My family tradition is to meet up with dad side family on the first day, spent a night at big uncle house because we gotta pray and cooked for ancestors. I guess this is the tradition for “Kuang Xi” people to pray their ancestors on the second day of cny. As we were having the reunion dinner, dad proposed the plan of leaving the house at 8am tomorrow. Non of the children would take that seriously because we all know that it’s impossible for parents to get ready by the early hour. Still, I woke up at 7.15am to check out, to avoid being scold on the first day of cny in case they really managed to make it. But then, hmmm~ yes, non of them were awake so I turn back to bed again :p
Around 9am, I woke up again and being informed by sis that my 舅舅 and family and三姨 were taking lunch with us before we hit the road. Well, I’m so ok with it because it’s like a yearly thing that my dad would cook 10 dishes that could be kept for a week because it was too much food. As usual, we had great time sharing jokes and chit-chatting and cam-whoring. Yes, you can see that my whole family has great relationship with them because they are really nice people and playful. We have no worries to say anything we want, we criticize, we scold, we advice, we praise, we teach, we laugh to each other. And this is what I see as a family. Even the far-related relatives, they are sincere in appreciating us for paying them a visit at least once a year. Even though we are not closed with them but they still could give me a feeling of big family bonding.
Somehow, the same story doesn’t apply to the father side family. Most of them are impolite, hidung ter-tinggi and the children of them also learning what the adults are behaving. They might be chit-chatting and laughing in front of you, but you know that they’re talking back at you too. I’m referring this to the 大伯 family only. I’m fine with 二伯 and 三伯 because we always stay in their houses whenever we go to Singapore. They’re sincere enough. Talking about all the brothers, 五叔 is good, cute and responsible man, but I don’t really like his wife. She’s a good mom but definitely a fake person. I remembered when I was still a kid, I overheard she talked to大伯’s daughter bout the bad of my family. Second hating-story, sis was still a kid and she was wondering the ability of the fishes in the aquarium whether they eat people like the one in the horror moive. The fake lady laughed and asked sis to put her fingers in it to test whether it bites or not. Now, my family definitely became richer now and they still at the same financial stage like 10 years ago. I’m not teasing them for being poor like old time or insulting them at all. I’m not humble in admitting that we’re richer than them because I don’t need to deny bout it at all, you can see it by your eyes. What I’m trying to emphasize here is the fact that my family has got richer nowadays and they still not there yet. Because of this reason, they think that we are like billionaires when they came to my open house 2 years ago. Although my house is just a normal semi-D in KL, not superb spacious like how they described. They must be thinking that to own such a big house in the insufficient land of Kl city must be a billionaire. So the next time when we went to their house, her attitude to us changed dramatically, and 180oC. Her tone was superb polite and she was treating us like Prime minister. Sigh~ faker, you really don’t need to do all these nuts and silly act. Though we’re living in a better house, higher standard of living, it doesn’t mean that we’ll feel hard or irritating to stay in your house. We’ve been through the poverty, we know how is it like and we never forgot, so that we won’t let ourselves to go back to that stage again. FYI, I’m really feeling comfy even I’m in a wooden house. Believe it or not, I don’t really mind what’s in your head. Yes, I’m mean to you guys too. I said Hi and smile broadly, but I actually don’t mean it (:
Alright, I know I promised not to bitch bout others anymore. But I didn’t bitch bout them this year, All these were bitched last year and I’m just writing it here to keep you guys immortal with the real attitude you’re behaving from 10 years ago till now.
