The 15 Days of CNY

We have a song for the 12 days of Christmas, I wonder why nobody ever wrote a song for the 15 days of CNY, haha. Anyway, CNY tis year was fun, as always, though it’s the holiday season, it’s much tiring than normal days :-p

Well, Let’s start with CNY eve then~ As I’ve mention i din take leave for cny, n i was almost the only chinese working in the block. When work was finally over i got home n started decorating the house, as wat i would do every year.

 

After decorating the house we had our reunion dinner n after dinner continue with all the minor but fussy chores. Whole nite there’s fireworks booming around, and around 1130 the fireworks started to be more rapid. I dun really feel excited over cny anymore, but i still like the fireworks very much ^^

3 things I like about CNY, fireworks, wearing new clothes, and FOOD!! (ang pow doesn’t fit in here coz i usually don’t get much from them)

This is the kolo mee sua I had in Tracy’s house~ I usually don’t go house visiting at chu 1 (means the first day of cny) but tis year I went out at noon n got home around 12am. Other than Tracy’s house, which was the first house I visited, all the others were houses i’ve never been n almost all of them were having open house, full till like wat @@

First stop was Steve’s place, n he showed us his 2 babies~

Then went to Irene’s house n had nice sashimi~

After tat bab’s mother’s house for mee sua (again), very very nice!

obviously bernard loves it!

And Kenny’s house where we spend hours playing his xbox360 with motion detection, very fun~

Finally to bab’s place n played cards using pistachios (first for me, haha)

When i reached home it was near midnight n man i was shocked by all the cars outside my house! perng’s frens was all here playing wii n mahjong, the living room was stuffed, n everyone was so excited over boxing n tennis. I sat down n played a couple rounds of mahjong, no luck though >< I turned in at around 4am while the others continue playing.

No plans on chu 2, so I asked the gals to come over to my house to play wii, baba couldn’t make it so onli nana n ming came

I guess they enjoyed the game ^^

Nite time was a gathering with another gang of gals, coz Ivy was going bek the next day and wont be able to join the house visiting on chu 4, so we met up at Delizze for dinner

Ameline was late so she missed the gathering, she came to my house instead for some drinks n chat.

3rd day of cny, was the usual primary schoolmates day, we gathered at king’s center and the proceed to teacher’s house, there’s juz a few of us this year, a lot of ppl couldn’t make it

then the house visiting goes on, snap tis interesting scene at yen ting’s house

and there’s some other liquor too, they actually look very good as decoration ^^

When they reach my house it was already 6 something. Shuang n Alvin will be coming at around 7, so I stayed home n waited for their arrival. I was kinda worried coz our house is no longer child-proof since none of us can be considered “child” anymore, i could hardly find any toys for the children to play with anymore.

 

Surprisingly sam gotten quite well with my dad, it was nice see the family Kuching, do come again next year ya ^^

Then it was the last day of the cny holiday, and house visiting for the secondary school gang. Mei n Wee couldn’t join us this year, so the group was rather slim. We started at Eve’s house, with her talkative parrot.

he can really say “hello” very well

Then to wee’s house to see her baby, my house and the grace’s house, I left them after tat to join the gals at ming’s house for sin hua pa mee (food comes first :-p)

everything was as planned so far, but after tis something not planned. The gals told me they were going to gym for body pump class, n i din bring any changing clothes at all, baba say she has an extra set she can borrow me, so i followed them to gym, totally unprepared, n it was my first pump class in 2 months! still, it was fun, after class bryan n shirley joined us to nana’s house, n then to my house for wii again~ later dada, cin n nic was also here (n dada say she had body ache the next day coz of wii)

So ends my cny holiday, on monday i went to work as usual, hardly concentrating on work of coz :-p

Tuesday was a little better coz i had free ice~ Igloo has tis open house every year during cny, n tis year i finally manage to eat it (thanks to ming for reminding me!)

