CNY lessons
5 Chinese New Year Lessons
1. If you’re not flying, start driving back to your hometown at least 6 hours before New Year’s Eve if you want to make it to the reunion dinner, minus the post-traffic-jam battleworn look.
2. Indian Penang-ites* can speak Hokkien* better than my parents do. o_O
3. Porcelain and glassware can be the scariest things to approach in your superstitious grandparents home.
4. SPM ENGL1119 = English Lvl 20
TOEFL = English Lvl 99
5. You can win any movie marathon with Korean drama.
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Glossary:
1. Penang-ite: [noun, slang] Someone from/who permanently resides in Penang.
2. Hokkien: [noun] Chinese dialect. Versatile in crude blessings.
For number 1: memang laaaaaaa…. everyone knows what a terror our highways can be during public hols kan.
bodicea: I didn’t expect people to start driving at evening/night…when it’s actually just 4 hrs away from KL (max) o_O
Posted 1 year, 4 months agoI guess the jam is a festively occurance
I think if you are going back to Penang 6 is not enough as the last I heard it was 5 and a half hours just to reach
By the way Happy Chinese New Year to you
bodicea: I kinda regret not listening to my dad saying that it’s important to leave in the evening, on the day before CNY eve.
And Merry Pig Year to you too
Posted 1 year, 4 months agoI drove on Sunday to Ipoh, and to KL today. Clear road beb, can do 200
bodicea: Jealousness. Patutlah. Sunday mar. Ppl busy celebrating in hometown adi. Lambat la u
Posted 1 year, 4 months agoI was talking about point number 5 with my friend’s grandmother quite recently debating on how Korean dramas have this tenancy to put the main character into the worst possible situation ever to being caught in the inevitable love triangle to being hit by some terminal disease that even the top doctors in the nation are baffle by it.
In the end, we decided to switch channel and watch the news and talk about the current toll rates.
I got a ang pow for keeping grandma company by her parents. Hehe ^^*
bodicea: lol. especially about the “the worst possible situation ever to being caught in the inevitable love triangle to being hit by some terminal disease that even the top doctors in the nation are baffle by it.”
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago