Where shud i begin then? Maybe i shud wish everyone Happy Chinese New Year 1st!! haha.. coz i havent had any post related to CNY yet. This year is the year of Rabbit.! Hop hop hop & may we all find happiness along the way throughout the whole year! Hrmm..i guess i'll share about my activities from the day b4 CNY up to prolly day 4? Coz the best CNY mood is usually in the 1st few days of CNY period..then it starts to cool off by day 4 or 5 isnt it?
The day b4:-
Mum cooked some delicious food for Tuan Yuan Fan.. Not the entire families are involved. U wanna know why? That's becoz ONLY my family had Tuan Yuan Fan with my grandma (my dad's mum) who lives with us. Just so that it doesnt spoil my mood to blog 2day, i'll leave it to another day to write more about the sad thing bout Tuan Yuan Fan this year. Anyhow, we still enjoyed our time together dining around a round old table.
Day 1-
Usually our CNY doesnt really get started at this very 1st day..haha. So, yes we all still wear our brand new clothes & i wore pink shirt on the 1st day..lols. Hey, come on! It's not gay ok! It depends on the ppl who wears it. Many guys wear pink these days & i think i looked gud on it. Will show u the pic on facebook pretty soon. On this very 1st day, we just went to a nearby Chinese temple to pray. We thought going a lil bit late in the afternoon will be better as prolly there'll b less ppl but we were wrong =,= Still there were so many ppl..haha. At night, we went to my maternal grandma's (my mum's mum) house.. Received some angpows from my grandma & my aunts there. Had some CNY cookies & watched my uncles & cousins playing firecrackers. It was freaking LOUD! and dangerous!
Day 2-
At home the whole day. Anticipating ppl 2 come which was the reason why we didnt go anywhere. My dad's 2nd sister came early in the afternoon. They are from KL. Later in the day, my dad's bro & some other relatives came. The house was really really packed! There's hardly any space left to walk around..haha. So yea, everyone talks & talks & talks. The amount of CNY cookies were decreasing at a very fast rate..lollss..but dat's gud news! Coz every year, we bought so much cookies & ended up not finishing it after CNY..
Day 3-
This day was prolly the busiest day! In the morning, we were at old house (my kampung house) as we were waiting for my dad's 1st & 3rd sister to come. They arrived in the afternoon & yes again we talked but different stories & topics of coz compared to day 2. They left later in the afternoon. Oh yea, and mum was xtremely busy preparing food since morning for our open house later at night. I did help my mum to cook but she's the one who puts all the ingredients la.haha..Her hand is a bit painful when she starts using some force..as a son, the best thing to do is to lend her a hand to cook! She cooked some fried noodles, fried bihun as well as two types of soup for the open house at night- errr normal soup & tomyam soup..haha. Yup, then we brought all the food to our 2nd house & continued to prepare for the steamboat. We unpacked all the seafood stuffs from the freezer, washed all the veges & heat up the soup. Shortly after, my relatives (this time my mum's side) arrived but they arrived pretty late actually. It was already about 9pm when they arrived. We enjoyed the steamboat & loads of CNY cookies. This time it's not the cookies but the drinks that are diminishing at extremely fast rate i must say! Especially the Shandy drink!! Tak sempat wanna top up the fridge with new ones but luckily we had ice cubes prepared in advance..haha.
Day 4-
It's about FOOD again..hehe. My uncle decided to treat our family & other relatives to a lunch at duno wat place. It was my 1st time there & the place is so secluded.haha. Never knew a restaurant can exist in such a place. Luckily we arrived early as they were more ppl at the restaurant about an hour or 2 later. We had 9 dishes on the table. Some food is very nice while some is just ok. Overall, it's still not bad..haha. It costs about RM1060.50 in total for 5 tables. Not sure if dat's expensive or considered cheap. After the lunch, it was photograph session! So many generations that i can see there from old to young! So, we all took our turns to take pics. About 39 ppl in total if i'm not mistaken..haha. That's it for the 1st half of the day. Moving on to the 2nd half of the day! At night my mum was invited to her ex-schoolmate's open house in Tambun Indah. It's a very nice place..a place where u can see many beautiful bungalows & dat means rich ppl area..haha. My mum was accompanied by me & my sis last yr but this yr, our whole family attended the open house. Not as many ppl as last yr though. That's becoz many ppl did not turn up due to vacations & other events. It was a buffet style dinner..eat as much and as many rounds as u want..lolls..i went 2 rounds onli ok!
Actually i can still talk about day 5 but it seems that this post is never ending..so, i decided to take a break here..haha..Hungry edi..time for brekky!