Taiwan, Day 2 -family

christmas wasn't celebrated as a holiday in taiwan.
so its back to work and back to school for all the people in taiwan.

woke up early in the morning and went to visit 表舅and his family.
when my mum mentioned about my cousin who just recently hanged herself, 表舅 and my mum started sobbing.
it wasn't a pleasant sight.

for the rest of the trip, it was like this.
in the sense that my mum would keep talking about pei chien as though she were still alive.

we didnt visit her grave in the end.
guess it was still too painful for 表舅.. to rip open unhealed wounds.

anyways, they ended up taking us to this steamboat joint.
and then there was this 3 hour long awkward conversation with my other cousin.
like, what am i supposed to say to someone i haven't met in 15 years!
especially, how am i supposed to have a conversation in chinese?!

man it was like a pained conversation between chickens and ducks.

anyways, the steamboat joints there are fantastic.
apparently some would give out free flow of haagen daaz or meiji icecream!!!

in the evening, we waited and waited for hours for my sister to arrive at our meeting place.
because her class ended late, we had to wait even longer.
we were all feeling really grumpy because we all missed her so.

and guess what was the first thing she said when she saw us.
KANASAI.
-_-"

oh well. had dinner as a family for the first time in months!
mum bombarded her with questions and before long, they were quarelling again.
not the fierce type. the joking type.
peppered with loads of kanasai-s.

this rowdy family scene once again became familiar.