I left the office damn early to get a ox of yusheng, while rushing over for reunion lunch with my paternal. reunion lunch is a norm for us, cuz we would gather for a prayer to our ancestors and eat together. also, each of us has our own family, so afternoon reunion lunch would be the most appropriate.
kevin called on my way there and ask if they could feature our reunion lunch for tomolo straits times. i called daddy and he agreed and all of us get so excited about it.
there were 5 families in the house (3 room flat) and u can see we are all cramped and squeezed and its of course noisy! well, every year we meet, there would be question and answers where the adults will ask: are u working or studying? where u doing ur internship? when u graduating? blah blah blah...
and then they will see whether u have grown prettier/ fatter / taller or shorter and some other funny things la.
next, they will ask: wheres ur bf la? u got bf anot la? bring him here la...blah blah blah.
then at 130pm when the ST photographer came, they will start discussing: oh is he ur bf?1 wah so shuai! and they will bomb him with questions like: when isist gona be published? when u all write article? wad u all gona write abt? blah blah blah... (and i only know his name 15 minutes earlier than them)
my aunties are so kind, gave him mandarin oranges and $10 ang bao.
he lucky chap. AND YET! NEVER PUBLISHED US! so sad!
EVENT 2:
REUNION DINNER WITH MATERNAL SIDE
then after leaving the house, we went heartland mall to shop awhile. i got 2 pyjamas and mummy got 2 pants. then we went jubao restaurant (at teck chye terrace) to collect poon choi 盆菜. i thought, since i have start working now, so i should use my salary to contribute abit, so i decided to buy poon choi from this hk restaurant jubao at 138 dollars. i ibnterviewed them for my mag and this chef is a hk big chef previously from lei garden, so i thought / assume it would be nice! ( i thought they wont charge mi for the poon chai! haha. sadly, they did!)
this claypot looks durable isnt it!
ta-deh! all the seafood! all the calories and cholestrol! wonderful!
my reunion dinner! now i noe why i cannot grow skinny. haha
so after eating, while we were clearing up and heating the claypot, somth happen!
MY STOVE IS ON FIRE!
While my aunty was panicking, i still took out my camera and took pictures of it. my aunty dun noe whether to kill mi 1st or save the pot /stove first. haha. we tried sprinkle water but failed. then i start blaming the loisy pot which melts when it is on fire.
after investigating, it wasnt the pot, but the plastic handle that got stuck underneath the pot and when it goes to the fire, the handle melt!
so what happen in the end? the stove is spoilt. and the claypot was thrown away, the expensive seafood in the pot was thrown away too cuz its poisonous. and well done. say bye bye to my 138!! :(
nvm la, for our safety...hai!
anyway, after tt i was contemplating whether to join the cac guys at lunar bar tt night. but i dun wana miss the andy lau show and the new year countdown so i decided to give it a miss.
CNY DAY 1:
it was a hot and sunny day. mummy, daddy and i went to spore buddhist youth mission at 12pm to eat the free vegetarian mee sua and fried bee hoon for lunch. we do that every year, partly cuz my daddy's student is there to help out and invited us over, secondly, we always give our offerings tduring 1st day of cny.
and guess what, THAT WAS NOT THE END!
My mummy, thinking tt it was nt enuf, wan daddy to drove us to si ma lu guan yin temple to pray again. so we went there adn damnit la, knowing it was cny day 1, and it would so crowded, we were sweating like mad and there were thousands of people there, 6 policemen to control crowd and people were rushing to get into the temple. so being too squeezy, mummy said we just pray outside. -_-
look at the crowd!
so after tt, we went to Mustafa. our usual shppping place during cny day 1 and its daddy's fav cuz its the only shop tt is open, its big and it has everythign there. but i dun really like it cuz i was surrounded by all indians and all the indian smell.so being v bored, i tried all perfumes. whoohoo!
got home, stinky, smelly, iand tired, i went to sleep.
look how dirty my yaya is! but i love her no matter wad. :D
after brushing up, we went for dinner at 3 aunty' house. it is a annual thing there. we used to look forward there, as we can play with our other cousins. but well, its no longer the case.
but i still look forward there, cuz i can see them. 毕竟一年只有那么一次.
big family, table not enuf, so we seperate to children's table and adult's table.
look at how these children have grown and mature...从熟悉变陌生...
nan de we meet, how can we miss cam whoring?
Look at the gamblers in the house
CNY DAY 2
went visiting from mroning with my ah gong, parents and aunties. our 1st stop is in ubi, visiting my grandaunty's son. then the shocking thing came.
we went to the house and we found a maid! -_-
so we wondered, wah so rich hur, still hire maid. but to our surprise, the maid say our relative move house 5 mths ago already! shocked, we called other relatives to ask if they kow where they move to, but nobody knows. the tel line was cut off and the onli thing we found out was, this family borrowed 20k from my granduncle.
why? gambling la.
the father of this family gambles everything, toto, 4d, footbal...and the last time i saw them, the wife was weeping, telling us how her husband gambles until no money.
hai...the only conclusion we get is borrow money from loan sharks. cuz they didnt contact any relatives at all, didnt go for reunion dinner nor visit us like they used to in the past.
it sounded ridiculous and it became the topic of the day, with us going to other relatives and discussing abt the issue, making illogical conculsions. and my aunty was laughing at herselves for still sending chinese new year cards over. -_-
well, another broken family. hai,poor kids...
then i met ting in late afternoon, intending to watch ah long pte ltd but didnt manage to get any tickets so we ended up spending 52 bucks in kbox, for 2 persons. well, i haven seen her for like a year since this woman is busy pat tor-ing and im busy with all the shit. haha, cny is a got time for us to catch up.
so that concludes the day and i guess i will see her next year?
CNY DAY 3
i was rotting at home, watching korean vcd and waiting for 3pm to come. aunty had booked a ktv room in Grassroot country club. its much much cheaper than kbox. this one onli 68 for 1 room (4-5people).
yesterday i sing, today i continue singing. -_-
cold until my hand shivers. haha
the day ended with dinner. chris jio mi for a ktv session at night in party world, and i rejected cuz im getting so tired of singing. haha
CNY DAY 4
MY COOKING DAY!
I volunteered myself to cook yerterday's dinner and get aunty, daddy and mummy to come and try my dishes. so after lunch, yeye accompanied mi to sheng siong tog rab my ingredients, bought prawns, carrots, herbsetc and went home. but realised it wasnt enuf, so i went ntuc alone to grab more items.
where do i learn from? the latest se xiang wei feb issue!
they realli have delicious and easy to make dishes, and it complements cny! so i came home and found my relative coming to my hse visit.
adn the thing is...i left 1 se xiang wei magazine, which is important to mi for now cuz i need the recipes for tonight's dinner. then kind ye ye, gave it to my relative, and i m like, staring in blank space and dunnoe wad to do with the ingredients! so in the end, i asked my relative for the magazine, copied down the recipes and returned to her. i started preparing from 2pm and ended cooking at 530pm! whoohoo! this are all the dishes i prepared!
so happy cuz everyone find them ok and they love my prawns! this time i used the correct sauce and it tasted yummy!
i personally love the mushrooms cuz i think its nicely braised (for 1 hr). but a pity its abit salty.
i shall cook for them again soon! whee!
after dinner, i left hurriedly for barnabas tuition and gosh, i came back felling so tireddddddd! (the mom gave mi ang bao! so nice!)
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