Why do we love?

Just a week away to Chinese New Year! Time of hongbaos and mandarin oranges,plenty to tidbits,sweets,drinks and sore throats... Maybe it hasnt hit me yet,but I still dont feel very excited about it. Dont have that CNY atmosphere. The only sign of it in my house is the amazing disappearance acts of plenty of junk,junk that was collecting dusk for the past year. Untouched,ignored,neglected,invisible then. But touched,zero-ed in on,thrown away,visible but disposed of now. Amazing how festivals spur lazy people into action. Sometimes people just need a little motivation that pushes their right buttons to do stuff. Motivations,not principles. If my family and I were really spurred on by principles dictating a clean and tidy house,those year old dust probably wouldnt have survived past the first month. But as it is,principles get shaken by external circumstances and other sorts of motivations have to be brought in to move us. Yikes! That doesnt sound very morally strong. Oh well...

In the next 3 days im embarking on a reunion dinner marathon! Yu sheng(and hopefully red wine) here i come! Always liked reunion dinners with yu sheng cos they inevitably bring everybody around the table,the whole family. Warm family feeling.. Ahhhh.... even if it lasts for 2 minutes. After that another kind of family feeling. AREA CLEANING!!

Anyway,holding 3 seperate dinners for 2 families. Urgh.. This's the first year im having separate reunion dinners with my mum and dad. A bit weird and uncomfortable with that. But its ok,got the spiritual family to make up for that. Haha. Putting in more effort into that steamboat reunion dinner thingy maybe cos its the first time im doing anything like that(Special shout out to Jess for teaching me to de-skin and slice my first chicken/pork/fish!) and partly to revive that "warm family feeling" that I know is going to be missing somehow in the other 2 dinners. Only thing thats going to be consistent with all 3 dinners is the cleaning up part =X Gulp... Haha.

Well,til next time.. Hopefully I get my camera up and running soon. HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!