Being here is like being in a parallel universe..
Well, actually more like perpendicular.
I mean really.. you can't exactly say Canada or rather, North America is like Asia.
Celebrating CNY here just proves the perpendicularity that much more.
Back at home,
I usually sit for a 5-7 hour drive (depending on traffic) back to my hometown
Here, I really have no hometown to go back to. :C
(Or car T^T)
My family has/ have few "traditions"
On the eve of CNY,
We always have steam boat (hot pot)..twice! :D
Once at mom's side then at dad's side.
Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum YUM!
So, my sis and I tried to keep that tradition.
BUT!! We were both sick and had no mood to travel an hour + by bus to go there.
SO! We went to a mall.. D: and had pasta.
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| my fail attempt.. or maybe it's just tht she moved.. I'm not blur! |
On CNY day, my mom is crazy superstitious and makes us wear all red!
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| 2009 CNY, we don't look good but look how red we are! |
Over the years, it just becomes habitual..
So, I wore red.
Not so perpendicular for this, but oh well..
The whole point was to make it parallel anyway...
On new years eve we always wear new jammies!
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| All smiles |
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| but I actually felt like this.. |
We always sleep with our red packets under our pillows too,
But being here means we don't get no red packets!! :(
BOO!
Our house is ALWAYS spotlessly clean,
But it's quite impossible to have a clean house living with my sis so nope!
Perpendicular!
Another biggy on the perpendicularity is that!
Back home, I get a week off school!
Here, I have the same ol' darn classes..
For a University with such a huge Chinese population, they should REALLY give us at least a day off!
My Chinese class was cancelled though.. :)
During CNY, I meet up with relatives I don't even know and have huge gatherings.
CNY here is quiet, and just the two of us.
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| sis' attempt |
Anyways,
We went to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks (SO CUTE!!)
And besides form being sick, poor, with no other company,
It was a great day.
But.. seriously!
I can't wait to be back!
I am done living life at a 90 degree angle.
I wanna go homeeeeeeee....
Funny how when I was there, Canada was home,
And now that I'm here **** is home.
Sigh..
Guess the grass is always greener on the other side.
But in a literal sense,
It is greener here! :P
<3 恭喜发才
-Linnies-
