One less banana...

HAPPY BELATED CHINESE NEW YEAR everyone! :)
*Sorry this is way past its due date.

First off, i'd like to give thanks to those people who made the new 'it' word/phrase/annoying word for this season: "Have an Oxpicious New Year!" Uh-huh.

Anyways, every CNY my family gathers some place with my dad's side of the family for a reunion dinner the night before CNY! This time it was at my uncle's place,

and also this time the food was good,

and again, this time much of it was in Chinese!

There were 3 of us this time (the maid doesn't count) instead of the usual 4. Weird, but it didn't really get to me.. Until after there was nothing left to stuff into my mouth to postpone the inevitable missing conversation.

It was especially weird for me this year because my un-Cinafied-banana-of-a-brother was missing. We were yellow on the outside, white on the inside - the "odd-ones-out" who found solace in each other's inability to speak Chinese! :P


But after chowing down, the main event of the night began!
Haha, even my brother participated via Skype.. a process whereby my Dad showed my brother his hand and then played on his behalf. He won more than me though!! Haha, oh well :)

This was just the beginning...

...And it ended even better!

And that was pretty much the flow of my first two days of CNY '09!

Seriously, who comes up with this stuff?!

Wow, people obviously think. A LOT. But what are they actually thinking about? And when? who? how?

Those are the questions i'd like answered when i find out which person(s) figured this out:

Is this your handphone number?

1) Key-in the first 3 digits of your handphone number (not the 01x number) into the calculator
2) multiply by 80
3) add 1
4) multiply by 250
5) plus last four digits of phone number
6) plus last four digits of phone number again
7) minus 250
8) Finally, divide by 2

Wow. It works.. Imagine, a group of nerds all in their 30s huddled in their parents' basement surrounded by gadgets and junk thinking of nothing but math equations to problems that don't need solving..

uh-huh.

Back for Long!

I know i know! Where have I BEEN FOR THE PAST 3 MONTHS?!!

Well, in short, i've been busy wrapping up last semester, Fall '08, which went pretty well save for Public Speaking (gah @ BA!); getting into heaps of trouble, didn't really learn from my mistakes initially (although i have now) - remember, ALWAYS tell the truth!; having my bro back home for a month (yay); working at Louis Vuitton (again) for a couple of weeks; and well, its the freaking New Year already!

Most importantly, glad to say that things with A have been mainly on the upside - Officially Complicated has become Officially Amazing! :D

Like I said, its been amazing with her..
But that deserves an entirely different story by itself :P

And besides, I've been motivated to restart this thing, and i will. So there'll be not much sappy re-caps.. and onto the future!

Good to be back.