Chinese New Year, Sitiawan… Some Time Ago

The Nineties kind of rushed by me, as if I can’t wait to be somewhere but it looks more, as time goes by, like I will not be reaching there anytime soon. So a lot of the details of the time here were quite blurry. Take the following photos of the ACS gang balik kampung and gathering for Chinese New Year. What year did this occur? I can’t rightly remember.

All I remember is that I picked up the gentlebeings in the first photo below, had some refreshment at Woon Seong’s house before we all went to Teik Sing’s house where the big daytime gathering was planned.

At Woon Seong's house

At Woon Seong’s house

The gathering was quiet enjoyable. As I remembered Teik Sing just got back from Austin… Hang on. I can’t remember if he’s back for vacation or for good.

Kuan Wong, Lee Nah, Julia, Teik Sing, Yoke Fong and Dean

Kuan Wong, Lee Nah, Julia, Teik Sing, Yoke Fong and Dean

Yu Hoe, Ming Fang and Shahar

Yu Hoe, Ming Fang and Shahar

Woon Seong, Raymond and Kuan Wong

Woon Seong, Raymond and Kuan Wong

I think Teik Sing was showing us his Mayan artefacts and literature

I think Teik Sing was showing us his Mayan artefacts and literature

Yu Hoe contemplates bringing arrows to work

Yu Hoe contemplates bringing arrows to work

After the daytime gathering was over, we reconvened at Yu Hoe’s house that night for more festivities.

Gnana on the left, observing Teik Sing and Kuan Wong

Gnana on the left, observing Teik Sing and Kuan Wong

Not eveyone was present, but it was quite a lot

Not eveyone was present, but it was quite a lot

Of course, the other explanation why I can’t remember a lot of details is because I’ve gone nyanyok.

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Khairul Hisham J. is a freelance artist, writer, editor, translator, English language teacher and a long time tabletop role-playing game player and gamemaster.

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