Chinese new year 2020

Hullo gorgeous people! it is the eve of Chinese New Year and i am super exited for tonight. the fam has been planning a super hot pot dinner for a while now and its finally happening tonight. theres soup boiling now in the kitchen and we have so many of my favourite fish balls and veggies lined up. we reached ipoh yesterday around the evening and we did some spring cleaning too.
the house is super stacked with snacks and drinks and ive been eating so many of them. i like really cripsy stuff so all the deep fried fish snacks and nuts are really nice to have around. im also a huge fan of mandarin oranges and im super good at peeling them. if there were a contest for orange peeling i'd win it for sure.
since its a festive season, there hasnt been much to do out of the house. plenty of stores are closed and the malls are beyond crowded. sometimes shopping crowds get really rowdy too. plus, theres an influenza virus spreading, thats super dangerous. i do realise that in public a lot of people dont know the proper etiquette when it comes to coughing or sneezing so its best just to stay home. stay safe, everyone. i strongly recommend not leaving the house actually. home base is the safest.
ive been catching up on my rest and i didnt know how much i needed it. university life is tiring. with the extra time on my hands ive actually been reflecting on life. sometimes it gets a little scary so i try not to do it so much. it's a new year, im turning 22, super close to when people have that quarter life crisis. im already 2 years into my second decade and i have no idea how the time just passed me by.
i like to keep busy and channel all my energy into positive thoughts. ive been saying. 'i love myself' a lot cause i feel all giggly when i say it. it may sound a bit narcissistic but i think i'd rather love myself than hate myself (something i learned about from a netflix show actually). when i say it im also reminded of how blessed and how loved i am. ive even planned a surprise valentines gift for myself this year. i cant wait to do a valentines day post.

im super thankful for this laptop that mom and dad got me this year. its the coolest laptop ever and i get to watch netflix, play games, and write my blog post on it. it's been keeping me entertained a bunch. but i also have to use it for school stuff. and a lot of school stuff too since theres so many assignments and presentations to do. i really like gaming and i have a game in my head that im gonna target next. its called Overcooked and it seems really fun. i watched some streams and its so funny. i really wish i could do super cool streams too but i think i need a lot of fancy camera equipment. i used to like watching mukbangs and i wanted to stream mukbangs then when i watch gamers stream, i wanna stream myself playing games. the constant is that i really wanna try it. its a signnnn... i have to do it someday. i really miss making youtube videos actually. i promise i'll get back to making videos soon too. my pink camera is the cutest.
yesterday i had a super fun family lunch💓. i wish i made a youtube video from that. we had yee sang and really nice tea. i was really excited about that lunch. it was the first yee sang we had this year but i was excited for more reasons than that. its almost dinner and i should get ready.
see you later alligator.

happy 2020!!

hullooo you gorgeous people!! this will be my first post of the year 2020 so i'll be wishing yall a happy new year a little bit late. HAPPY NEW YEAR. 😇
2019 went by pretty quick but thats okay cause ill be looking positively forward toward the future. i didnt do much to celebrate the new year but i did have a sushi party and a pizza party and it was super. i didnt do a post for the whole month of December last year but that was because i was so intensely busy. i had finals and family stories happening. i wont talk about it much but i will say good news is that everyone's fine and healthy now👏. that month was a really big month of maturing for me. i had to study for finals, do so much traveling by train on my own and it was also the first time i drove to KL on the highway. i also had the least contact with family at this point. everyone was going through something so i had to take care of myself, my meals, making sure i eat veggies, stay hydrated and also financing all my groceries and travel costs. im thankful that i was able to be there for everyone as well as maintain my own health.

a new semester will start about a week from now and im looking forward to my new classes. this holiday has been a quiet one. i didnt go on any trips but im enjoying spending time with my mantao. im always going to remember how blessed i am to have him. driving me places, encouraging me when i feel like a potato and taking care of me when i dont feel well. this year was the first time in my life that i spent christmas on my own. i was sick with an ear infection and the antibiotics didnt help until the last dose. i felt cold, dizzy and i couldnt eat. when the headache was too much to bear, my mantao called at just the right moment and i felt better once we talked. the day after christmas he came to find me all the way from a trip he was on.

my safety 💓

right now my mantao and i are resting up as much as we can before the rush of the new sem kicks in. we're playing a bunch of computer games and ive come to like it maybe a bit too much. there are a few games that i wanna write so much about but i think i'll save that to make a whole post about it. i like cute, farming games and the one that im playing all day right now is Stardew Valley. it is the most fast paced farming game ever and its so much fun. i tried playing the mantao's favourite game, Overwatch, a couple nights back and there was so much yelling involved. it was fun to finally try it out but i dunno if i can play it on a regular basis. 

other than gaming we have also unofficially adopted 2 stray cats. these cats were hungry and they made too much noise around the house so we decided to feed them- George and Georgina. Georgina is actually a preggo cat so we're reading up on how to care for her and the kittens. we feed them twice a day and play with them when they start screeching for attention. there are more stary cats around and as much as we would like to feed them too, our resources are limited and we dont wanna make our cats jelly. 

i havent made any new years resolutions but i wanna make sure that this year i will pay more attention to my health. physical and mental health alike. also i promised someone that this year i would start tracking my finances haha. i will chose to move forward in the year with happiness and love. 

time to say goodnight. see you later alligator.