HK New Year

I was talking to my uncle on the phone and he told me that he passed by a “gai dan jai” cart and remembered how one year ago Derick and I were addicted to Gai Dan jai and had to look everywhere for it. He thinks it’s a quick year. I think it’s not that quick.

 

Chinese New Year is here again. That makes me remember how I spent the New Year in HK last year. My mom was trying to brag and show off how I came from “America”. She made me buy American Ginseng for all my uncles and aunts (7 of them). My mom was upset that I only bought 1 pound of Ginseng for each family. Dude – the ginseng cost me $500 to buy. But in the end I left 4 lbs. of them in Boston because I didn’t see the bags.

 

I remember how my oldest uncle’s wife gave my mom 1 ounce of “Yin Wor” in front of everyone else in the family, saying to her very loudly that “it’s very expensive ga! It costs several hundred dollars one ounce ga!” So??? You think we can’t afford to buy 1 ounce of Yin Wor? The aunt didn’t give it to anyone else in the family, talk about sucking up to us. This was not nice, to give someone a very small gift and bragged about the price.

 

New Year was fun there, but you can’t really rule out the behind the scenes competition with some of these people. We are family! Some of us are pretty tight. I love my uncles, just not the Oldest ones. I LOVE my uncles and their wives, and their kids too.  I miss them.  =(  I was the center attention when I was young, because I was the only adorable kid in the family.  =) they gave me all their attention. Talk about love, my uncles gave me more love than my mother. Sigh….

 

There were a lot of other memories from last year. Some were bad, with Derick.