New Year indeed!
Jan 19, 2009 in General
Eric and I went off to the bank today to withdraw the cash and exchanged some a lot of new notes for the angpau packing. Before that we have been (and still are) doing a lot of shopping and stocking up, and for the first time in my life, I'm experiencing the blues of the Chinese New Year season.
Like, OMG why the hell does everything have to COST SO BLOODY MUCH these days?
So the list of angpau recipients goes on and on: unmarried cousins, check, unmarried friends, check, cousins' and siblings' children, check, parents and godparents, check, the family helps, check, employees, check, additional stand-bys for the just in cases, check.
I thought giving out angpaus during the wedding was dehydrating, this, this whole Chinese New Year stock up business is absolutely burning holes in our pockets. OMG~~
And then there's more, my mom has been bugging me to buy the standard CNY stuff to 'stock' at home. She goes, 'Get your hou-si (dried oysters), and the chicken and pork to put into the freezer, you need not only the lo-kam (mandarin oranges) but you also need other stuff like the fatt choy (just in case you need to cook something), and then make sure your rice pot is filled to the brim.' So yah, as month four of being married kicks in, I'm dreading the higher prices to pay already.