Since young, this will always be the festive season that I look forward to every year. It will be the time where I get to see my family all together celebrating this festive season and also the time where I will get to spend more time with my cousins. I will also be able to receive many red packets from relatives and there’s so many delicious food!

During the eve of Chinese New Year, I will go back to my paternal grandmother’s house for reunion dinner. Surprisingly, this year I started receiving red packets on the eve of Chinese New Year from my relatives. After the dinner, as usual the adults will start playing mahjong or poker cards, whereas the kids will play with their PSP or handphone or just watch television and laze around.

On the first day of Chinese New Year, my relatives will start coming to our house and soon I will go back to my paternal side for lunch and I will stay there for almost the whole day unless we go and visit our other relatives. And we will have to travel from one end to the other end of Singapore. And this will be routine for the next three days for this year’s Chinese New Year. Many times, when we go aorund visiting our relatives, i won't really know them well because i only see them that once in that year thus we aren't close at all.

This year's Chinese New Year was also a special one because i went out with all my cousins for the first time without any adults around. We went to watch a movie and played at the arcade. Watching a movie with cousins and friends is totally a different feeling. Same thing playing at the arcade. I really had an enjoyable Chinese New Year.

I really loved this year’s Chinese New Year because the first two days falls on Thursday and Friday respectively. Then we will have a long weekend because it will be the weekends on the third and fourth day. But it’s also tiring because I will always get home very late and go out early in the morning. And I always have to rush through my homework.

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