BRICK

Hey updates! Well lets do the necessary first, Happy New Year! Well its kinda weird as CNY whizzed past me so quietly this year. No reunion dinner, no visiting of friends and family, no angpow, no cny goodies, no junk shows on tv, no mahjong and most important of all, not enough sleep and have to drag myself to work whole day on 大年初一. I think it might be a blessing in disguise though, else i might feel super lonely staying back in hall.

I skipped lunch and made a quick trip to chinatown to see the celebration and before I plowed through the massive crowd, i heard cheesy trance music, turned around and i saw this

She was wiggling to the music and totally ignorant to hundreds of trigger happy people around her. Star of the day at leceister square.

Basically theres nothing much to see except endless angmoh heads and lines of really old fashioned red laterns that i think has been recycled for years. The crowd is really amazing and as i was working my way around, i heard loads of insulting remarks. fucking chinese, bloody chinese, oriental crap, ching chiong ching...they were swearing because they thought the chinese causes all that jammed when 80% of the people there were caucasians. I even heard a mother telling her son, "dont go too near the chinese, you will get killed". Oh well...

I managed to catch lion dance before going back to work but the lions could hardly move due to the overwhelming crowd so instead of prancing around, they were carrying the lions' heads squeezing through the crowd and shouting "please move back! we need to go forward!" all the time. But it got the crowd very excited still.

Managed to see my friend in the crowd but i have to wade through the crowd to go back to work. Then i saw people. More people.

You get the idea?

Went back to chinatown after work for dinner. The crowd has cut by half and i thought chinatown looked better at night.

Well, thats it i guess. Back to school tomorrow and a full study timetable ahead before i work my ass off again next weekend. You lucky people enjoy the consecutive days of cny okay? All the best of luck and health to everyone :) Jia you!