January 15th of Luner

Yes! It’s Lantern Festival today. I had totally forgotten this until I called my mom today. It was so noisy when I was talking to her. And she said “ Hey! It’s Lantern Festival today and lots of people are playing firecrackers in the street.” Since my grandmother has been staying in the hospital again, I called my mom’s cell phone instead of home so that I could talk with my grandma also. I told my mom that I fell last week, and seems like she told everyone because every time my aunts saw me online they asked “Are you okay? Did you fall seriously?” And so did grandma, she asked me about it every time I call her after my mom has told her I fell. I told her I’m totally fine. She said “Yes, I can’t really see you so you can say you’re fine. Tell me the truth!” But actually I’m really fine now. That’s the truth. I told her that I’ll be back in 4 months and then she can see me. She said that she’d like to cook the dumplings which we eat at Lantern Festival. Well, what she said made me more likely to eat that. She asked me if I have that kind of dumplings here, I said no but had eaten some when I was in Canada.

Lantern Festival is the last day of Chinese New Year. And I did get red envelop from my parents this year which really surprised me. And they even gave me much more than before. I didn’t ask for it but when they said they’re going to send me some money and asked how much I want, I didn’t ask for a lot. They said an amount which was 10 times more than the amount I wanted. I told them I didn’t need that much. Dad said “That’s okay. It’s for your red envelop.” I didn’t expect to get any red envelop this year since they said it was the last time they’d give me red envelop last CNY. So when Dad said it’s for my red envelop, I replied “Red envelop? I still can get it this year?” Dad said “Yeah, it’s from both of your mom and I, don’t be too frugal to yourself.” Ahh~ I could smell the air of CNY on the last day of Chinese CNY. I think they should give me a lantern since they’re going to send me a package this week.

I saw this dog which was locked in a car at a parking place on my way to the supermarket this morning. How it looks at people looks like the way how Bagel looks at me. Even though they're not the same kind of dogs. I still felt interesting when I saw its eyes.