Happy (stinking) "Chinese" New Year!

It is the year of the tiger...

Isn't it ironic? Life IS ironic.

First, to clear off controversies just from the title alone.

• It's "stinking" because instead of having fun of the festivities, all I get is boredom and time-wasting from all the holidays we get.
• It's "Chinese" because, frankly, it's not really Chinese. To be precise, it's the new lunar calendar year. So why do we call it "Chinese"? That's just plain racist.
  

So anyway, I've been bored my pants off. That's the consequence of going off, away from civilisation, and away from technology and my hobbies. It's just sad. Now, seeing that most of my friends are not around YET from their balik kampung-ing, I'm still having the "time of my life" (ie, even if I'm back in civilisation).

After 3 years of not spending the new year around with my family, I initially got really excited about it. The thought of having really good food, being around family and relatives, fireworks and firecrackers popping everywhere, and not to forget, red packets (the best part of the new year XD).

That was soooooo last year.

I realised the new year mood has totally declined, seeing that there isn't much decorations around town, not much hype going on, the city is still the same colour (so to say).

I don't feel it anymore.

To add on, I didn't get as many red packets as I used to when I was a young lad.

BAH, Humbug.