2nd Feb 2008

Yesterday 2nd Feb was a rather busy day for us. We woke up early as we wanted to go and attend a Chinese New Year Celebration at Bankstown. After doing the laundry we set off at about 9 plus. We were not familiar with the place so we walked a long way before reaching the celebration venue.

There was a huge crowd and before long the lion dance commenced and there was a lot of loud noises. Channery can't stand the loud noise and kept clinging on to me. As we were catching the bubbles at one corner, they started to light the fire crackers and that was really loud. Everyone was really excited to see the firing of the fire crackers but I am one who really don't quite like playing with fire. What if soemthing catch fire or a child went too close. Anyway, I was just observing the people and nobody really bothers too much. There were many stalls and the stalls actually has more displays of Vietnamese Chinese NEw Year Stuff. The embriodery, the Traditional costumes etc. Bankstowns has more vietnamese than Chinese so their celebration is not so Chinese afterall. We had balloon sculptures and bought some food goodies. I also bought a beautiful Vietnamese Cheong Sum for Charlynn and she will wear that for Chinese New Year. It cost only $15. As for the boys, I have yet to buy new clothes for them. Better get them at least a T shirt.

When we are on our way home, we walked passed Salvos store and decided to go in. We are looking for a bookcase for Children. Somehow we did not get the bookcase as planned and gotten an ikea shelf. We had to unscrew everything and that took up a bit of time. By the time Joe went to pick up the car, it was already 1 plus so I went to buy some pizza for the kids. The pizzas were nice and each large piece was $3. I bought 4 and that was enough to feed the whole family. An unpleasant thing happend when we were loading the shelf and children. Joe parked his car by the roadside and a car came beside us. The driver rolled down his side window and scolded us "stupid". We were both taken by surprise. He was supposed to wait since we got there first and the fact that he was able to drive bypass us means we had definitely done our part to be a considerate driver. The driver is a young man and his rude attitude really disgusting. Hope my children will not grow up to be like him. Some Australians really need to know what is courtesy.
I was angry for a while but we decided to put this matter behind us as he is simply not worth our attention.

When we reached home I cooked Bak Kyu teh as it was raining and I think it will be so nice to drink the soup. The end result is Yummy and nice. We had nice dinner and watched the movie
"Garfield". We love the Tv Programmes here as there are a lot of choices and we can have nice programmes.