmas is becoming somewhat of an anticlimax for me, so much so that this past christmas i was content to sit in my squashed up aisle seat on the plane watching movies for 14 hours. i mean, like what could beat 14 hours of movies on a plane? eating christmas dinner?!
So i really wondered if i'd ever pick my sorry ass up to go visit relatives when the time finally came. would i ever forgo visiting? don't get me wrong, i feel the need to be (pardon the cliche) 'in touch with my roots', but there's a certain point where its just not exciting me anymore. what's more, big dinners and visiting is UNHEALTHY for the modern man; saturated fats disguised as tarts, chinese food, and barbecued pork will most definitely kill you before you turn 50. think about how hard you'll have to work just to carve off the extra kilos.
the bottom line is, i think i'll just visit those people who are dearest to me, full stop. dinners have become so obligatory for a lot of extended families nowadays that you feel like ALL of you have been forced to come down. you have a few sulky faces and a few unwilling ones. and you try to be nice and approachable and chatty but all you get are the monosyllabics. maybe schools should start to really grade the moral education stuff, maybe then people will start realising and growing up? what's happening; because i'm not feeling much of the love anymore in my part of town...
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