8th February 2008

My family's probably the most informal, non china family ever!!! Okay not the traditional kind i mean.

We had two reunions! Hahaha and even then, not the entire family were there. The first reunion was on the eve of Chinese New Year, but one of my cousins from Austrlia couldn't make it, cause she had a reunion with her father's side. We're related through our mothers.

My first thought when my aunt said "She has a reunion with the OTHER SIDE", i was like, "OTHER SIDE???" What, ghosts? Heaven? What other side? My mum looked at me as if i was insane.

Loisa: Huh? What other side does she have? Reunion with ghosts from heaven??
Mum: -_- You tao nao bo ho seh...
Loisa: *thoughts in head* Zzzzz, say until like that...
Mum: She's eating with her dad's family la...
Loisa: Her father has a FAMILY??
Mum: -____________________-"""" *probable thoughts in head* I have a dumbass of a daughter

It was then that it hit me. OOOMMMGGGG other people have TWO families! I just realized, my family is so superbly small. But even then, it IS a family. And i am so thankful that i at least have THAT.

Well anyway, that aside, we arranged to have a second reunion, on the second day of Chinese New Year. YAY! Double blessings from family, hahaha, unfortunately, no double ang pows -.-

Okay, so for both reunion dinners, we had, peranakan food. A little Chinese, a little Indonesian. OOOMMMGGGG SHIOK!!! I am so peranakan!!! I just realized, i have so much of my heritage in me. There was BUA KELUAK (a kind of nut gravy you eat with curry chicken) and CHAP CHYE (peranakan vegetables). AHH heaven!!

If there was this kind of food in heaven everyday, this truly applies -->

Heaven is a wonderful place,
Filled with BUA KELUAK and CHAP CHYE,
I wanna be where these food are,
Heaven is a wonderful place...

Okay, so the two middle lines are made up, but ah hahaha you get my point. Oh yeah, and since my mum and her sisters are of the indonesian blood, they're the peranakans or "baba", who love these authentic food. The husbands all hate it! Down the line are my female cousins, who all love it as well, INCLUDING ME. And guess what, their boyfriends don't like the taste of that food! AAHHHAHAHA truly, the females are of this bloodline =)

Anyway, back to my wonderful non traditional family. We gather to eat, as a family, but we don't exactly talk as a family. Instead, during our meal, we're watching tv. After the meal, we're still watching that same movie, til it's time to go home, we say bye bye, then leave. -.- I suppose that isn't the way traditional families do their reunion? I'm not sure. But it sure is fascinating to me!! Someone do tell me what's the usual Chinese way of having a reunion. Is there the tossing of the what, lo hei thingy?

Talking about movies, during today's dinner, we watched King Kong. I was seriously whimpering at the end already. The only thing that stopped me from crying was that i wanted to portray myself as a big girl now, not the baby of the family. Men are so cruel. If you have watched the movie, you would know how cruel they were to the monkey/gorilla fella. He was in pain, he was hurt... If i were in the cinema, i would have just wailed already.

Sniff. I definitely would not want to watch THAT movie again. =(