chinese new year!

it's CNY! the time to feast and collect angpows, haha which indirectly means the number on the weighing scale increasing together with the amount in your bank! correlation, you call it? and those girls in school would start worrying about the taking of height and weight when school reopens. hahaha! luckily i'm no longer under the scrutiny of the PE teachers. means i got to be more disciplined on my part to go running. ;p okay i shall go tomorrow evening! speaking of which, i'm still not sure if we could go back for x-country since we're not alumni members. hmph!

anyway, CNY celebrations are more or less the same every year. it's starts to get a bit bland and boring as we grow older, and it's just the gathering of family members and uh, some politics going around. to me, i think it's a time to see how much the people around me have grown, in every sense. it just shows the true colours of some people, how uncivilised and incorrigible some people have grown into. oh wells, it's new year afterall and there's really nothing much you can do about it other than try to prevent unhappiness from evolving.

on a brighter note, it's a nice time to play with the little ones. two newer members in the family since one or two years ago have grown so fast! now they're able to chase after you and uh, in a way, communicate with the few vocabs that they know. it's nice seeing some childlike innocence after so long, after talking and dealing with grown-ups who would judge the way you behave. and i'm truly amazed at how each child is born with a different set of values and character traits. even a two-year-old can display such high levels of intelligence, something which is unseen in another eight-year-old. i've come to realise that parenting is really tough and as a result, some resolutions have been made on my part.