EPISODE TWENTY FIVE: HAEPY AZNCHYNIZ NIW YURR

Last night, there was a shitload of fireworks commemorating the Chinese New Year here...basically from 11.30-12.10 the air was filled with the smell and smoke of gunpowder and random flashes of light were seen in the horizon and fireworks closer by, sounding like a freaking battlefield - in other words, very loud (BANG BANG BANG). Man, some of the ones set off were really heavy duty (just as good as the government funded stuff in New Zealand). I wonder where all these fireworks came from since nobody sells them and fireworks are illegal. There was quite a lot...for something illegal. >.< There would probably have been more past 12.10 if it didn't start raining.

Today I went visiting peoples since it's Chinese New Year. I got like...lots of Red Packets with moneys inside them all! I got about $70 today. We visited, from the people I can remember:

My dad's mum's house.
My dad's sister's house.
My dad's other sister's house (my dad has 9 siblings o_O)
My dad's old classmate's house (also the first patient in my dad's clinic)
My sister's good friend
My sister's new Chinese teacher
Aunty Ong
Some random house with some woman from Guangdong, who gave me a Red Packet with a $5 note from Mainland China.

I think there were other people but I don't remember. Too many people. Garr. It was fun though, I went around in my new clothes and new shoes...mmm...new...and free food. I feel kinda skank actually getting all this stuff for free, but I suppose...

I wrote down notes for the photos I took in Taiwan just then, I have to write notes for all the memoirs and souveniers from Taiwan too, but I'll probably do that when I go back to New Zealand. The holidays, I feel them coming to a close! Another year ahead then.

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Hmm. One of my mum's friends who owns a game store (which we always get our games from) just came over - our first visitor. Which of course meant more eating. Chinese New Year has got to be a dieter's worst nightmare ^_^"