Happy New Year

The year of the Monkey has arrived. Today is the first day. I didn't go to church because a cousin and his wife are currently staying with us. They are Buddhists. However, I have completed my duties of entertaining my first cousins from the C clan when they dropped by this afternoon and attended a lavish dinner organized by first cousins from the L clan. The L clan tends to invite us for lavish dinners over 4 nights for CNY but I have managed to convince my Mum to allow me to only attend one from now on. Tomorrow's dinner will be at Pan Pacific Sutera Harbour but I am not going. I have been excused. I breathe a sigh of relief. This type of entertaining is quite pricey. I hope that I could rake in enough so my Mum could do the same next year. As to whether if I would attend if I am paying, I don't think that I would if I could... Life is simpler without these complications. I miss the way we celebrated CNY in Melbourne and I miss being a Chinese from an Australian perspective.