18th February 2007
Sunday
Chinese New Year 初一
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

I woke up in the morning and realised that my eyes were swollen due to excessive rubbing the previous night. Thus I gave up the idea of wearing contacts today.

Today is the first day of the lunar new year. My sister and brother-in-law came over to my house in the morning. The first thing I remember hearing was the knocking on the door. Then I dragged myself out to the bathroom and washed up.

Waking up early is really a chore. Till now I still cannot understand how people can wake up so early everyday even if they have nothing to do.

Anyway, my sister visited us and then we went down to my grandmother's place together. Like all other years, most of the time during 初一 was spent at my grandmother's place. There, all the families will gather and just waste time there.

Actually, most of the time spent today was on gambling. Although gambling doesn't really appeal to me, I still joined in. Sometimes you have no choice but to follow the majority. "When in rome, do as the romans do." It is a better choice than to reject gambling and sit alone and make everyone think that something is wrong. So I tooked part in the gambling and totally wasted my day there. Well, at least I am $17.50 richer.

This year is a bit different from the past years though. We didn't visit my maternal grandmother's house. As mentioned in my previous post, my maternal grandmother is in hospital, so there was no visiting at her place. However, we didn't visit her in hospital today.

On a brighter note, Weisheng is planning a Kbox outing for tomorrow. And I had a new idea for plot development. Things are going pretty well these days.