CNY - Part 2

For my family, we would celebration Lunar new year by following the traditional Chinese cultural. On the first day, we would gather in the house of the most senior member of the family, greet them and give blessing, exchange of Mandarin Oranges is also a must, and wearing the auspicious colored Red (at least nothing close to black!) is compulsory.

Without fail, every first day of Lunar new year my whole family will visit my Grandma at Jurong East and will have a steamboat lunch there before we move off to the second designation. Normally my family would split into 2 group, my mum and brother would go to the temple first to make offerings and pray for good health and good fortune, the rest of the family members will proceed to Grandma's house.

My dad waiting for us to be ready....

Waiting for Mr. Piggy to pick us up... :)

Me and Brother in the back seat of EG.

My 5" inch high wrap heels... luv

Late night activity.... Gathering at Kenny's place...

Notice something? This year red strip is in trend...!

Man's talk~

Mao Mao little one.... Charming to the max...

Here is the host...

Haha... still managed to capture one... :) Heart for all the effort for preparing food and drinks and space to make it a great gathering!

Their little space of romancing... :)

CNY 2011 - Part 1

CNY preparation....

Every year top of the list when it come to CNY is......SHOPPING...!!!!!!!! (That's the only part i enjoyed most)

These are loots for this year.

Like previous years, i have to work till eve of CNY and got to rush home to do last minute cleaning and tidying, which would always take me till quite late. As a result, our dinner is never early. :(

Reunion dinner is a tradition for every family, but for the past years, my mum would just chop the 拜拜chicken and other offerings for our dinner. Then whoever hungry just take our own bowl and get our own food, never is there a Reunion dinner. Only till last year, she started this steamboat thingy, finally it's a more 像样的团圆饭. As for this year, she improved the steamboat equipment. :)

Abalone, a must have for new year. There are too many types of abalone, the vegetarian style, the mushroom lookalike kind, big ones, tiny ones, dried ones and fresh (usually preserved) ones. Prices of the abalone is also one thing we have to look out during new year, it would be like stock markets.

Ours..... canned ones of course!

My shy brother trying to escape.... haha... too bad, caught in camara.

Ugly tired me....