Saturday, February 16, 2008
Teck Hui's entry
Before Chinese New Year, there was a belief that if u stayed up late after the stroke of midnight, you could prolong your parents' lifespan. So, that is what I did at the eve of Chinese New Year although my parents said that it would shorten our lifespan because we need at least 8 hours of sleep each day. On the first day of Chinese New Year, my parents told my sister and I to accompany them to our grandparents' house at 10am in the morning but my sister and I were reluctant and were moody all the way throughout the bus trip but we were lucky not to be scolded because most Chinese would refrain from shouting during Chinese New Year. When we reached, we were at odds with our parents which lead to many squabbles and my father even threatened to cane us which at last led to our good behaviour. Over the other days of Chinese New Year, we were polite and often spoke with courtesy unlike how we dealt with our parents which improved our relationship with our relatives and many of them praised us. However, although our relations with our relatives improved, our relations with our parents worsened. Until my sister and I were tired of quarreling and decided to make peace with our parents thus reliving the dispute. So, after that was settled, my sister and I finally got to enjoy our Chinese New Year and spent the few days celebrating happily.
Jess and his family spent Easter not quite happy because compared to my celebration, they had to endure Ellie's and Brenda's vanity and hope to be viewed by many people in their opinion for them to be jealous and when Jess wanted Leslie to go to the church with them, his mother was reluctant as she did not want their family to be disgraced by her while my family would have preferred me to celebrate a festival with my friends in hope that I would not be as antisocial as my primary school years. Anyway, Jess goes to a chruch as he is a Christian while I don't go anywhere as I am a freethinker.
#* The Festives *# 9:23 PM
