Tired, bored, but a few hundred dollars richer.

I'm back from Malaysia, wonderful, and at least I came back via the most comfortable mode of transport, the Airliner. Beats a stupid 8+ hour coach ride that involves the risk of me getting car sick, having to lug bulky luggage bags in some crowed immigration checkpoint and suffering from a lack of sleep. A one hour journey beats that hands down, even if I had to take a 3 hour bus journey to Penang before getting on the flight.

Finished unpacking our things, and now I have several new pieces of clothing, along with 2 Bermudas which my mom thought that I desperately needed. Since I needed some new clothes for the occasion anyway, I rather not complain about a larger wardrobe (or is it a good thing?). As said in the title, I am a few hundred dollars richer, well.....a few hundred RM to be exact. I WAS in Malaysia, and most of my relatives (the married ones anyway) are there or rather, live there. Guess I will have to cut my so-called earnings by 2.4 times, that's fucked. Still, I got more than my sibling, and the monetary rewards my relatives gave me due to my O'lvl results were huge boosters for my 'revenue'.

7 points after CCA isn't exactly very impressive, but for a guy whose parents are from a small island of the west coast of Malaysia, it seems that yours truly is paving a way to a good future. And I guess I am, especially when my grandmother told me "Your grandfather (late, gone before I came into this world) would be damned proud if he knew he had you for a grandson." Thanks Ah Ma, and I think I did deserve those extra red packets my Aunts and Uncles (one of whom I call my godfather) gave me. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to be arrogant or anything, but to make one's family proud, and to be sincerely rewarded (I will be honest, I was fucking taken aback when I got my 1st 'extra' Hong Bao) for it...it's quite indescribable.

This year's CNY overseas may not the the most exciting (my cousins and I are mostly sick and tired of firecrackers, after almost a decade with those beasts), or what one can describe as one big reunion (not all or even most of them came, not that they are able to), but it is indeed a memorable one. Or maybe it will be one of those occasions which I will have difficulty remembering with vivid detail, only time will tell.