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Daily Journal – September 14

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Daily Journal - September 14

 

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Fighting Cows

There are loads of cows grazing in the estate field near us! We could see them from our front window yesterday but I couldn’t go visit them because I had WI. Piers went. He said they were so near the fence he could touch them!

So today I made him go with me. Sadly, the cows have moved further away. But we saw two cows fighting each other, like pushing their horns against each other and that was kind of cute!

Gratitude

I’m grateful for the peace and quiet of the countryside. It really is awesome. The noisiest thing here is Piers, haha. His racing simulator is so noisy. His steering wheel rattles and his seat screeches and he yells into his mic as he races with his online pals.

Ready Player One

Just finished reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It is so good! I really liked the movie when I saw it in April but now I am disappointed in it because the plots and scenes in the book are so much cooler. I wish VR was as awesome as in the book. Piers keeps trying to get me to play his VR games but I can’t get into them!

 

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Cows at the temple

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Animal activists might cry foul at this and I suppose I do feel a little sorry for the cows, but I can’t deny that I was quite delighted to see cows at the temple.

Cows at the temple

This photo was taken last Sunday night at Loyong Tua Pek Kong, where me and my friends went to start our Chinese New Year celebrations.

A pair of cows were brought in to usher in the Year of the Ox. (They do this every year, bringing in different animals each year.)

The temple was so crowded this year I almost hyperventilated.

The above photo is the only clear one I managed to snap of the cows before the crowd pushed in and blocked my view.

Cows at the temple

I think they were a bit traumatised. I mean the cows.

Loyang TPK

The crowd totally owned me.

The smoke from the joss sticks, too. I couldn’t stop crying.

Here’s the God of Wealth by proxy:

Loyang TPK

We kinda missed the deitifying ritual because it started early this year. It was total, total madness. Here’s the queue of people waiting to shake hands with the God of Wealth:

Loyang TPK

I didn’t hang around inside for too long. For some reason, there was no concert and no countdown this year, like they have every other year. So, after paying our respects in the temple, we escaped outside to eat ice cream.

That’s my favourite part of the celebrations every year. There’s always at least one ice cream man outside the temple selling traditional “home made” ice cream, the no-brand kind we used to eat when we were kids.

After the temple visit, we went to watch Ip Man at VivoCity.

Ip Man is really, really good. I never used to like Donnie Yen but now I do, although I think his hairstyle in the show is super dorky.

Ip Man

I feel the urge to learn Chinese martial arts all over again. Except I still don’t have the time to. =(

The movie ended at 4:30 am. I went to bed at 6:30 am. Fell asleep maybe 7:30 am.

Slept all the way till 3 pm!!

Haha. Did my first CNY visiting at 5:30 pm.

Except for the temple visit, CNY this year is pretty quiet for me.

Nine more days of Chinese New Year to go!! Still got chance to collect ang pow!

Happy CNY!

By the way, tomorrow is 人日, which is supposed to be everyone’s birthday. I can never understand this concept, but who cares. It’s the day when we are supposed to celebrate by eating yu sheng. Anything that involves yu sheng works for me!

So, happy birthday to you and me!