5 minutes on the clock away from the end of the working day. Doesn’t feel too desperate today as I already know that I will be staying back to go to a gym near my office afterwards.
Some teams on the same floor have started to decorate their departmental spaces with Chinese New Year decorations. Lanterns, Fire crackers, Ang pows, art works, things of the sorts.
A couple of my friends have talked about CNY not being especially engaging this year, about everything seems to arrive so fast this year that the mood seems to be a little difficult to get into. Since the fireworks are banned (for some reason especially for CNY) and no travelling plans insight any time soon, CNY is just another word for boring family reunion. I don’t mean family reunions are boring, I mean it’s a boring CNY with not much going on.
There’s plan for my family to go down to Johor to meet the rest of my father’s family as it has for the previous years. The driving distance from where I stay now and where the reunion is involves a driving distance of about 6 hours, in safe speed. In the recent years the reunion has been relatively quiet since my grandmother passed away a number of years ago. Every family has their fair share of issues and eventually it kinda affected some of the relationships in the families due to conflict of interests. Anyway, what’s most important is that everyone is happy to meet everyone during that reunion. For some of us cousins we only get to see each other once a year and this is the time, I especially miss the cousins.
Had a plan to stay back in KL and earn myself some extra income in the CNY public holiday. The company pays handsomely for 3 times the normal salary for staffs that comes back during CNY. Too bad my parents were quite upset of me thinking about not wanting to go my dad’s hometown. In the old tradition the whole family has to go back to the home of the eldest family member. In this case it’s my eldest uncle’s home in Kulai Johor. Man… long… way…
Oh well, so it’s decided that I’d be taking 2 and a half days off for CNY. Earn about 1k less in the next month so that I can be back to my dad’s home town for the reunion dinner… geez I’m really short on cash now. I think my dad seems to have forgotten that it was the same thing that he has done back in his younger days where work comes first. I dun blame him, just that he should have understood better that I am trying to earn my own living.
Gonna be here for the next 2 hours until a colleague finishes her work. She’s invited me to join her gym session today. I guess everyone is more motivated when there’s someone you know working out with you. Not entirely true for me but It’s always nice to have someone familiar roaming about.
Hoping that the rain doesn’t fall. The sky’s looking gloomy. Yikes.
I’ve missing quite a number of friends lately. Some of those that I used to like but hardly talk to. Just to mention a couple:
One has married to a Kiwi and is now rooted in New Zealand, last time I checked they were living happily ever after. One brilliant girl she was. I bet lots of professors’ hearts were broken when she told them they were getting married and is not going to continue with her studies. Haha. Kudos.
This one girl now working as an accountant in Singapore. Still keeping in touch on facebook but it’s getting difficult to get her out for a casual movie date or a casual hang out day. She’s been so busy that 24 hours barely seem enough nowadays. Nice fella she is and hopes her days turned out ok as she’s got some pretty bad encounters in China. Glad that things turned out well and good lessons learned. Hope things turn for the better, and her recent promotion is definitely one step forward. She’s gonna have a strong career there’s no doubt about it. Miss her lots. Hard to find a good hang out kaki nowadays.
Oh well, maybe it’s just the time of the year and the notion of “going home” that’s making me thinking all these. I was born and grown up in the city, it’s impossible for me to stay in the country side and do nothing for more than a couple of days. I’d die of thirst for information. Maybe I really should consider getting myself a smarter phone (I already own a smart phone) just to save my life.
Bah. Maybe next time.
Signing off.
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