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CNY Eve Reunion Dinner and the rest of the CNY

I should really shut up about CNY already before someone aims a rotten mandarin orange at me. This is going to be the last CNY related post, i promise :P.

To begin, here’s the youngest sister camwhoring with the oranges.

It feels so good to have privacy and a spacious house to celebrate the eve of CNY. This year we gathered at my sister’s place at Bukit Gasing instead of at home. I just love her place – spacious, cool and peaceful. Ah… not a bad start to the new year!

Oh, that’s me in my brand new pink Mickey T-shirt. LOL.

As usual we had yee sang as appetizer.

How come people always link CNY with money, money and more money? Everyone at the table were yelling “Huat ah!”, “Win lottery ah!”, “Get promotion and big bonus ah!” and the likes. Haha!

Next year i’m going to wish for world peace instead. Yeah right… ok, right after i strike lottery i’ll wish for world peace.

HK made his shop’s signature braised duck and it was the most delicious duck ever. It’s too bad about the incident with his customer. He ended up dividing the whole duck into 2 so our families (his and mine) could share. -_-”

The rest of the food was great! But i ended up over-stuffed and had nightmares of giant prawns chasing me that night.

The rest of the CNY was boring as usual but not so bad because only a few relative came to pay visit. The amount of angpau money i received is so pathetic; i am ashamed to even blog about it.

The food i had during the few days of festivity could actually amount to food i normally take in 6 months. Serious.

The CNY movies on screen were the same old slapstick Hongkie comedies. I didn’t watch any btw coz i really cannot stand Hongkie comedies. Yawn…

Now i’m back to my normal diet (thanks god!) and normal routine (sien!).

So that’s it la. CNY in KL is nothing special. So boring can die.

Pre-CNY Reunion

This year we had our reunion gathering at Restoran Lucky @ Sea Park, PJ. Actually it was a pre-CNY reunion because, well everyone is so busy… basically Ai Leng had to go back to Singapore and the boyfriend had to work on the weekend or something. Like so big business like that lar, ceh!

Here’s our customary pose LOL. We take this every CNY. I cringe at the thought of comparing all our CNY photos and seeing how we had aged through the years. Gawd…

Love this photo of the boyfriend with Briann. He looks like Sinyu from Doraemon.

See the resemblance?!

So we had a good laugh and exchanged juicy gossips about ex-classmates and ex-college mates. Also we lamented about being asked by relatives and friends about when we would get hitched haha.

The food was not bad and i had my first yee sang with these bunch of crazies.

Cheers to another good year ahead!

Happy Chinese New Year! 2 2 2 2!

This year’s CNY reunion dinner wasn’t that bad after all :)

Ahhh to top that, the show on tele was broadcasting about Chinese Zodiacs and their luck this year. Those born in the year of Dog is going to have an almost perfect year! Does that means i have better chance of hitting the jackpot???? I do hope so because this year i am buying more lottery numbers than usual LOL!

Happy Rabbit Year dear people. Wish you all a prosperous and healthy year ahead!

Huat ah!

How come all also food???

I collected all the CNY 2010 photos already from the ahem, various sources.

I was looking through all the photos we took during CNY and there were really so, so many but nearly all of them are photos of the food instead of us. So disappointing… wtf right? -_-”

So here are the photos according to dates.

CNY eve 13/02/2010 – reunion dinner

Reunion dinner @ Bukit Tinggi with sister’s bf

I’m pouring sweet sauce into the yee sang

Food

Chor yat 14/02/2010 – 1st day of CNY

With sis at Shui Yuan Vegeterian Restaurant. I was pinching a mosquito bite LOL

Food – vegetarian for chor yat

Chor yee 15/02/2010 – 2nd day of CNY

Dinner at sister’s bf place :)

All set to dine

Food again :P

Chor chat 20/02/2010 – 7th day of CNY

Food yet again haha

Went back happy and gained a few pounds :S

Chor pat 21/02/2010 – 8th day of CNY

Korean meal at Koryo Won with the parents

bulgogi stew
and more food!!!

I’m gaining more pounds looking at this post!

About CNY

Phew! CNY is almost over but i’m still in a holiday mood. I guess most of us are LOL. It’s really hard to press the power button to my laptop, it seems so long since i typed on the keyboard!

Yesterday was the big day for the Hokkien clan so we took the opportunity to catch Valentine’s Day at Cineleisure. So clever of the boyfriend *Clever boy!*.

The cineplex was quite empty and we got good seats too. Valentine’s Day was surprisingly rather good and enjoyable given that i rarely watch cheesy romantic comedies. Thank god this wasn’t cheesy at all and i laughed throughout the whole movie. Definitely recommended.

As for the CNY this year, i would say that it is one of the enjoyable ones… well it was better than last year anyways. Yes, definitely.

