{"id":204,"date":"2009-01-27T22:19:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T22:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2009-01-27T22:19:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T22:19:20","slug":"1st-cny-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"1st CNY in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hardly anyone celebrates CNY here.. duh! it&#8217;s an angmo place.. haha.. so.. there&#8217;s little CNY mood&#8230; shops are all open.. i guess the closest to the CNY celebration is at Chinatown? the in-laws are here.. we went to chinatown and were greeted by Lion and Dragon dance.. haha.. nice.. but mood still nt there? nt loud enuff?<\/p>\n<p>this CNY is the BUSIEST for me so far.. hmm&#8230; usually, my mum prepares the food&#8230; i juz look on and &#8216;help out&#8217; as much as i can&#8230; this year, i did most of the marketing and food prepartion&#8230; except for last night, MIL made ngo hiang and fried vege.. i made bak kut teh for dinner&#8230; after dinner, need to clean the kitchen and wash the dishes&#8230; so&#8230; it&#8217;s very busy&#8230; oh well.. i feel so grown up man.. last time my mum do all these, i juz sat down and eat&#8230; like i&#8217;m a &#8216; thousand dollar small sister&#8217; (translate in chinese) hee<\/p>\n<p>this CNY is the PLAINEST for me as well&#8230; i nv do my hair.. nv buy new clothes&#8230; nv dress up.. nv go out&#8230; so many things tt i didn&#8217;t do&#8230; i come here be &#8216;cow&#8217;.. who say come here and be &#8216;tai-tai&#8217;!! argh &#8230;tt&#8217;s coz i didn&#8217;t thnk HARD enuff to mk this decision&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BH and i are very exhausted.. not from sex.. (man.. the weather is tooooooo cold for anything) but from entertaining our guests who came all the way from sg&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>oh well.. so what i did on the 1st day of new yr, i went to the gym and i cooked, wash and clean&#8230; so auntie right? \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m sure all of u have a very good time with ur family.. i can only talk to my family online and view the delicious food tt my mum prepared on webcam&#8230; festive times like this only mk me miss my family more&#8230; i&#8217;m so jealous of BH whose family is here now \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>sidetrack:<\/p>\n<p>1) it snowed again.. nt heavy n the weather is still ultra cold&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2) windows 7 is very cool! design is very nice.. and the beta version can be downloaded! here&#8217;s the site: http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windows-7\/beta-download.aspx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hardly anyone celebrates CNY here.. duh! it&#8217;s an angmo place.. haha.. so.. there&#8217;s little CNY mood&#8230; shops are all open.. i guess the closest to the CNY celebration is at Chinatown? the in-laws are here.. we went to chinatown and were greeted by Lion and Dragon dance.. haha.. nice.. but mood still nt there? nt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1st CNY in Seattle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}