While my family was celebrating the CNY in Hong Kong, Curry Boy and I were doing measurements in an empty house, unboxing some Amazon stuffs, and probably also inhaling dust as a CNY starter.
I just heard from my Mom, that grandma said, “Among all my grandkids, your daughter (means me) is the most loneliest one. Married to a super far foreign country, no CNY celebration, nobody to talk to……”
OMG, doesn’t look good……Am I, lonely?
I don’t really celebrate any Chinese festivals at all when I’m no longer in Hong Kong. When a festival comes, “Oh yes! Today is XXX festival.” But do I celebrate? No. Then I tried to look back, in Hong Kong, did I look forward to celebrate any festivals? Well, probably no. To me, it’s just a day that you’re off your routine.
I guess somebody who’s living in a foreign country understands what I mean.
So, how did we spend the CNY?
Since we’ve got the keys of the apartment and need to move there within 10 days. We’ve to measure everything and buy all the furnitures and stuffs. After that, we tried to clean the house(don’t expect so much from the so called “professional cleaning”), move some stuff from the Airbnb and started unpacking, and unboxing (and repeat).
The process is tiring and requires a lot of decision making, but it’s also part of the joy of moving house. Try to enjoy it, even you really don’t. There is not so much chance in life that you can decluttering so thoroughly and again buying everything!
As I could foresee myself will be tired on CNY, I’ve bought a special CNY celebration takeaway meal kit from M&S a day before.
It consists of 5 different dishes, serves 2, costs £12.
- Fried rice with eggs
- Singapore noodles
- Sweet and sour chicken
- Chicken(again) in black bean sauce
- 4 vegetable spring rolls
It’s a chilled product, so you just need to put them into an oven (or microwave) to reheat. How’s the taste? Well, not bad! Quantity was enough also, just a bit too salty for me.
Compare to the banquet liked CNY dinner in Hong Kong, of course this meal kit is not impressive, but it served the purpose.
I’ll keep posting how our house moving going, as someone may find our experience is useful.
So, how about your CNY’s celebration? Was it fun?
