on the morning of the first day of lunar new year, i woke up at the unearthly hour of 6.30am , had a one hour shower and went to food dist. I could't believe the amount of stuff they were giving the old folks. each person recieved two big bags full of stuff like toilet paper, soy sauce, salt, soft drinks, maggi mee, 3 jars of new year goodies, lots of caned food. it's unhelthy but who cares as it's new year. unlike normal saturdays where the old folk came down to the void deck to collect the stuff, we delivered the goods to the doorstep of every receipient. i went with xinying whose arm almost broke due to the unbelievable weight of canned food. even my fingers almost broke. i couldn't carry more than two bags in one hand. (normally i'm cool with four)
after food dist, i proceeded to my grandmother's house to get hongbao money.
new year is just great. you get to have both money and good food. although the angbao harvest isn't as good this year as in previous years, i'm thankful. I tried to sneak angbaos meant for my absent sister but my mummy strangled them out of me. damn. i was hoping i could have double happiness this year by taking adela's angbaos. now i console myself with the thought that she is facing starvation down under as her homestay auntie's cooking tastes like crap and she has no momey to but good food.
the food this year is as superb as it has always been. teochew people(father's side) make good yusheng and cantonese(me mummy's side) make good vegetarian dishes and tidbits. yesterday, i went to some relatives house where i had tidbits for lunch. stuffing things like bakwa, egg rolls and assorted junk into my mouth. i never thought that you could make a meal of such things.