The season to get rich & fat

Yes! The lunar new year! The time to feast on good food and new year goodies, gather with family and relatives whom I only see perhaps once every year and collect ang baos - only the privileged-singles like ME!!! Wahaha:) It was the usual steamboat for reunion dinner on the eve...tasty yet not oily, I like!

CNY was as per every year...visited my grandma's place on the first day and spent the rest of my day there. I went "happy new year" & "gong xi fa cai" the whole day to people I meet. Well, realised my socializing skills isn't all that good when I was asked to entertain one of my aunt's colleague. I was like: "Erhh...hi, so you were from the University of Philippines. I'm currently in my Uni course as well... ..." Then what followed was just us staring at the television. Haha, I'm not too friendly when it comes to strangers huh? It all depends on my mood...if I'm chatty that day, I can go on blabbering non stop and coming up with lotsa topics, but if I'm not, it'll just be like what happened - awkward silence.

The next realisation this CNY was...think twice before having kids! Oh my goodness, they can be real angels one moment & complete devils the next. *Phew* I was so drained trying to handle my 5 year old cousin and fretting over the other "little devils" running around the house. Madness! And what's the whole point of having to endure the pain and suffering for 9 months of child bearing, years of hardship for child rearing...in exchange for a sheer reduction of personal time & space, lost of feminine curves and lots of 'blood-vomitting'. My mum always tells me, "Your kids will take care of you in old age." Well, the truth, harsh as it is: There's no guarantee that the child will express gratitude by taking care of us when we're old & sickly. Just pray hard we won't get abandoned in the old age home and left to die. *Ponder ponder* At least, I'll never mistreat my parents this way.

To my horror, this question came earlier than I expected. My aunties were asking me about when I'm getting a boyfriend! Things like: "Got boyfriend already not? Got must bring for us to see ok?", "Uni should be quite easy to get boyfriend what." and "Thought about getting a future partner already?" *Gawd* Isn't that too early? Ok, maybe getting a boyfriend isn't too early, but I was telling them frankly...NTU guys can't really make it. It's not that I'm implying that I'm too good for them or anything of that sort and I know it's a sweeping statement. I'm not super good myself either. I can only reply: "I haven't met the one:)" And it's not as if you can really "find" the one! Let nature take its course. Perhaps somebody'll come along and sweep me off my feet and tada! I'm attached! *Laughs* Let me calculate what's the probability~(typical engineering student)...1 in a million? Hahaha! I always remember what sis mentioned when she came to NTU..she said, "Jie, now I know why you're still single." *Implications...implications* Hmm, staying single isn't all that bad either..freedom, personal space, collecting ang baos during CNY! *LOL*

So much for the start of CNY. 15 days of CNY but school opens today. *Yawn* FYP's giving me a headache again.