Y Dong dong dong dong qiang~
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Happy Chinese New Year!
Pull your ears.
May everyone be prettier/handsome-r, richer in terms of $ and love, healthier (or remain as healthy) & happier and at peace always! ♥
How did you spend your Lunar New Year?
Mine was quite of the norm. :)
On the Eve - 13th Feb
After having our Reunion dinner at home, my family and I went to absorb some of the atmosphere over at Chinatown. It was quite the same, and the crowd wasn't as overwhelming as the previous years. We walked around the CNY bazaar, bought some goodies and made our way back to the car.
On the way back, this narrow alley outside a Bak Kwa stall (which was closed and lights were off so it's pretty dark) was really really jammed up with people going both directions. So we went through it in a single file manner - my mom in front of me, and both my dad and brother behind me. I was using my mom to cover my front and at the same time protect her, my dad was supposed to be behind protecting us, but he got pushed to the back shortly. Then, some bloody asshole pinched my butt. I stunned, but was too late to react and tried to walk out of the crowd. But who knows, after awhile, a second asshole pinched my butt again! This time I reacted, turned behind and "OEI" loudly, loud enough for all to hear. It was too dark, and I couldn't tell who was that asshole. My father heard, and knew instantly what happened, so he grabbed the bag of the most suspicious guy (a bangala) from the side of people going the opposite direction and started shouting at him in Malay. But this bangala kept denying, and said he didn't do it. Idiots! Forget it, I just hope the real culprit's hands will ROT! Grrr.
Shan't let this kinda guy ruin our CNY. After Chinatown, my family joined the rest of my relatives at Joo Chiat Temple for some midnight praying. Once the clock struck 12, we wished one another, hung around before leaving for home at 1ish. :)
CNY Day 1 - 14th Feb
Just like every year, we woke up early and went for some morning praying nearby, before going to my Ah Gong's place which is just 2 blocks away from mine.
Long time never take a photo with my beloved Gonggong. ♥
The hero who babysits me even before I started walking and saved me from my used-to-be violent brother. HAHA. o.ov
After Gonggong's house, we went next door to my 大伯's house, where we sat around, mingled, caught up - you know the usual stuffs. :) We left for my 姨妈's home at Woodlands at about noon time. That was where we stayed throughout the night, eating and gambling. Hahaha. :)
Playing my Family Game - 牛. Won quite a fair bit on the first day. :)
At night, my whole family wanted to head out for some activities. Partyworld - no one answered the phone for reservation. Watch Movie - tickets sold out. Kbox/Top One - too expensive. TCSS - closed. River Ang Pau/Sentosa - some of them not interested. Almost settled for Thai Disco or Boat Quay, but in the end, we went to none, as some still preferred playing mahjong. :(
CNY Day 2 - 15th Feb
All of us were supposed to reach Uncle Raymond's house at Punggol before 11am that day. It's because we planned to take a family portrait. The same place we took our last photos with my late Popo. :( Come to think of it, the photo my family took with my late popo was the ONLY one we took, and my ex-boyfriend was in it too. :/
Anyhows, we took a NEW family portrait today! With Uncle Raymond's $1000 over DSLR and many other digital cameras, we snapped some really beautiful portraits. Awesomeness! :D 7 faces missing tho - Big Uncle, Stanley & fiancee and Derrick & Family.
Take One
Take Two
Best Final Take
Jolene & Me ♥
We're of the same Generation ;)
Here's the Before & After. Wahahaha. :P
And so we were at Uncle Raymond's eating and gambling till late evening. Jolene, Zhengjie & their dad plus my family went to River Ang Pau at Marina together. Seems like this year's river ang pau was much better than the previous year, 'cause there's the fun fair! Haha!
Zhengjie and I tried out this Top Gun, which goes up and flipped us upside down, rotating 360 degrees. It was very thrilling! Both of us enjoyed it very very much, but I think our dads' heart almost dropped when we were up there. Hahaha. Me loves thriling rides. :x
Walked around, enjoyed the light-ups, had supper at Mac before we called it a day at 1ish. :)
CNY Day 3 - 16th Feb
Slept in to our fill, before waking up for 3rd rounds of visiting. Were at Bishan in the morning, before heading over to Uncle Alex's at Woodlands in the afternoon. Ate and gambled for a short while before leaving to meet Li'e, Yun and Zhiling to visit our Conrad Security Uncle Kok Hwa's place at AMK. It's our 4th year there! Hahaha. Played Blackjack, and I lost about $10. :(
Uncle Kok Hwa slimmed down manymany!
Look at his Conrad Bears collection! :o
I only had 1 Giant one and about 4 small ones, which I threw all away 4 years ago. :x
O yea, we played a short while of Mahjong too! Giving Zhiling some Mahjong lessons, you see. :x
So many other Conrad staffs dropped by too. We felt its more like Hari Raye than CNY, because most of them were Malays. There's Nigerian too! Vietnamese as well. Hahaha. International gathering. :o And so the 4 of us left at 8ish. Passed by AMK Hub, and snapped some photos like the previous years too. ;)
We were all sticky and sweaty when we snapped these. Hahaha, weather's damn hot lah! :P
Ta-dah. There goes our CNY break. I'm so dreading work tomorrow. Boooooooooo. I can't wait for the coming weekend though! My house party and cycling with my bestfriends! Please tell me the weather's gonna be goooooooood. ♥
Finally,
May our money keep rolling in & in & in & in,
may help ascend upon us & pesky people out of the way,
may we all HUAT AH! :D
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