My CNY celebrations so far have been...uneventful.

Saturday was a mad rush of chionging homework before the New Year (or Niu Year, as everyone likes to call it. Cue lame laughter) started.

Sunday was the 除夕and by rights we should have eaten reunion dinner with my dad's side of the family, but one uncle couldn't make it back to Singapore in time for the dinner so we pushed it back to the next Sunday. We'll be having a buffet dinner then, awesome :D

So we ended up going to my maternal grandma's place for reunion dinner with my uncle's family instead. My mum and I reached there early to help out with the cooking, so I put on a random ratty old shirt plus jeans (because there is no point wearing nice clothes if you're going to dirty them while cooking). But my aunt was there already, so I just slacked around watching TV with two of my cousins.

Dinner was good. My mum was the chef, haha. Unfortunately for her, my grandma had also cooked food the night before, and my grandma's cooking pwns my mum's thanks to her 20 more years of experience. Poor Mummy.

Yesterday was 初一, so we visited my paternal grandma's place. My cousins were out visiting too, so I didn't really talk to them. We chionged out after an hour to go for our second reunion dinner at my maternal grandma's place - we have two because there's an 'official' reunion dinner on 除夕but normally only my uncle can make it (because he's the only son and my mum and aunts have to eat at their in-laws' place), so we have another unofficial one on 初一 when all my aunts are free to have dinner.

Steamboat yay :D My cousins are amusing. We had fake rubbery vegetarian abalone on the table and New Moon genuine abalone next to it. My aunt mentioned that the can of New Moon abalone was left over from last year's reunion dinner, so my 4th cousin dubbed it "Old Moon". When asked by my uncle what the fake abalone would be called, he shrugged and said "Fake Moon lor!"

We called the abalone(s) Fake Moon and Old Moon from then on. My cousin remarked that Old Moon tasted better and everyone else rolled their eyes at him. -.-

My cousin from NY applied for CAP! And she's a scenario writer too :D Literary people FTW :D

My uncle (Naziuncle*, yeah) decided to give everyone a Physics lesson while we were eating steamboat. So now we all know that the metal lump in the middle of the steamboat pot actually has a use. Lolol.

Yunling (the NY cousin) realised in the middle of the meal that we were the only ones among the 1st shift of eaters to still be eating during the 2nd shift (the table wasn't big enough to contain the whole family, so we took it in shifts to eat).

Naziuncle: *pretends to look shocked* Pig!
Me: Did someone say something? Couldn't quite hear that.
Yunling: Yeah. We went deaf.
Naziuncle: *a bit louder* Peeeeeeeeg.
Me: Nope, still couldn't hear it.
Naziuncle: *slowly gets louder* Pig. Pig. Pig.
Yunling: *scoops seafood from the pot and starts eating*
Me: WE DEVELOPED TEMPORARY DEAFNESS WOOHOO.
Naziuncle: PIG PIG PIG PIG PIG PIGGGGGGGGGGGGGG ~~~

He eventually gave up lolol. And we ate right to the end of the meal.

(* For non-regular readers of my blog, I call my uncle Naziuncle because he's my tuition teacher and gives lots of homework. He doesn't actually support Hitler. I think.)