Treasuring every second.

It's my last week chilling in Msia! Ugh. Got to accept the fact that I've been here for almost a month when it seems like I just got down from the plane yesterday. Last week was Chinese New Year and I went back to my mum and dad's kampung-- Ipoh on Chor1. Had our reunion dinner with dad's side on 除夕 night. This year's cny is a little different as I'm now vegetarian. I've decided to stop taking meat for almost 3 months now. Well there are quite a few reasons to it. First, I attended a talk in uni where a doc said, humans are not born to eat meat cos scientifically, our intestines are not designed to digest meat, cos compared to the lengths of our intestines to the lengths of a tiger's, ours are way longer. Herbivores have long intestine, so hey, we're more similar to them. Moreover, carnivores have huge and sharp teeth but we don't right? Second, I wanna train myself to being more compassionate as I'll be a doc soon. Thirdly, my yoga instructor, Dr Dhilip, we call him, suggested me to be a vegetarian when we had my farewell lunch before I left to ShangHai. I only smiled, cos that time I thought it would be really hard for me not to take meat cos I'd been taking meat for 19 years leh, say stop then stop, so easy ah. Hahah. Until one fine day in ShangHai when I was having dinner with my friends, I realized quite a lot of them are vegetarian, and so I thought, if so many people can quit taking meat, why can't I? So from that day onwards I officially say bye to meat meat.

    My mum and aunt, who are both vegetarians are surprised and glad to find out that I'm not taking meat. That day when I was skyping with Emily, she asked ''Eh, you know what ah? I'm now a vegetarian.'' You wouldn't know how much we laughed and how surprised we both were since we started to be vegetarians at almost the same time! We have that bond eh, no matter that distance. Hahhah.

  So, for this cny, no more 大鱼大肉 for me. Seeing all the dishes- raw salmon, prawns, 东波肉, abalone, 石斑fish that I once loved eating so much served on the table, I felt hard to resist the temptation and nearly fell for them... But right at that moment, I tell myself 'if not now, then when?' If I failed to resist the temptation now, I may never be able be a vegetarian forever. Being a vegetarian requires determination too eh? Hahhah. And yupe, I only got to eat Loh Hon Zai- mixed veg since all the other dishes were meat.

  It surely felt great to visit my relatives in Ipoh. Only.. to some relatives that I'm closer and have more topics with la. I enjoy meeting them.. Heh.. Cos some relatives I totally don't have anything to talk about or I totally haven't seen them before, so it's like.. AWKWARD.. AWKWARD.. AND AWRKWARD... Like seriously, I don't even know how to address them I just call them uncle or auntie. Hahah. Then take angpau, bye bye hahhah.

  The questions I got most from my relatives this year are 'How's China?' 'Do you miss your family?' 'Where are places you've been in China?' '东方明珠is really pretty isnt it?' 'Got ShangHai bf ah?' 'What have you learned ah? Lai, 把脉for me' 'Is this good for the body?'. Wooowwh, I hope the questions won't get worse or more epic next year.

  I didn't gamble much this year... I've only won RM1 this cny.. Lol. Instead of gambling, me, my mum, aunt, bro, cous bros, and one meimei stayed up till 4am playing the Police, Killer, and Healer game. Hahah. Never knew it could be fun playing with fam too. <3

 Before heading back to KL on Chor5, my fam and I visited to Gaharu Tea Valley in Gopeng, which was where my mum were born. RM 10 per head, went up to the valley where they plant 沉香, which is the Gaharu tree, which is a type of herb widely used in China, and which offers many health benefits especially for those who have blood clots in their heart. We took some pics, hugged and touched the trees, drank Gaharu tea and ehm... Nothing else. Well, I wouldn't say it's worth the visit. But it's nice creating memories with my Fam. Credits to the boss who made great effort in making a plantation into a tourist spot tho. :)

  Here ends my cny post. Gonna post about my baes baes I met up with in my next blog post! Stay tuned. Heh.