Bear: Lets celebrate chinese new year here!
Syn: nah.. not the same. sigh.
Bear: Come on, we might as well, we'll invite the family over?
Syn: Hmm.
Bear: yes?
Syn: alright, if you want to celebrate it properly, first we have to do spring cleaning. That means vacuuming and cleaning the toilets and sorting out old clothes to give to charity and stuff. Then, everyone has to buy new clothes. Preferably red.
(Bear goes pale)
Syn: Then, the entire family has to meet on the eve of the new year to have dinner together, and the next three days are spent visiting all your relatives to eat a lot, get red packets of money, and fend off questions from nosy people about your path in life. You also have to visit friends to get money from their parents and sit around wearing red, fending off questions and eating stuff. And gambling. It is also important to visit my cousin, who makes the best pineapple tarts in the world.
Bear: This might be difficult, i thought it would just involve eating a lot.
Syn: There is that.
Bear: Lets just do that then?
Syn: Its not the same! *bawl*
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I was trying to keep a straight face while reading this at the office. My cheek muscles betrayed me.
Things that go BANG! We could go into Chinatown to watch things go bang.
Spring cleaning... hmmm... that might explain the sudden attack of cleaning I did on Saturday.
Red clothes. (checks cupboard) Nope. I have red swimmers if we go to a beach?
Bang. Yes. I really do miss being able to purchase explosives at the local milk bar.
I don't think I actually own any red item of clothing, but if we go to the beach I could become an attractive sun-ripened tomato red all over very quickly.
Casting another eyeball around the local group web (yikes, out of eyeballs....) leads me to beleive that if all the people missing CNY in S'pore could be gathered into one place, perhaps even with home-made bangs (or bright flashes, or bangs bought from where ever bangs are bought from this time of year (must be somewhere local!) ), and each given a coconut, they could perhaps be fooled into thinking it actually was CNY in S'pore.
The weather appears to be helping already.
I might be wrong, at the moment I am waaay out of calibration, but then that seems to be prevalent among the Local Group. Today was a Black Dog Day, so that may be it.
I'm confused. What's with the coconuts? And what's a black dog day?
was going to send you pineapple tarts made by my mother in law. they're wonderful. yummm... ate too many and now i'm coughing
but dont think it'll get through customs
Aww!
i think they Might get through, but its chancey. customs can be paranoid on occassion.
ok so no point sending you any. right?
might pop by sydney sometime during the year. maybe i'll try and sneak you some keuy lapis
grace
That's alright Gracie, I don't want you to risk customs searches just for me. But why are u coming to sydney? why do people come here? its so dull. Unless you like beaches of course. :) Go to new zealand! south island! the most beautiful place in the world (that i have ever seen)!
Don't listen to her Gracie. We have many good things in Sydney. We have beaches and a harbour and a big bridge. We're also a very clever country and we dig up stuff and sell it to other countries and make munny. And we're not that far away from New Zealand.
we might be going coz julian has a cousin there. plus he's never been there. i have and i know about the opera house. maybe i'll risk death and pay to climb the bridge and in the mean time give myself a heart attack.
but the real reason i'm going down under is to drag the husband to cairns before they do decide to close the reef
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