Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Chinese New Year 2008

This year's Lunar New Year was a little different from the previous years cuz we stayed at Grandpa's place til about evening before we decided to get our bums off for our next destination.

So everything was pushed back and the visiting from house to house ended at late night!
Even continued on 初三 when maternal side visitings usually end on first day.
Nevertheless, it was still fun :)

Day One: 初一

At grandpa's place!


Adorable angels =)


I really like this hokkien speaking nephew here!

I love hearing him speak to his mommy in hokkien with his baby voice,
TOO CUTE TO RESIST!

Sometimes I miss the good old days where all of my cousins would gather every weekends playing 'block-catching', 'blind mice', 'lift-catching', 'spiderman' etc..
So many of our self invented games, it's impossible to list all down!

Everything seemed so much fun when I was younger,
because just a 25cents popsicle would make me go gaga after all the sweaty Catching games.
So easily satisfied with life eh?
Being a kid is always better!

Now that we've all grown up, big gatherings only happen on CNY and on Grandpa's birthday.
The distance inevitably grew so huge, no one could see it anymore.

But anywayyyyy, the family is getting BIGGER! as you can see why. =)
Me with Ling!

More babies = YAYNESS! =D

My p5 cousin!
Kids really grow at the speed of light!
To think I used to carry her around, now she's grown so tall and big already! *gasps!*=)


AND HER YOUNGER BRO IS DAMN HANDSOME!

帅到爆!!超"吊"的!!!
Totally have Jay's "diao" look if you get what I mean!





Freaking cute but 帅 at the same time haha!


The abalone 鱼生! YUMS.




Love this cutie to bits!


Didn't gamble on 初一, saved it all for 初三 cuz we still had some more visitings to go. So that's about it for the first day, just visiting most of my relatives' places and stuffed myself silly with all the new year goodies =)


Day two: 初二



As you can see....

My paternal side cousins do not spell F-U-N and all of us are not close with each other.
That's why.

I was literally bored to tears almost every New Year spent there.
Sis will be sleeping and bro will go off early to meet his friends. Couldn't meet dy cuz he's busy over at his grandpa's place!
Luckily I had DS as my companion...
So so so so damn bored that I played 4 hours straight of DS until the batt was off
Enough said.

When it was finally night time we headed to Marina for dinner.
Cheeky dad with happy mom =)

And now I know Thai Express sucks.



The oh-so-typical Singaporeans

Don't be mistaken, my parents are not one of them!
Is there really a need to do that? I don't understand.
They're trying to collect the gold paper the huge God of Fortune gave out every 30 minute or so

With mommy dearest =)


Day Three: 初三

YAYNESS because it's off to the maternal side again!
DS was not an essential companion of that day =)

Love this dress I bought,
you'll be seeing me in this very often. =D

I hate the braces! Oh well. Another 6 more months. =(

The girls just gathered round and talked about everything and anything.
Something we don't have time for everyday, so it's an enjoyment really.

Gambled like siao at Ling's place (and i also lost like siao) with all the screams
Everyone was purely enjoying themselves, including me of course!
All my uncles and aunties screaming with us as well!
One word; FUN. Woohoo! =D

Jayden and Jorin at Ling's place


Ling's baby Jayden is so cuteee! He kept shouting "yay yay yay!" when he saw us at the door, awwwwww~


Playing with the bubble gun in the toilet

They were so excited when they saw the bubbles, with Jayden constantly going "bubble bubble bubble!!!" and proceeded to burst them haha.

I was secretly amazed by the bubble gun as well, LIKE SO FUN MAN!

Had a belated Birthday celebration at Lawry's with my beloved lover on new year too!




Their famous Spinning Bowl Salad

It tasted really nice, in a way or another.

The herb steak we had

Not nice leh. =(
I had another steak the other time I went and it wasn't good either.
I still prefer Michael Angelo's!

Lobster tail was quite nice though =)


Dy asked if they had any cakes on the menu cuz it was my birthday
and they were nice enough to give me this strawberry cake!
It was on the house and we still had a 30% discount off the total bill. Cool.

The cake is really delicious by the way :)



So that's all for my CNY 2008!

GOODNIGHT WORLD!


P.S I hope the 01s and 04s can meet up soon! Time for some catching up eh?