all in red

one more week and the year of the water snake beckons.
but i am not really feeling any excitement this year. we are not allowed to put up any cny decorations at home because of some chinese taboo saying that we are not to celebrate any festivals since my grandma had passed away for less than a year.

i am not in the mood to buy any new clothes as well. i do have a new dress which i haven't worn yet, but it is in black and white. i don't think it will be auspicious to wear that for chinese new year when everything that you do has to bring some luck to the house.
i do have 2 new tee-shirts, so those will be new clothes and of course there are no new skirts or pants to pair them with. it will be old and new combo.
oh, but i do have an auspicious lucky red bag and it is brand new!  it is coach's legacy shoulder bag. so that bag will bring in lots of luck for sure.
oh oh, i do have a pair of red shoes too. waaa......another something to bring in more luck!!!! and it is also brand new with some jewels as well.
gosh, come to think of it, almost everything new i have is red. one of those new tee shirts is in.......hahahah.......of course, RED! i will be like a walking red lantern if i put all my red stuff together. red shoes, red bag and red shirt. aarrrghhhh!!!
oh well, i will think of what to wear when i get the permission to celebrate the new year after our special prayer session for grandma's death anniversary which i heard will be done on the first day of the chinese lunar calendar itself.

well, it is one more week at work and then it will be another week off. can't wait. am i going to bring back some books to mark during that holiday week? hahah.....that will really bad luck eh. but i don't think i can finish marking all books!!! arrrgghh.......!!!
book in cantonese is read in a way that it sounded like 'lose'. hence it is a no-no to touch any book or have any book around when you gamble.

i have got 2 chinese new year card so far, not counting the one sent by the house developer. will i get more??

one of the cards came with a box of ferroro rocher chocolates. very generous indeed. and i also got some chocolates from switzerland. woohoooo....i love my lindt.

it had been a week of accepting. tuesday's dinner was also sent to the house by a 14-year-old who just wanted to buy me my dinner. so sweet. and even told me to set a reminder in my phone a day before so i wouldn't forget.

it was also a very very very hot day in terms of the weather. the sky was void of clouds every afternoon and there was no rain as well. the craving for something cold came everyday despite knowing that it was not good for health.

but on thursday, after a game of basketball where i was challenged by kid to play with him, sent me straight to the shaved ice stall in town. aarrghh......just look at that bowl of deliciously tempting shaved iced topped with jellies and drowned in orange juice. cooling!!!

i have also had ice-cream two days in a row. yesterday, i got some ice-cream at the petrol station. the one above was brought by my brother from the ice-cream man who came around the neighbourhood on his motorbike. that reminded me of back in the olden times when we were still young. all those tinkling of the bells were much awaited in the afternoon and evening. be it the roti man, ice-cream man or chi cheong fun man, it was always a joy to be able to stop them. hahahaha.

the kitchen at home was also quite busy with a little chinese new year preparations. cookies had to be baked to serve visiting guests and i am not involved. hahaha...phew! yes, i am lazy.
it was muruku making session in the photo above.

i love my bag! okok....i was just trying to show the 4 colours of sports houses we have- yellow, red, blue and green. it was the cross-country competition yesterday, saturday. it is the first year i am in red house and i was really dreading it since red had been on a losing streak in the past few years. from a winning house, i was sent to a losing house. it took so much psyching up on my side to make me prepare my role in the new house. many kids were devastated to hear that i had left green and even wanted to follow me to red. too bad, only the teachers were all changed and not the kids.

well, in the end, red did not do too badly albeit the not so good attendance. we still managed to clinch the second place and the mark difference was only 34! how my heart ached. i really want to kick those absentees' asses!!! will do so tomorrow. someone has to be the bad person to teach them a lesson.