New Year indeed!
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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. 
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January 19, 2009 at 6:57 pm
more to come my fren… hang on there…
January 20, 2009 at 11:22 am
Welcome to our world of “When Mars and Venus collides”
Of course the most painful part is to give away “Ang Pows” but my dear hubby reminded me “God loves a cheerful giver” and “It is better to give than to recieve”.
Have a blessed CNY!
January 20, 2009 at 11:42 am
satu lagi projek BN
January 21, 2009 at 7:50 am
bwahhahaha
it’s not all roses eh?
January 21, 2009 at 11:05 am
Now we know what our parents went through, hor? Wait till you get your own children. Then lagi banyak things to buy and stock up