Hey, don’t question me, not my doing LMFAO. 🤣

(Very frugal parents… literally every thing gets repurposed for something else. There are still stuff in the house that is never fixed… heater randomly quits working, bathtub randomly leaks water downstairs, refrigerator sometimes lets icecream melt, roach infestation… don’t judge xD, not my fault. And my family is no longer poor anymore, not as of currently, just refuses to spend money to fix stuff since they grew up in poverty. Literally every penny gets invested)

Red envelopes that my mom asked me for it to “help me keep it safe” 🫠

So in my experience, it’s all just a big show, its performance.

My cat doesn’t even wanna touch any “human food”, only eats catfood. You can out fresh fish and she will not eat it. Only smell it.

In China, it used to be that there was food insecurity and cats just, unfortunately, get fed scraps of leftover food basically, and they actually had to eat mice.

Idk what happens in new years… probably get fed better? maybe? idk

My cat never eats the mouse, only kills them and leave them around. Sometimes my cat leave them half-dead and the mouse runs away.

So my cat is a privilaged American cat that gets to eats catfood whenever she wants, all year round lol

OMG 我屬馬嘅 I’m gonna be 24 this year after my birthday

Going off on a tangent:

But its funny how because 落地占歲 I’m technically unofficially 25 since I was considered 1 years old at birth??? (cuz 9 months spent inside a womb apparantly counts lmfao), and new years, even before your official birthday counts… towards your age…

So I ask my grandma, what happens if you were born the day before new years?

So you just become unofficially “2 years old”, 1 day after your birth cuz of weird shenanigans… where you are 1 years old at birth, then on new years your age counts uo by 1?!? lmfao

So I was like “A 16 year + 1 day old person can say they’re 18 then?”

I don’t think a Mainlander can walk into a bar in China and get alcohol that way, only legal age counts lmfao, not this 迷信 stuff

But anyways… I kinda wanna magically become a horse and run around wild

My older brother was born in '97, the year of the Handover from British, so he got to visit HK fore free for bring born that year (or something like that, maybe I misheard), so that’s why we went to HK for tourism as family… so long ago… I can barely remember.

My paternal grandpa would say something like: 牛耕田，馬食谷。 Because he’s 屬牛 I’m 屬馬 so my brother didn’t like that saying lmfao.

Anyways: 新年快樂

Family of Origin is so frustrating tho… 煩死啦

Oops I said the 死 字

新年流流，唔好意頭 or something… i dont really care anymore…

How I feel right now as a naturalized US citizen:

P.S. It’s even more complicated in my situation, since my citizenship is technically called derived citizenship which mean I have citizenship because it comes from the fact that my mother became a citizen when I was a was under 18 so I automatically got citizenship status. I’m not a lawyer, but a quick search online apparantly says if my mother somehow gets denatualized, I could lose it too, through no fault of my own.

So… yea… mom pls don’t do weird shady shit… (I don’t know if she has any “skeletons in the closet”)

👀

As a Chinese American, this resonates with me so much, I feel them. I’ve been through those similar footsteps as that kid, I was about the same age when I first got here, I was in second grade. But I’ve never been separated like that… I mean… I feel sad when I was in school, in an environment where almost nobody spoke my language (besides like a few classmates that were born here and grew up bilingual), and I felt alone, and my mother would pick me up from school like very late from the after school program that ran until 6PM, being separated from parents for just a few hours was already anxiery inducing enough, but this kid is now facing much worse than I ever did. I was also in NYC, so I can almost picture that scene… of being alone, and scared. I mean being separated like that, for extended period of time… who know how long this could be… must be terrifying, leaving your home country and trying to find a better life… only to get rejected by the country you are trying seeking help in.

My family are legal, I’m a US Citizen now, but still, imagine if this admin was in power back around 2010s when I first arrived and didn’t have citizenship status… and on that topic, my dad is still not a citizen yet (English is hard for adults)… so um… we could still theoretically get separated at any moment if this admin tries anything… 👀