They have 4 flavours n 2 variety each to choose from, n who says nothing is free in tis world~ hehehe

Wednesday was chu 7, human day in cny, for those that doesn’t know, everyday in cny is represented by something, and the 7th day is human day, which is suppose to be everyone’s birthday. Every chinese ethnic celebrates it in a different way, for us hakka, we celebrate it with eating lui cha, hakka traditional food

mum’s lui cha is the best ^^

I guess the 7th day is worth celebrating coz it marks tat half the cny is gone? :-p

on Thursday I had a gathering with carol n ai mian, n bernard tagged along too. We went to soulis, havent been there in ages n gosh it’s so different now! it’s connected to T1 n i can imagine spending saturday nite here, must be nice, but as a fine dining restaurant on it’s own, i remembered it to be much better than now. Service is quite slow n the drinks are so-so, but the food’s not bad.

After dinner bernard left us gals to hang around on our own, carol mention about singing so i brought them to platform for some drinks and nite life in kch.

We heard some pretty good singing, kch really got lots of good singers!

Then it’s already friday! ysin asked me for lunch, n asked anne along, we went to brighton square for the pan mee.

love tis~

the bu bu cha cha not bad!

n after gym went to garden hill with the gals for dinner. It’s my first time there, surprisingly it’s a very nice place, n the food’s very good too!

Soon it was the 10th day of cny, n also a saturday, n jerry’s birthday celebration at platform. Was a little surprised to see so many ppl there tat nite, got to know some new frens too ^^

Happy birthday jerry! din really manage to make my “revenge” coz he was already drunk even b4 i started to drink with him. the nite din really ended very well though, coz after platform we went to paragon for 2nd round, n almost witness a huge fight, din really know wat happened coz we ran off as soon as ppl started gather around the fighting crowd.

Monday was the 12th day of cny, and also valentine’s day. Used to did many things on valentine’s day, like selling flowers, going to clubs, having nice dinners, etc (except celebrating it with a bf :-p)  tis year i din wanna make it too complicated, so juz gonna go gym n spend it with the gals, though, ended up with some guys as well.

And we saw some fireworks juz in front of us!

watching fireworks beside the river was actually quite romantic ^^ (would have been better if i had a bf beside me thou :-p)

the apple juice is huge! but it was oxidized n tasted pretty bad ><

satay

nasi pattaya

After dinner we juz felt something’s missing (cravings for desert!) so we went to hilton, which was juz opposite to hunt for desert

There was quite a lot of people, but i don’t think that should be an excuse for bad service… a lot of things were not available, the waitress’s attitude was bad, could it be because we don’t look rich? or izzit coz the waitresses was bad mood coz they need to work on valentine’s day? well, i definitely do not think tis is wat i’d expect from a world class hotel

usually they give you extra milk for the hot chocolate, n the milk was not hot enough tat day! the chocolate barely melt >< still love them though ^^

The next day was a public holiday, n it’s movie day~ after gym we went song king hai for ang tao peng, then to spring to get our tickets, wanted to watch shaolin but no more tics available, so we watched what women want instead, still andy lau :-p

i’m so gonna watch tis

Before movie we need to eat of coz, so it’s sushi king time~

still in time to eat the ‘yu shang’

everyone need to say some good words while mixing the ‘yu shang’

nana’s Japanese curry, was quite good

The movie was not bad, i just adore gong li’s character in the movie! After the movie we went to novus cafe at jln song for supper

tis is nice

love their coco bailey!

Soon it was the last day of cny, and also chinese valentine’s day, got a surprise at the office, not for me but for my good friend grace

got to say good job to the bf, hehe

The last day of cny, also known as chap goh mei (the 15th nite in hokkien), and also known as yuan xiao jie in mandrin, ‘jie’ is similar to ‘day’ in english, and ‘yuan xiao’ is actually dumpling, so the 15th day of cny is actually the day to eat dumpling, but i think ppl in malaysia don’t really do that, however, we did tis year ^^

And so ends cny 2011, and begins the year of the rabbit, oh, n i forgot to mention that another thing i love about cny, is all the gatherings and meeting ppl you’d probably only get to meet during cny, and visiting ppl’s house tat u’d probably won’t do in usual days. Love the house decoration as well coz the houses juz look so different and everyone’s in a celebrating mood. In other words, even though i’m not a child anymore, and I don’t really prepare for cny like i used to do, u know i love cny ^^