Happy Chinese New Year to all of you. Hope your CNY has been a good one. This CNY has been a rather tiring affair for me. Perhaps I was sleeping very late every night, hence leading to dull skin and dark eye circles.
But anyway, the usual visiting and feasting begins from the eve eve of CNY:
Mypaper had a company lunch at Orchard Hotel Hua Ting. Arranged by my boss, it was of course a big feast at a special price! Our team filled two tables and there was deer meat in goose liver sauce, sharks fins in crab roe soup etc, and the usual lo hei session.
CNY EVE
Then come CNY eve where it will always be reunion lunch with the paternal family, and reunion dinner with the maternal family.
Wonder why, but this year, both sides has not enough rice for all! -.- is there a shortage of rice or we have just been eating too much? So my rice for lunch and dinner is only one scoop with lotsa dishes.
Lunch: curry chicken, hainanese chap chai, chicken, 1 fried fish (to share among 10 youngsters), one fried egg (they realise there were not enough food also, so the aunties last minute fried an egg! GG)
Took a OW family photo before Da Gu Ma leaves for China for holiday the next day.
So dinner: BIG fish, prawns (and lotsa it in two dishes), sea cucumber, prawn rolls, chicken, duck, etc. Alot. Alot. Alot.
And after dinner we got to prepare to welcome the God of Fortune!
My wall, decorated with tiger bear, hello kitty and winne the pooh! HOHOHO!~
Nice right, whalou eh, do u know it's damn hard to cut out the "Chun" word? It took me 15 mins just to cut one and i gave up. HAHA. I cut one, go down meet Ephraim, come back and they are done! Good job! :p
The nian gao. HUAT AH!
The banana also so nice!~
The mandarin oranges....
The nuts...the black one, the green one, the cashew one...u name it, we have it.
And all these dried stuffs, for praying...
Last but not least, tadeh! pineapple tarts from Ephraim! I told him to buy me pineapple tarts and he really went to source for it! How sweet, it's made by his mummy's friend! Flaky and yummy!~
So the praying and watching tv ended at 1AM.
CNY DAY 1
Basically my CNY has alot of rest time. I oke up at 10am, makaned, talked to my cousins and aunties who visited us as I waited for Daddy and Mummy to come and pick me.
Go where?
Si Ma Lu for prayers and see people squeeze people.
Then come back, took a 2 hours nap and get ready for the gathering of paternal family at San Gu Ma's place aka An's house. This has to be the one and only reason why I need to buy pretty CNY clothes. Just for this occasion. Without this annual affair, my CNY is boring.
So the "adults"...
Cousin Ruo Yuan had this very tootie specs and all of us were "forced" to take a picture with it. So that's tingting....
Me!
Jovin!
Ruo Yuan (owner of the toot specs) plus tingting and me! San Duo Hua!~ *pukes* haha
Tingting & her mummy
Ken
An trying to snap his doggie Hazel
Big Uncle
They are watching... er? Some zhou xing chi show...
The MJ people...
The pig
The Ban Luk people. Ok, im belong here too!
I don't know why my Dad looks weird here
We are too bored, so we took photo of the TV
An with Doggie Hazel
San Gu Ma, An's mummy is pretty isnt it?
Us!
He is drinking water
My Mum
Don't be deceive by her. Tingting is actually very scared... LOL
I like this picture :) Well taken by me, though Im really scared of dogs.
See how far I sit and how timid i am
The familar staircase
That we used to run around when we were young
Tingting bought bird nests for me and ah yi to thank us for going down to support her in the campus reporter competition. bird nest! slurps, thanku sis! :D
Went home at 10pm. Ah yi and i stayed up till 2AM to watch 200 pounds beauty.
CNY DAY 2
Basically it starts off with more visiting with the maternal family. Then came back home by 3pm and took my beauty nap again before heading to River AngBao with the family.
It's held in Floating Platform. There wasn't much this year, abit disappointed. :(
I bought a durian nian gao from peony jade at keppel club so after the river ang bao, anyi accompanied me there to take the nian gao. and omfg, keppel club is damn ulu and dark adn quiet, we reached there around 930pm and it was so scary...
After collection, went home to catch CJ7 till 130am.
CNY DAY 3
Having holiday at cny day 3 is a plus point cuz usually all of us has to start work on day 2. So fungie and i went marina barrage and river ang bao to take photos!~
*Maureen Ow likes this*
Then to river ang bao!~ by this time, im already SUN BURN! MY SHOULDERS ARE RED! :(
Yup that's my CNY. I have been trying to upload to FB but failed. Perhaps the whole world is uploading their CNY pics and fb has become so laggy.
Then met wen hao *ahem* with fungie for dinner. This cousin of mine still treat us to $90++ sizzler and sent us home! *ahem* fungie, *cough* can consider! LOL
Tiger year, gosh 24 years old. it arrives to fast. it just seems like yesterday that i celebrated my 21st birthday.
Anyway, back to work. JIA YOU JIA YOU! Waiting for the next long holiday to arrive...er.... when....?
HAPPY CNY, HUAT AH!
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