Parallel Universe

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.

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! 

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!

All smiles

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.

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-