Happy Chinese New Year! Yesterday! Ouchie. Food overload. All those stupid pineapple tarts... :( At the beginning, they may seem really nice, but after ahile you just get so sick of them!! Just the same old pineapple things with the same old pineapple crust thing. :D *bleaugh* And they all taste the same!!

So... yesterday was another busy busy day:D Went to a house where all of us, a.k.a all the cousins from all three generations:D, meet together. It's a huge, and I mean HUGE house, with a HUGE garden. It's times like this when you realize you really need to expand on your voacbulary and find another word for 'huge'. It's quite funny, because we only meet twice a year. During lunch, there's a table for the adults, and another for the children. Sounds normal doesn't it? haha it would be, except that the adults are all 80+ and the children are 40+. :D So I suppose us younglings come under the little kiddies who just pop up and suddenly 15 years later wow! they're teenagers! Anyway so we had lunch, then we went to (believe it or not) Cold Storage!! :D Hey, we're strange people! :D BTW, those 'natural confectionary' gummy wormies are the best! Happily chewy:D The dinosaurs are good too.

So we went back again, and we made two teepees. :D you know those sparklers? Yeah, well a few years back, about four or so, we started this tradition of pilling them all together, arranging them in a tent/teepee style. They have to be touching, and there has to be a central one. So you light the central one, and it's just awesome! Everything flames up! It works even better if you twine a few sparklers together, then line then up. It's more explosive, but doesn't last for so long. We do one evrey Christmas, new year, and chinese new year:D FUN. haha it's quite cool cos it can get so hot, it burns the grass. Usually we do it atnight, during New Year, and we wake up and look at the ground. There's this great big black, charred thing in the middle of the green. :D

Let's see if I can find a picture... hmm ok there are a fe, but from a few years ago.














This is what it looks like burning! It's not a great one though, cos I was too busy taking a video:D














AND this is what it looks like before you light it.

:D We did a spot of gambling after dinner. Blackjack! We seriously need to find other card games to gamble with. Like Poker. My sis won $48!!!!!!! But hey! I won $4! That's NOT BAD! :D

Hey Christine! That bloody tagboard won't work!

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