Chinese New Year

Just spent about two days in Jalan Jemaluang, Mersing, Malaysia to celebrate new year at my Grandma's place. It's those old shophouses but the provision shop that it used to be on the 1st floor has already been closed down and serves as living room now. 2nd storey consists of a living room and a stretch of about 6 rooms where my mum and her 6 sisters and 2 brothers used to live in as a child.
Did nothing much there on the first day except lazing around or chatting with my cousin, Shu, who lives in Singapore too (me, my mum and her went back to Malaysia together). We had reunion dinner and there were around 20 cousins and relatives,we occupied two tables, in the past we 'll need about 4 tables to go around but this year, less than half of the relatives returned.
We spent the second day still lazing around and we had vegetarian food as a ritual on the 1st day of Lunar New Year, we played poker (brought to Mersing by yours truly, the ever-gambler) and ate every snack we can find that does not contain eggs and other non-vegetarian products.
The 3rd day we played poker all day and almost everyone was involved, we actually taught my youngest auntie how to play Big Two (laughs evilly), however she's a fast learner (guess gambling's in our genes) and actually won some money after few rounds.
My nephews arrived later in the afternoon and we played Black Jack with 'em, all less than 10 years old and played with 10 or 20 cents, i had to keep providing a 7 yr old little nephew Ah Jian coins because he would look depressed everytime he loses. The kids learned to play Black Jack after about 30 mins into the game (told ya it's in the genes) before we had dinner and leaves for Singapore.
It was a nice trip and Mersing is a lovely rural-urban area, an elder cousin drove us to a lake and it was beautiful, the journey was less than a minute and I was surprised how something so surreal can exist in Mersing.
Everything was good except my auntie-in-law who's the evil stepmum kinda person all the time and most relatives I know doesnt like her much. She asked why my Dad didnt go back to Malaysia for so long and I wonder is she faking ignorance or doesnt she know I dont live with my damned dad anymore. I heard this aunt-in-law of mine also complained to my Grandma about her 3 sons not giving her money more New Year when they didnt give my Grandma either, my Grandma had to persuade them to give money and one of them gave my aunt-in-law 50 RM, to which she complained was too little compared to 100 RM the year before. Some people are just never satisfied.
Another bad thing that happened was this ROC girl one of my cousins got as a fiancee, she's not those educated ROC ppl we see all the time, she's not really good in her language and she's a smoker (though most of the male cousins and uncles in Malaysia were) and an avid gambler. She throws the cards with a loud smack and I could almost hear my cards scream, and she never really participates in our cards games directly. She would modestly reject when we told her to join but stand behind us, look at our cards, and shouting out which card we should out or sometimes even snatch the card out and throw it for us. Come on, if u wanna play, grab a seat. If not, shut up and just watch.
The fun part was the card games and my youngest niece, Ting Ting, who's nine months old and such a dear, anyone can carry her and I've never heard her cry or whine during my stay, she's always in a good mood and smiling, gotta love that baby gurl!