Happy CNY!
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elusivekin all the festivities I come with stories of all the inconveniences.
The nice dragon and lion dance? Yes, amazing to watch. Until the road closures right in front of your building and you can’t go out. Not on foot, not in the car.
Had to go fetch my aunt and she was closed off all sides. So I had to get off the car and walk into the closed off zone, all the while seeing other cars where we were barred from entering.
We did the Karen thing and just walked across the road in front of all the traffic police. They were like “hey be careful, don’t walk this way” and I was like “well, sucks to be us as you’ve blocked off access for us to pick up this old lady with a walking stick,” and then the police stopped all traffic to let us walk across lol.
So we had our usual CNY family lunch at a buffet place - in the end they chose another place that I didn't book because it's cheaper than the place I booked. The booking process was painful because we had to pay a deposit, but it's a really far off place, and no one had the time to go to the place ahead of time to pay the deposit, that meant we would have lost our reservation yesterday if we didn't go, and everyone having a panic attack. I just rolled my eyes and asked to see my cousin's email (this cousin is very against electronics and digital stuff) and there was a payment code, and so I just clicked on it and paid the deposit, pronto, 5 out of 5 no drama. And the family had the decency to say the food's not good at all. Lê sigh and lê eyeroll.
Since people have been doing this give your dog a Lai see with snacks, I did so with Frankie too! He wasn't too impressed. I'm looking at this preview thumbnail and he has this bombastic side eye lol
So I have 3 days of holiday for the CNY - today's as good as gone. I might go out to a Starbucks a little later to buy a new cup holder they are issuing for Spring - similar to the black cat holder with a cat butt, but it's a corgi! I dunno. Or I may just laze around and do nothing, I have a weird not-quite headache but some head-ache on one side of my head.
I saw a video on how to fold a cat out of a money bill - I first tried with an Euro bill but there's one part of the Euro bill that has a stripe and it's really hard and can't be folded. So I used a local bill and managed, but it's too thick, I couldn't stuff it in my phone case - to be used as a charm. For now I stuffed it in the cover of my notebook.
My friend J asked to meet up for lunch yesterday, so I went. Tomorrow we're going for an early Hong Kong movie. Will have lunch after the movie as well, wonder what we'll have.
I've been spending more time with Frankie in local hiking trails - this one trail I know I've been to over 20 years ago with my previous dogs, but I forgot this one part where 2 boulders are so near each other... Frankie was stuck LOL. I had to carry him out hahaha.
The nice dragon and lion dance? Yes, amazing to watch. Until the road closures right in front of your building and you can’t go out. Not on foot, not in the car.
Had to go fetch my aunt and she was closed off all sides. So I had to get off the car and walk into the closed off zone, all the while seeing other cars where we were barred from entering.
We did the Karen thing and just walked across the road in front of all the traffic police. They were like “hey be careful, don’t walk this way” and I was like “well, sucks to be us as you’ve blocked off access for us to pick up this old lady with a walking stick,” and then the police stopped all traffic to let us walk across lol.
So we had our usual CNY family lunch at a buffet place - in the end they chose another place that I didn't book because it's cheaper than the place I booked. The booking process was painful because we had to pay a deposit, but it's a really far off place, and no one had the time to go to the place ahead of time to pay the deposit, that meant we would have lost our reservation yesterday if we didn't go, and everyone having a panic attack. I just rolled my eyes and asked to see my cousin's email (this cousin is very against electronics and digital stuff) and there was a payment code, and so I just clicked on it and paid the deposit, pronto, 5 out of 5 no drama. And the family had the decency to say the food's not good at all. Lê sigh and lê eyeroll.
Since people have been doing this give your dog a Lai see with snacks, I did so with Frankie too! He wasn't too impressed. I'm looking at this preview thumbnail and he has this bombastic side eye lol
So I have 3 days of holiday for the CNY - today's as good as gone. I might go out to a Starbucks a little later to buy a new cup holder they are issuing for Spring - similar to the black cat holder with a cat butt, but it's a corgi! I dunno. Or I may just laze around and do nothing, I have a weird not-quite headache but some head-ache on one side of my head.
I saw a video on how to fold a cat out of a money bill - I first tried with an Euro bill but there's one part of the Euro bill that has a stripe and it's really hard and can't be folded. So I used a local bill and managed, but it's too thick, I couldn't stuff it in my phone case - to be used as a charm. For now I stuffed it in the cover of my notebook.
My friend J asked to meet up for lunch yesterday, so I went. Tomorrow we're going for an early Hong Kong movie. Will have lunch after the movie as well, wonder what we'll have.
I've been spending more time with Frankie in local hiking trails - this one trail I know I've been to over 20 years ago with my previous dogs, but I forgot this one part where 2 boulders are so near each other... Frankie was stuck LOL. I had to carry him out hahaha.