Everyone was was in a super good mood because mom was getting well and we got over the cancer scare. But i suspect mostly it was because we successfully avoided some really nosy good-for-nothing relatives for most days.

What is it with relatives that back stabs you whenever they get the opportunity but comes in throngs to your house during CNY smiling like idiots?? Those relatives, i can live without.

And, and i’ve been only asked once “When are you getting married??” this year which is like a whole new record. I’m really happy *wakakakaka! I guess everyone got tired of asking already :P.

I was telling the boyfriend of how CNY is actually making us poorer and it’s a really sad occasion. Really it is.

I’m not being a grouch but first you become broke from buying all the new clothes (shirts, pants skirt, bag, panties, bra….etc) then you become even more broke by giving part of your hard earned bonus to your parents and siblings and grandparents then you gain a few pounds from all the Shandy and beer and cookies so you become so fat and depress. Don’t even kid yourself that you will get lots of angpows because it won’t even cover your expenses.

CNY is really for kids and old people. They get the most of it don’t they? Hmmm….

Ok, i’m going to stop being a grouch now.

Well, this year we took super lots of photos thanks to my second elder sis whose like totally a camwhore queen. But i won’t post it today because there are some missing and i have to wait for eternity for her to send them over.

This is taken during the reunion dinner at Remember 126 restaurant at Bukit Tinggi (ignore the cheesy name pls *chucks*).

Here is a video we took during the yee sang tossing.

We were tossing the yee sang and i dropped my chopsticks in the sang. I’m such a klutz! :P.

Happy CNY peeps!

This most probably will… no scratch that. I mean this definitely will be the last post before Chinese New Year.

The year of the Tiger has proved to be a challenging one. We’ve just crossed the line from the Ox to the Tiger, yet i’ve been in a state of frenzy already.

I’ve been so effing busy running around being a full time nurse to my mom (it’s a long long story which i will get to that eventually next time) that i have a new respect for housewives everywhere. I constantly murmur FML every few minutes in a day. I don’t even have time to read the newspaper let alone blogging. How the f*ck does these women do it??! (Excuse the language please).

For all the people out there, for Mother’s Day this year all you need to do is to give your mom a day off from the cooking and cleaning and whatever else mothers do. Send her to a spa… or chauffeur her to a hotel for a stay. I tell you that’s the best gift you can give her coz being a full time housewife can drive you crazy. God knows that’s what i want from my future kids… erm in the future.

As for the roaring new year, i wish everyone a very prosperous and peaceful one. I’ll have to wait and see what else the big cat will bring me. Hopefully i’ll survive unscratched haha.

Well Happy Chinese New Year people! Gong Xi Fatt Cai and most of all good health!

And It Was Chinese New Year

CNY is soon over. Let me see… 1 2 3 4…yep 4 more days to go before the firecrackers dies down. What the hell happened to the firecracker-ban this year? I mean like, the pasar malam in Kepong was like a crackers-haven. Even the guy selling pirated games converted his stall selling firecrackers ler. I haven’t had a good night sleep since. Wtf.

This year CNY wasn’t too bad despite those blardy neighbors kids throwing firecrackers and scaring the hell out of my dogs, coz most relatives are married and… ahem… naturally they neglected to come for house visit this year. Oh well, the less the better. Less relative, less drama right? *wakakaka!

Surprisingly though, this year i raked in more angpow money than before thanks to Mr.Bf’s mom and grandma. Not that i was so keen on getting angpow lar. Relatives kept pestering asking me when it’s going to be my turn. Wtf. It’s none of your business if i die a sorry spinster buried with my farm of cats or dogs for that matter, ok?! Get off my case already! Hmmppff!

My angpow collection

Wtf. I was typing this post and suddenly i received a sms from Mr. Bf that made me go wtf. What do you make of this “Wuwuwuwu b saw a big anne hathaway poster hahahaha!”? Wtf right? Dear, Anne Hathaway is mine ok?

Ok, back to my story. How was your CNY? Mine was alright coz i spent most of the time stuffing my face with food… like every other Chinese people during CNY -_-”. First it was the reunion dinner which wasn’t so grand since all the boyfriends were back at their respective hometown. It was simple.

Sea cucumber from Sai Gong

Then it was all the minced pork or bak kua and kuih kapit and shandy and oranges and god knows everything that will make you fat! Mom was too lazy too cook and we spent most of the time eating out or chomping on snacks.

In the end we got too bored of Chinese food that we sped to 1 Utama for some sushi! Like wtf right?

Sushi zanmai lor

Actually this year i had 2 separate “lou sang”. One with the family and another with friends. The later was at SS2 Ang Kee restaurant. I regret not asking the boss for a ladder. The higher you toss it the better wat. No meh? Who came up with the idea of lou sang anyway? Must be a business man or a restaurant owner… what a rip off…

Yee and and Ang Kee restaurant