When I was a kid, Chinese New Year means a lot to me. I’ll wait 358 days for that one week of holidays, I’ll make sure that I’m well and strong before the Chinese New Year, just to enjoy the feast, the food, the angpows, and the firecrackers, in the biggest festivities of the Chinese calendar.

I missed the time when I can join my group of friends on angpow-hunting row.

I missed the time when I could still receive angpows like a kid.

I missed the time when I can place small bets on a poker game and doesn’t have to worry of my wallet leaking holes.

I missed the time when I can have reunion dinner with my family, even though it’s a simple one.

I missed the smell of the firecrackers, and the noise of it going off.

I missed the time when I could still light them off fearlessly despite the fact that I almost blinded by them (”Chai Lei” exploded in front of me at point blank range!).

Photo courtesy of Sixthseal.com

What Chinese New Year? This is just another day of my life abroad in Australia.

She must have watched too much kung fu movies last year :/. Anyway, Happy Chinese New Year!

I’ll be in New Zealand for the Chinese New Year. Will be back on the 28th with promise of more, and more photos. Hopefully I could snap some NZ chicks. Until then, Happy Chinese New Year to you all!

Been a lazy Sunday afternoon for me, hot and dry, and I couldn’t even finish a complete blog post.

Holy sheet it’s so hot today. Find out why is it so hot in Melbourne today!

I’m not sure whether the car owner is a Cantonese, or ‘Layla’ is actually somebody’s name, but this is rather hilarious to me. ‘Layla’ sounded like ‘come lah’ in Cantonese, and if this particular Volkswagen overtakes you, it’ll say, “Lay la, lay la! come and get me! I’m the New Beetle!!”

How bout this? Ain’t it cool when you overtake someone and this number plate shows up asking you to accelerate! Now that to me, is the call for a challenge. Nice abbreviation there.

See also: Honda cars number plate.