Chinese New Year 2008 for my family in Newcastle (NCL) will be a quiet one and perhaps the coldest one. This will be my first time in my life not to celebrate CNY in Kuching with my parents and this will also be the first CNY for little Aidan. I wish I can be back at home to celebrate CNY together in Kuching so that I can bring my little Aidan to collect some AngPows and to show him to my relatives. Oh yeah, Aidan is 4 months old now and he can turn to his side now, grabbing specs, neck skin, scratch anything from his own face to daddy and mummy's face and neck and started to play with water during bathing. Again, I just miss his first 4 months, from his pictures, I can see that his outlook have changed a lot, from skinny to fat and tiny to stout. He started to learn to take power nap like his mother and last night he slept at 1.30 am. I can never take any power nap. My nap is defined as my eyes shut for at least 8 hours with or without snore.
After being abroad, I look back and I really treasure the kind of life and community in Kuching, I'm talking about Kuching especially, not anywhere else in Malaysia. I miss home. While I type, I can feel my tear glands trying to secrete tears and at the same time my brain is telling it to stop. Well, I'm the emotional crying type I guess. The man who cries.
I MISS HOME, I MISS MY PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, IN-LAWS, SIBLINGS, NIECES, NEPHEWS and OTHER RELATIVES, CLOSE FRIENDS etc.
I also miss my dog (Lucky), my terrapin (Ah Hock), my ....what else did I leave behind anyway...well. I guess I only have 2 pets.
I MISS LAKSA, KOLO MEE and KUEH CHAP. Once I browsed through my digital photo album and I bumped into this
ARRRAAHHHH. It's turning me mad. I can just smell the aroma direct from the LCD from my ACER notebook. It look so real, It smell so real but it's flat when I tried to touch it. I want laksa, I want laksa, I want laksa.....
Maybe the nearest place to taste good laksa is in Belgium, find Yee Wei, find laksa. If only someone is selling the Sarawak Laksa paste in Newcastle...
10 comments:
cikgu can order online one.
www.sambalsatu.com
i got no idea how much everytihng, but since u earn in pound everything is chump change la. lol.
thanks, who's this anyway?
Yeah Tan, I am also very homesick. Kuching is the best but then again a lot of people want to get out of the place to overseas and us being overseas want the opposite. Yeah, I still have two laksa paste with me, you didnt bring some over meh???
Nope. didn't bring any over.
Well, the grass is always greener on the other side. So we are finding the other side greener now.
I know how you feel, Kenny. Not for the Laksa, but for HP Sauce. I'm living in France at the moment and although I can buy the stuff it's ridiculously expensive. And proper mature cheddar cheese. And decent tinned beans...
I also miss the McSpicy burgers that McDonalds only seem to sell in Sri Lanka and Singapore. I was surprised not to see them in Kuala Lumpur.
There are always Chinese New Year celebrations here in Newcastle, so hopefully that will stop you feeling so homesick. Check out the website for details:
http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/life.nsf/articles/7207D5315AC3D2BC802573C6003485CC?OpenDocument
http://tinyurl.com/yoezoq
Thanks for the link but CNY will never be the same without the same faces.
I guess all Chinese restaurant will turn into a slaughter house during CNY eve.
This Christmas I was with a bunch of strangers in a new workplace in France, and spent the day on my own (by my own choice) and chilled out.
The previous one, I was in India - at the Taj Mahal, in fact. For that new year I was in Sri Lanka. For both of these I was with one very good friend, but was going through a bad time personally.
Thing is, he was great company and I have good stories to tell about the time despite not actually being happy then. Make the Chinese New Year your own. Don't worry about the faces who *won't* be there - enjoy the faces of those who *are*! This CNY is going to be special because it's different - *enjoy* the difference!
And have a good one :)
Hehehe..you just got to England my dear. Give yourself 3 years, I am sure at the end of your PhD, you'll love UK so much you don't feel like returning home...;-)
I will look out for Laska paste for you. I know there is an Asian food stall in the Grainer market. Maybe they have it.
I can imagine what it is like to be homesick - but I hope you manage to enjoy your new year celebrations. I know in China Town there are celebrations all day on Sunday (although I am aware the real day for celebration is Thursday).
Either way, Happy New Year, I am sure it will be a good one for you.
Post a Comment