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Happy Chinese New Years!

I've been anticipating for this day for quite some time and y'all know why! No I do not enjoy looking at the mountains of glitter and red that made my eyes sore OR enduring through the awful 'ching chong chiangs' chinese screaming songs that never fails to make me cringe wherever I go. But that's all worth the money I'll get and the goodies I can munch down on that particular day! I don't even care or bother going wayy back in history to understand how this whole red pocket thing came up but whatever, im satisfied enough with my 'cha-chingg'!

So I had my 30-meh dinner last Saturday and unfortunately one of our dishes was shark fin soup. I had a rule of forbidding myself to eat shark fin anything ever since I learned about the cruelty and unfairness in them so last saturday was a bummer for me. Since the dish came in a whole package and well, pushing my bowl to Dad infront of everyone would be rude, I ended up swallowing the broth secretly swearing at myself ugh ugh ugh. I reaally don't get why this whole 'Shark fin brings prosperity and luck' tradition is still going on for Chinese, seriously where's the sense in that? How the hell does a triangular shape body structure detached from a deadly sea creature suppose to bring fortune to anyone?  No, it doesn't . Instead, millions of sharks are left dying a slow painful death underneath the seafloor, colouring the ocean crimson right after their captured and have their fins brutally sliced of with a knife. All for an irrelevant tradition that so far, in my point of view hadn't been proven yet (and never will). What are we doing while these poor sharks are lying pathetically, watching their blood and life pass before them helplessly? Ah thats right, celebrating to a new beginning, 'kaaampeeiii'-ing and wolfing down food while dancing around. And let's be honest, I can bet no one really enjoys the taste of this stringy slippery dish or that its even worth the money. For a small bowl like that, it sure cost alot. It has no peculiar taste cause I've heard people saying "I'm craving for hamburger!" or "Ugh, I want to sink my teeth in fried chicken!" but never "Bloody hell, I want to slurp down a bowl of  that shark fin! Yum!" 

Its all for a label or a feeling really, that you've drank it or that you feel lucky or whatever. I don't pry on the whole red bringing good luck thingy but this could be extinction i'm talking about while that is harmless. 

Wow, leave it to me to turn the Happy in Happy CNY upside down. Here's a picture of my history teacher dressed up for our school CNY event (which I wasn't able to come to see myself unfortunately) to lighten the mood.

pictures below are all taken by : Katina Irwan

these are taken in royal sumatera, we just wandered of in any green piece of land in sight

after all the sitting, my back was practically soaking.

so we were staying at the golf court place, you know where the holes and where the golfers shoot their balls to. Someone literally shouted loud at me all across the field after a ball flew by and so jeez, sending them a lil' love in their life.

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