DRT 74 : Everything Lunar New Year!

[strong isle]

Did you know...

IIRC, this CNY tradition to 'Lou Sang' is started in Malaysia

[zenith veldt]

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Life Hack: If you had a ROM without ceremony, your relatives might still give you 🧧

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OH WHAT

[smoky idol]

Personally I dislike CNY

Too much to deal with

But I like mandarin oranges and dried meat

[autumn escarp]

I never got the cleaning is bad feng shui thing

[strong isle]

er im not sure

i think you just canot SWEEP the floor on the first day of CY

CNY

i think you can do the rest?

[twin gorge]

What's ROM

[twin gorge]

I like mandarin oranges

[zenith veldt]

registration of marriage

[twin gorge]

I hate how packed the mall is all the time before CNY

I just wasted a lot of time trying to find parking to go to work

[twin gorge]

Ooh

You get angpaos for that?

[winged hawk]

just had my annual... lunch? today

[strong isle]

did you guys say those four worded uhm.. sayings, as you did the lou sang

like

'sang yi heng long'

or

'dai ga fu guai'

[winged hawk]

yes... and im the one shout the loudest😅

[strong isle]

HUAT AH

[dull stag]

If u dont get married, you can get angpao FOREVER?🤭

[strong isle]

HAHA some relatives wont give you if they deem you're too old to get one even if ure not married yet T_T

[smoky idol]

You must always be ready to say Sui Sui Ping An 嵗嵗平安 in case you break anything

[hoary prairie]

@winged hawk friendly advice please Remember...

don't overdo it with spicy foods, lucky you if you have a fireproof tongue👅💪

[dull stag]

Then i just be like: why? Too poor to give ah?

Remember!
Hurting elders pride is always more damaging for them than hurting their wallet😈

[tardy quartz]

my cny struggles is remember all the names of all the aunties and uncles

after 21 years still cant remember all of them 😭

[strong isle]

this is me all the time because i like spicy food T_T

i didnt know that yo uguys have to remember those auntie uncle ranks

likeee

YI MA

or

soemthing more complicated idk

[strong isle]

eh i also didnt know this was a thing until today!

means i can break something??? and just get away with it right

:D

[winged hawk]

i only encounter this once... it is a spicy noodle at johor

[winged hawk]

i look at the relative, i turn to my mom : what should call him/her?

[winged hawk]

because sui sui(岁岁) in chinese is the same pronunciation as the adjective of breaking stuff sui (碎)

[dull stag]

SSAME

[tardy quartz]

my mum always tell me to go 'call people' but she never tells me what to call them so i just stare at them

[dull stag]

at this point i just say: hiii gong xi fa cai

[tardy quartz]

so true

[dull stag]

mhmm

[strong isle]

my mum just tells me 'if you dont know what to call them , just smile and say HELLO'

and tahts what i do XD

[strong isle]

nuuu i cant read T_T

[zenith veldt]

DRT 74 : Everything Lunar New Year!

[winged hawk]

the thing about me in KL, everybody ask if im balik kampung... well... i am living in my kampung(mother side) right now (my family lives in JB now, so they thought my kampung is over there at Johor)

[smoky idol]

Assuming hometown is where family is, if my family is all over the place, do I still have a place to call home?

I was pointed out by my friend yesterday that I have the option to not go anywhere for CNY, since I don't feel like I belong to anywhere

[winged hawk]

sudden existential crisis

[winged hawk]

not wrong...

[smoky idol]

But it felt so wrong not going anywhere, but it still feel like I don't belong

Feels bad being the eldest of the youngest generation of both family, sorry if I sully the mood for CNY but I really dislike it

Except the food

[winged hawk]

iso k~

people have different view on things, that is what makes this world interesting

[smoky idol]

As for angpow, I have mastered the craft of making relatives happy using words

This is the world of survival

[strong isle]

Stay strong 🥺 we'll see you in a few days fam

[strong isle]

I also thought your hometown is in Johor

I always thought hometown was where you were born in

[smoky idol]

Spawn point

[winged hawk]

in that case... my hometown definitely not johor

it will be Perak for me and my elder brother

but yes johor for my younger brother

[strong isle]

Yeah I guess I assumed that cz usually people are born where their family resides, hence hometown

But now idk anymore

[strong isle]

So doctors basically are spawn camping

[smoky idol]

Why do you think they are there with the scissors?

Oh yea, we have a tradition where we vegan for half a day in the first day of CNY

[strong isle]

I think there's a tradition where people memang go vegetarian for the first 7 days right

[smoky idol]

My family is preparing steamboat it seems

Might need a thread later for all the reunion dinner photos

[winged hawk]

new years eve is the reunion dinner, usually steamboat is the go to option cuz of the atmosphere

but it seem my family at johor decide to go eat at restaurant🤣

not enough people to make steamboat worthwhile i guess

[strong isle]

just send here je

[strong isle]

actually going outto a restaurant is just less hassle. if your family is really busy cleaning and wont want to tire themselves out by prepping food and all, going out is a good option

but of course, the prices are more expensiveand quality not assured since they will produce those foods in bulk

[winged hawk]

the exact point

[winged hawk]

booking early is cheaper i think

also how low quality can a restaurant go🤣 get too low, the next thing you know is you kena cyber bully on facebook

[strong isle]

ohh i think it depends cz i know seomtimes during CNY times, they will make packages for you insted of having you order individual dishes. like they will offer you a package for 8 ppl, with maybe 5 dishes etc then charge you for those dishes per tabel

[strong isle]

this one is only for those restauratns with packages. cz if they dont need to prepare the dishes individually, they prepare those foods in packages and in bulk to save time. so then the food is not as.. good as usual T_T

but true about cyber bully HAHA get review dumped online

RIP restaurant

[winged hawk]

枸杞...uh... i know it is good but i just dont like

[hoary prairie]

@winged hawk i love It instead adding with our cream chese... There are so many type of cheese in Italy. These berries are perfect with "robiola" or "stracchino"

Although they might call it differently in different regions, like ‘crescenza‘ in Liguria, it’s easily identifiable by its softness and creaminess — very delicate in flavor and aroma.

This "zizzona" instead is a mozzarella made with buffalo milk. it's called that because in dialect it means big tit😆🤫