After we had our hoi leen lunch to kick off the new year (see what we ate on my food blog), we visited my favorite uncle on my side of the family. We have so much to talk about we spent the entire afternoon chatting and laughing over pots and pots of Chinese tea which my aunt kept refilling.
It’s funny, this uncle of mine used to treat me like a kid. To me, he’s the big man, very serious and worldly wise who has no time for petty talk and women’s gossips.
But over the years, I guess he must’ve discovered I’m not much good at the usual women’s chit-chat but prefer topics like business, politics and education. Maybe that’s why I have such a hard time fitting in with the ah soh‘s and aunty types.
At any rate, he and I talked up a storm while my other aunts and cousins indulged in their own conversations or listened in on ours. For such a serious guy, he sure has a surprisingly funny way of looking at things and he really cracks me up 
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So that’s the highlight of my Chinese New Year. I’m planning to visit this uncle more often this year. I seriously enjoy talking to him.
2 Responses to “second day of Chinese New Year”
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There are more of us un-girly-girls than I realized! Aren’t you glad you weren’t born 100 years ago, when we would have had no choice but to fit in? Now we can be ourselves.
@wendy
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Exactly right, at least we don’t have to pretend