: : More on CNY celebrations : :
At a farewell dinner for a collegue.
Wena : How about we get some CNY banners to put up in the office? To bring us good luck for the new year.
Pascale : Yes yes! Let’s!
Wena : Need to get someone who knows how to read mandarin lah! You can?
Pascale : Nope. But Tay can!
Wena : Tay! We go and get some banners! Since ‘guest of honor’ not here yet, we go get some!
Tay : Huh?
Wena : Come lah! We go buy some CNY decor for office! Shop next door sell cheap cheap! RM5 only!
Tay : Errr…ok ok.
At shop.
Pascale : Wah! Got so many to choose from!
Tay : But all Gong Xi Fa Chai one! We must get better one.
Wena : Hmm… let’s go next door!
At another shop.
Tay : Ah! We buy these two. Go together one!
Shopkeeper : Good bargain! Two for RM5!
Wena : Ok! We take!
Left : If want to win, must win A LOT!
Right : If want to fight, die fighting lah!
Well, that’s what Tay told me it was. My other collegues at the restaurant had a good laugh about it all. We also chatted about the recent explosion that occured yesterday morning at a housing estate where illegal firecrackers were being stored. According to Pascale, it occured in the morning where it emitted one big BANG! Reading through the article, was wondering what godown meant until I found out it was the direct ‘sound’ translation of the Malay word gudang meaning warehouse.
Firecrackers is now banned in Malaysia where is a good thing as now the entire community can go to sleep easily on CNY eve. Before the ban, firecrackers can be heard from 12 a.m. until early morning, causing a lot of families to have sleepless nights. However, fireworks are still sold legally and my uncle Eric in Miri buys at least 2 boxes every year, to the delight of my young cousins.
Oh yeah, here is the zoom-in picture of the Chinese wording for the honey-lemon pomelo that I bought the other day. And yeah, it was pretty dry but sweet. Not as juicy as the normal pomelo. Oh well.