Gah...i will need to go visiting tomorrow...help!
I dislike it...it's boring. Not that well-meaning relatives are asking so many questions about your life and bearing with the smoke. Most of my relatives are heavy-smokers, meaning I will have to suffocate there with a plastic smile fixed on my face. It takes a whole lot of self-control to do that you know. You'll have to look interested in celebrating this festive season and smile at everyone and shake their hands. I mean, it's not as if I dislike them or what. No offence here though! i mean, yes, I like my relatives. Then why does it seem like a chore to visit them? I don't know too. It's just that, it is really difficult to converse with them. Really. I much rather sit through a D&T lesson plus have another cross-country than to visit. My cousins and me are different. It's the same with my relatives. They speak mostly hokkien which I don't even understand save for some swear words which I rather not use. If not, they will speak Chinese. I know that's my mother tongue. Let me tell you though: Chinese is not my forte. which means if they speak to me in those two, I will have difficulties understanding and I will stare at them, thinking: what the hell are you talking about?!
Anyone gets the picture so far? It's rare for my aunties and uncles to speak to me in English, the universal language. My mum do sympathises with me. She at least knows what monotonous mental turmoil I have to go through every year.
So yes, I do like my relatives, I mean, without them, there wouldn't be my mum, and without her, I wouldn't be here at all. It's just that, we have our differences. BUT, I'm trying to learn hokkien now. So, I'm making an effort...keeping my fingers crossed...hokkien is quite confusing though. I always pronounce the words wrongly, coz it sounds so much like teochew. I don't know how to speak teochew but Cynthia, a friend, who is teochew, ever taught me a few words. Both sounds alike anyway. teochew and hokkien I mean.
lols, so sorry to those who have to bear my lamentings about my relatives and me. Not that you all will be interested in how awful my hokkien is...-.-

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