Monday, January 26, 2004

LiFe oF gUohU|...cHp 18

hi to all... it has been a long time since i blogged... been really bz as of late. but here i m todae... yeah... itz 4 daes past the chinese new yr and here i m, back in sg at last...hmm... this yr, i went to malaysia to celebrate this festive occasion, at the same time, visit my father's ( or was it my grandfather's i 4got le ...lol) hometown in malaysia..hmmm it was quite a fair bit of discovery for me as well as forging many many many memories....

as i woke up on the first dae of new yr...hmmm tt is so interesting. it was actually my cousin who woke me up... i haven seen her for two yrs le... coz we live distances apart ( n i mean countries apart)... at first i dun really recognise her...it was lyk gosh, who in the world is this gorgeous lady waking me up? m i in dreamland or something...lol... she pinch me on teh cheek. ouch, tt hurts... okie, i m nt in dreamland... so is tt suppose to be real? lol... i rub my eyes only to recognise tt she was my cousin sia... my gosh, she really change a lot in this 2 yrs...nu da si ba bian ba...lol...okie, she was nt the cute little ger she used to be... she had grown much more gorgeous than before, and cuter...lol...( hey, wad was i tinkin? she is my cousin...lol)haiz.. too bad she is my cousin, or i confirm jio her sia...lol...okie, let me carry on, promptly, the lion troupe arrive..( cmon la, this is malaysia, and we are living in terrance hse, therefore can afford to hire lion troupe as there is enuf land space. not lyk in singapore)...hmmm nt bad sia, got personalize lion dance in the hse...lol... it juz do the normal "dancing???" and arrange a formation of words out of mandarin orange on the floor...hmmm..interesting... after which i went for breakfast...guess wad i had? rice dumpling??? lol... thought u suppose to eat tt during dumpling festival... my grandma sae dumpling means "bao zhong " in cantonese... tt mean sure strike..so i guess i have to eat la...wad a strange combi... my first time eatin chinese new yr rice dumpling... or izzit she lazy to cook...lol... make a guess how big is the family? lets see... excluding adults, the children( or i prefer to sae the younger generation..coz i dun wanna c myself as children...) total strength is 14!!!!! ( tt includes me... lol...lets see, we define children as 17yrs old and below... the age diff is 1 yr apart for all and there is a twins...lol..so make a guess... la la la)... we den chat as 1 big family with more than 20 of us in teh living room... thank goodness tt we are nt in sg... no living capacity for all, den go out eat oso got problem sia...had lunch at 1pm... went to the beach and went round kuantan to take photo...lol... as u make guess,i m always with my 2 cousins, jie ying and jie fang, (both young and older than me by 1 yr respectively) coz our age diff not tt big, same ideology oso...lol..had a great time chatting bt our lives and stuff... went back at ard 6pm... i had to wait damn long juz to take a shower despite having 3 washroom...arhz.. tt is the bad pt of having a big family..but dinner time and post dinner activities were fun... the usual chattin was neva the same...everyone juz sat in teh living room and tok anithing under teh sun...lol...
i m luving thise warm feeling of warmth

on the second dae of new yr..hmm...had a buffet style breakfast in the hse... with all teh wonderful CNY cookies and sort, cheesecakes, choc cake etc etc and on... i luv the food... and they are all homemade...tt is lyk so woooh...after teh breakfast, we idle for awhile, waiting for everyone else to change up..lol.. tt another prob of big family...we went to my family hometown, tt is whr the world largest tin mine is located..( but my family got nthin to do with tt...duhz)... it was once the most develop town at the time when tin mining prospects were popular but now it is juz a shanty town... tt is whr my father and all my uncles and aunts dwell before shifting to the current hse tt we gather todae when they were young.... as we went into the town..everything look so ancient, lyk post ww2 tt type of scenario... as we move deeper into the town whr my grandma's sister still lives...can u imagine 5 cars movin into the shanty town lyk tourist attraction or something... tt is sure a funy sight..lol... at whr my grandma'sis ( or was it her cousin or wad i 4got le), we stop...inside already got so many ppl... lyk a open hse in the shanty town???? lol... almost all are related to me one way or another...i suddenly have so many relative...lol..all i duno one... i suddenly noe tt i got a lot of cousins other than the other 13 i noe...lol... as i move abt in the hse. suddenly itz lyk so many ppl noes hu i m but i duno hu they are, all commenting how much i have grown,ask whether i m married ????( duhz...i m only 17 tiz yr, they tink is the olden daes when ppl married tt early), how many children i have...lol.... n i hate to repeat tt i m still single...( or i m still a virgin?? duhz)...lol... same goes for my 2 cousin...feeling kinda of out of place, we 3 decided to take a walk ard teh area....hmmm... it looks so forested...la la la...m i m the only male ard..lots...being a npcc cadet..lalala...nth la..juz crapping...we walk to whr my father used to live as a child, the 5 fish farms still exist, home to thousandse of fish...lol...we juz chat ard...had a lot to catch up with mu cousin sia...den we headed back to the hse, the family den move on to other relatvie hse... i carn even name them... duno one...but they have my baby fotos sia... again commentin on how much i had grown and change...lol... tt how the dae goes...n one discovery i found is tt despite how shanty the town is, i still found presense of PS 2 and P4 computer complete with LCD screen!!! n the plasma tv lies in teh living room....tt is lyk so damn dotz... times change.... lol...

on the 3rd dae, i woke up at 3.35am in the morning... purpose: to scale bukit lembing to see teh sunrise...lohz... aniwae, my cousins and i are cranky enuf to do so... we woke up at 3.45 am and get ready to hike up bukit lembing... though it is nt that high up, the terrain in pretty steep...n guess wad, i m the only male ard... lol...okie, if u wannd include my uncle the driver la, but he neva went up with us...lol...the three of us went up at bt 5am, reaching at bt 6.15am... okie, tt doesn't seem too difficult...aniwae, i m quite used to it le... the 3 of us reach teh peak at ard 6.15am... as teh sky is still dark, we juz lie down on teh ground, on canvas sheets and glazed at the stars above us... tt is truely a lovely experience... it is not everydae tt u get to glaze at the stars in the city... it is truely a memorable and breathe taking sight, wad's more i have the company of 2 pretty ladies...lol... juz before the sky begin to brighten up, all we could observe were mist... u can feel and really see teh mist below us.... as the sky turns brighter, i took snapshots of teh sun... it is magnificient...truely.... the sky gets brighten by the second, before you noe it, it is already risen... the mist below us den slowly began to disperse and slowly, the bird eye view of teh sleepy town of lembing surface before your very eyes... it is really a magical sight... wonderful moment... obviously i capture the moment with teh camera la...lol... we den descend... only to find out uncle waiting for us...we went for breakfast at a nearby coffeeshop... after visiting a nearby relative tt again i dun recognise by they recognise me, we headed home... afer changing up, we set off again as a family to 3 open hses...tt means 3 buffet lunch are awaiting us... again visting the relative that i dun remember but noe me... i could only smiled in reply and crap with them...lol....tt settles it and the whole afternoon was gone again...evening time, jie fang asked me out for a walk ard teh neighbourhood and i obliged to tt.. the two of us explore the area, yet in teh meantime confidenting in each other... we went back at dinner time...

okie, i shall continue the 3rd dae on another entry tml le...now tired le..lol...slp time

guohuilist turned back time on Monday, January 26, 2004.

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