When it comes to holiday seasons, I'm never the Grinch to shatter the happiness that is filled around. It's always a blessing to have some time off from school and the routined schedule I have to abide. But this time, The Chinese New Year holidays are taking a toll on me. I'm not feeling as hyped as I will usually be and without the ever-flowing ang paus, it would earn it's title as My Least Favorite Holiday.
You ask why this holiday season isn't anticipated as much as Christmas?
For one thing, the weather is always scorching hot. Whenever CNY is just around the corner, the weather begins to increase in temperature. And in comparison with the other holiday seasons, this is the hottest time of the year where people would be dripping with sweat just by walking out of the house for a few minutes or just by running errands. Ridiculous, much?
Alongside enduring a slight change in the tone of my voice, It gives me another reason to not pig out on fried, spicy or heaty food. It's also not such an appropriate time to be in the passenger seat of a car, - being cooked by the heat that has built up due to parking right under the sun - following Mum from place to place to visit relatives whom I only get to see only once a year.
As much as it brings inconvenience, I never complain because family is a very huge part of my life. And I don't want to be the odd one out of such a close-knitted family. I'm also reminded of the fact that I'll never be a true Chinese. Each time I strike up a conversation with a relative in English, they end up trying to creep in a little bit of Mandarin - that, too, I can never understand. Or every time I take a seat at the round table where my relatives are seated and are chatting away, it makes me feel useless as I'll be sitting there just waiting for them to translate it to me in English. It's just a sad revelation. To my friends, I'm known as a Banana. You know, yellow on the outside, white on the inside.
When it comes to eating / food matters, I'm a real fuss-pot. I mean this matter-of-factly. I eat chicken in every way except for steamed - and no matter what way I eat it, I never hesitate to full at the fats and remove them all. I don't eat pork but I do eat it wantan's. As for fishes, I only eat Bawal's, Salmon's, and Dory's... and maybe a few others. I don't eat beef, lamb, or mutton. Not because I follow Indian beliefs but because they just don't taste good enough, or simply cause' I'm just not a meat lover.
As for speaking matters, Arwin says I sometimes I talk like a typical Chinese woman and sometimes, I sound like a typical Indian one. And sometimes, I sound too proper. My group of friends are to be blamed cause' when I'm in church, most of them are Chinese and when I'm at school, they are mostly Indians. So yeah, you get the picture.
Then again, I have the best of both worlds... This doesn't really feel or is considered as the best of both worlds, but when it comes to the combination of these two very different worlds I sometimes face and are up against, I really don't mind at all.
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