Location: Daddy's hometown, Teluk Intan (TA, coz it used to be called Teluk Anson and people here never really gotten over it.), Perak.
I would like to first point out that mommy's pc's internet browser's font is freakishly small. Hell that woman has the eyesight of my 70 year old grandma but having a pc with freakishly small font for a browser... women...
Anyhoo, as known by thousands and thousands (i'm not sure of the amount of the 'WHOLE Chinese population') of Chinese all over the world... It's the first day of Chinese aka Lunar New Year~ (but we normally call it cny. If it's lunar new year, it'll be lny... then it wouldn't be cny anymore... hmm.. having a lame moment there...)
Although we stayed in Ipoh practically all our lives, we (speaking for bro and I) never once spend the first day of Chinese new year in Ipoh.
SO what's different this year?
As we're carrying out the tradition of coming back to daddy's hometown to spend cny like we did for the past 25 years (obviously I'm speaking about my family), the answer is... Not Much has changed.
... except that that's a McD Drive Thru in TA now~
Frankly, I can never understand WHY TA can even be considered as a city as of April 2004 (thanks wikipedia =). I thought cities need to have enough people in it to even be considered as one... hehe... being rather mean here.
Here's what NOT written in wikipedia.
Teluk Intan is famous for its local and very abundant residents, the mosquitoes. They're huge, hungry and especially attracted to me.
Teluk Intan is also known for its dirt-filled, not free flowing water in the longkangs aka ditches surrounding the city. That's where their 'residents' meet, greet and mate on a daily basis.
It's been like this since the middle ages I pressume...
Teluk Intan is also well-known for its very very low water pressure... and that's why I took forever in the bath room, unlike what some sources (lame arse bro) claimed that its due to my incompetence.
In Teluk Intan, there used to be this really kick-arse malay mamak store infront of the now San Shau Ye Chee Cheung Fun Shop (which is the best TA Chee Cheung Fun in the city) and Hotel-G. The row of mamaks serve the BEST Pourri, period. (I just made up that word, don't know the exact spelling mahh...)
It's something made using flour and grilled... not grilled... like heated up using a pan like stove with some oil... looked like a small little heat packet. But instead of having liquids in it, it's filled with air. So there you have it, flour with air. delicious!
In Teluk Intan, there used to be a really famous Nasi Lemak stall near Antek Avenue's Shi Jian Dian (in English it literally means Time Shop). But nowadays that auntie's kids' all grown up and she retired... DARN kids, they always grow up so fast =P
Funny that I googled it and no relevant hits came up... so I'm going to paraphrase it in different ways, so that the next person who googles it won't come out disappointed.
"Shi Jian Dian" in Teluk Intan; Teluk Intan's "Shi Jian Dian"... yea, my imagination's running pretty dry lately.
--- latest updates --- Mommy daddy and bro's snoozing happily coz 9am in MY house would've been like a ghost town, except Pipi... who has a feet fetish or something... always licking, biting, chewing, playing with his front legs...
Erm... too much info again...
To me, TA is more of a necessary place to stop by every year just so we can tick that off my family's to-do list. I'm not saying that it's a chore coz by not coming back here, it doesn't feel like chinese new year to me. Plus, we're not that close with daddy's family as we're staying about an hour and a half away... Besides, their family members had too much history that we don't know, hence, unable to understand the social/power relation between them.
I guess that's what makes a place special... Not the material stuff but the people living in it that defines it. And Food... Don't know why that I keep contradicting myself...
So, it's almost 9 am now, the kids are about to wake up and we're gona receive a big fat ang pow first thing in the morning from our parents~ buaahahahhaha!!! Nothing feels more cny than receiving a huge red ang pow from the beloved human beings first thing in the morning.
Then off we go! Visiting the same few houses that we have been going for... for years before I can even remember... =)
I would like to first point out that mommy's pc's internet browser's font is freakishly small. Hell that woman has the eyesight of my 70 year old grandma but having a pc with freakishly small font for a browser... women...
Anyhoo, as known by thousands and thousands (i'm not sure of the amount of the 'WHOLE Chinese population') of Chinese all over the world... It's the first day of Chinese aka Lunar New Year~ (but we normally call it cny. If it's lunar new year, it'll be lny... then it wouldn't be cny anymore... hmm.. having a lame moment there...)
Although we stayed in Ipoh practically all our lives, we (speaking for bro and I) never once spend the first day of Chinese new year in Ipoh.
SO what's different this year?
As we're carrying out the tradition of coming back to daddy's hometown to spend cny like we did for the past 25 years (obviously I'm speaking about my family), the answer is... Not Much has changed.
... except that that's a McD Drive Thru in TA now~
Frankly, I can never understand WHY TA can even be considered as a city as of April 2004 (thanks wikipedia =). I thought cities need to have enough people in it to even be considered as one... hehe... being rather mean here.
Here's what NOT written in wikipedia.
Teluk Intan is famous for its local and very abundant residents, the mosquitoes. They're huge, hungry and especially attracted to me.
Teluk Intan is also known for its dirt-filled, not free flowing water in the longkangs aka ditches surrounding the city. That's where their 'residents' meet, greet and mate on a daily basis.
It's been like this since the middle ages I pressume...
Teluk Intan is also well-known for its very very low water pressure... and that's why I took forever in the bath room, unlike what some sources (lame arse bro) claimed that its due to my incompetence.
In Teluk Intan, there used to be this really kick-arse malay mamak store infront of the now San Shau Ye Chee Cheung Fun Shop (which is the best TA Chee Cheung Fun in the city) and Hotel-G. The row of mamaks serve the BEST Pourri, period. (I just made up that word, don't know the exact spelling mahh...)
It's something made using flour and grilled... not grilled... like heated up using a pan like stove with some oil... looked like a small little heat packet. But instead of having liquids in it, it's filled with air. So there you have it, flour with air. delicious!
In Teluk Intan, there used to be a really famous Nasi Lemak stall near Antek Avenue's Shi Jian Dian (in English it literally means Time Shop). But nowadays that auntie's kids' all grown up and she retired... DARN kids, they always grow up so fast =P
Funny that I googled it and no relevant hits came up... so I'm going to paraphrase it in different ways, so that the next person who googles it won't come out disappointed.
"Shi Jian Dian" in Teluk Intan; Teluk Intan's "Shi Jian Dian"... yea, my imagination's running pretty dry lately.
--- latest updates --- Mommy daddy and bro's snoozing happily coz 9am in MY house would've been like a ghost town, except Pipi... who has a feet fetish or something... always licking, biting, chewing, playing with his front legs...
Erm... too much info again...
To me, TA is more of a necessary place to stop by every year just so we can tick that off my family's to-do list. I'm not saying that it's a chore coz by not coming back here, it doesn't feel like chinese new year to me. Plus, we're not that close with daddy's family as we're staying about an hour and a half away... Besides, their family members had too much history that we don't know, hence, unable to understand the social/power relation between them.
I guess that's what makes a place special... Not the material stuff but the people living in it that defines it. And Food... Don't know why that I keep contradicting myself...
So, it's almost 9 am now, the kids are about to wake up and we're gona receive a big fat ang pow first thing in the morning from our parents~ buaahahahhaha!!! Nothing feels more cny than receiving a huge red ang pow from the beloved human beings first thing in the morning.
Then off we go! Visiting the same few houses that we have been going for... for years before I can even remember... =)
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