So I’m back home after 5 days of eating and gambling. It’s the first ever sober CNY because mom was staring me every time I went near the bar. I’d like to apologize to everyone I didn’t catch up with. It was too short a trip to do anything except the obligatory smile and answer when aunts and uncles repeat the same questions they do every year.
I don’t think I could do CNY if mom wasn’t that insistent on the family doing it. The noise, the relatives and the weight one inadvertently puts on really does irritate me. The only upside is the CASH, and I keep telling myself it’s shopping money so bear with it. CNY really does feel more and more like a chore and I’m glad that the family is planning on going away next year, hopefully to somewhere cold and CNY-less 
