Happy Valentine's Day!!

Finally i am in office on Valentine's Day. Had been at client's for the past few years. Ah dear gave me a suprise by sending flowers to my office! :) Thanks dear! 12 white roses

Haa and my colleagues insisted that i must take a pic at my desk..so paisei

Didnt really plan anything for the day but as ah dear is off today, we met for dinner.

Another suprise when i met up. He actually got me a gift! :P Sorry ah dear, your gift is still in the WIP (work-in-progress) mode now :P. We went to Minori, a Jap buffet rest at UE Square for dinner. The food is good and law simply loved their Californa Handroll. Guess how many he had?

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Then another 2 more.....and lastly...

1 more! Notice there are 2 handroll in the pic, one is mine. So in total he had 7!! Think its a record man to have 7 California Handroll at one go!!


Here are some other pics:

Lobster with spaghetti and mash potatoes

Raw salmon (my favourite) and swordfish

Makis. There are "hidden" wasabi in the pickles maki, and this is how ah dear looks when he ate one!

Very mint!!

There are really tears coming out of his eyes.

Since Law has not tried Sake before, we decided to order 1 bottle (cold) to try.

It cost us $33 for 1 small bottle! About 4 small cups worth of Sake. The waitress then poured the sake into a glass bottle that has a hole (from the outside) in the middle so that it can hold ice wihout diluting the sake. Cool huh.hehe

We also had 2 cups of Chawamushi each. Simply love their chawamushi, very tasty. Was already bursting when the dessert came.

Not sure what is it. But tasted funny.

My present: 1 very sweet card plus a bottle of Xiang Shi Dou...haha

CNY 3rd day

Went to a Sec school fren, Chowseng's house for visting today. This is my first time to his place. Xuehui, Qingyou and Shenwei went along too. We started playing mahjong at his place. Dunno is it becos i prayed to the God of Fortune on New Year's eve, i was rather lucky at the game. It has been a long long time since i last played mahjong...at least 3~4 yrs ago. I was the big winner yesterday! And had gamed quite a no of times. Think i have never been so lucky in any games before. My winning tiles. Qing Yi Sie plus zhi mo and got flowers, so i hit the max of Wu Tai (5 folds)!! Think is my biggest winning tiles ever :D hee...

And guess what we had for dinner....ya steamboat...AGIAN!!! haaa...

CNY 2nd day

Think my CNY programs for the 1st 2 days are pretty routine. Haha..first day would be gg visiting and 2nd day would be gg for tim sum with my mom's side relative. We went to Harbour City this year.

Yu Sheng is a must

And followed by other tim sum dishes

Due to the number of us, we have to get 2 tables. At my table is my family and aunty Julie's family

Haa..think aunty Julie is camera shy! With her daughter from the left, Francine, Francesa, aunty Julie and Uncle Ron.

My mom and dad

Sis and family

Law, me and my granny

See Trishelle with her cute hat!!!

Just simply LOVE her!!! :D

After the Tim Sum, we started gg visiting on Law's side relative. Their practice is only to go visiting on the 2nd day of the new year. :) just nice a timing for me. haha..

Went to watch CJ 7 in the evening. I quite like the show, but Law said its too disappointing.

CNY first day

Just after 2 hrs sleep, i am up and running...Its a tradition for my family to have fried carrot cake for breakfast on the first day of CNY. Its made by my granny and its the best in the world!!

Yum yum!!!

The first place that we went is to my dad's side relative. For those who doesnt know, i have a few grandma. My real granny (my dad's mom) is the 4th wife of my grandpa. So the first stop is to my elderest grandma's house whereby all my aunties and uncles would gather there for the morning.

This year, the hot topic of the day is of cos no longer asking the kids (or my generation) about work, studies, who got bf/gf or when are you getting married. The center of attraction is of cos Trishelle!! Haha think she really saved us on answering all those qns!

With our star!

This yr there is a team of Lion Dancing Troupe that went house to house. Not sure whats the meaning of it. But i am sure its for some good blessing..

And we only allowed them to stay by the doorway.

See that flash in the mirror, thats from my cam ..haha. We together with Trishelle are standing at the furthest corner of the living room afraid that it would scare Trishelle. But it proof wrong. When the troupe started playing the drums and others, its way too loud and yes, Trishelle was frightened! Can see from her expression. Its quite funny actually haha :P but not in time to capture her expression. My dad quickly covered her ears and brought her into the room.

After that we went over to my mom's side. We had the ever hot selling Shark Fin soup made by my aunt. Hee..my sis didnt get to eat it last yr cos she was pregnant and she had her revenge this yr! She had 2 big bowls of it!

Haa..look how satisfying it is

Lunch is steamboat. Last yr think i didnt cook the food properly and ended up having LS for the next few days..this yr, i am gg slow on my cooking man...There are so many of us that we need to eat by batches.

Look at all those food!

Mike and Candice

Me, BIL and sis

Last yr, we had 2 pregnant women so of cos this yr, there are 2 new additions to our extended family!

Baby Trishelle and baby Estella

Estella with her mom Winnie

These are my 3 favourite red packs that i have received this yr. The first one is a Little Twin Star one with a small bell on top. Next is a red pack with 8 golden mouse all over its and the last one is a gold pack with the chinese character of rat on it.

Lastly would like to wish all a HAPPY NEW YEAR!! May love, health and wealth embrace you through 2008!!!

Reunion dinner

We had our reunion dinner at Rail Mall @ Lets Crab it rest this year. Sis and family joined us too. Dinner like the past is either at 6pm or at 8pm. Thus we went for the 6pm timing. This year we had a new addition to the family. Thats baby Trishelle! Hee..last yr she is still in the womb of my sis :P

We had :

Yu Sheng

Herbal Chicken and Drunkard prawns

Some veges..err.forgot its name

And of cos Chilli Crab with fried man tou

Trishelle with her dad

Trishelle with gong gong and po po

Me and my granny

Met up with Law at abt 11pm+. Our original plan was to go to Chinatown for countdown and also to see Bian(1) Pow(4). But in the end you wont believe where we went and wat we did. Its not something which you would expect me to do....in the end, we went back to his place to welcome the God of Fortune. Its at the temple beside his house.

While waiting in queue to be bless by the god. They are conducting some ceremony inside.

Still in the midst of the ceremony

Law with his bro and mom

We are holding the joss sticks and lotus lamp. The joss sticks are covered in gold shimmers. Very pretty. Its not the normal kind which we use to pray in temple. The lotus lamp is said to guide the god of fortune back to your house and you are suppose to lit it until it has finished buring.

During the ceremony, there is a part whereby the priest would bless the gold coins and throw it to us. If you manage to grab it, its said to bring good luck and wealth. Law managed to grab 3 and i managed to grab 2!! :D So expecting good wealth in the coming yr! Huat ah!! Hehe

After the whole ceremony, we went to Chinatown to meet Bernard and gf for some last min shopping while waiting for Guoguang for yet another temple visitation. While at Chinatown, we came across a shop that sells abacus. Remembering what my aunt said, its good to buy a calculator on the 1st day of the new year and keep it inside ur wallet so that you would have money to count for the rest of the year, i bought one keychain abacus. :P

This time we went to Loyang Da Bo Gong template. By the time everything is done and i have reached my cozy bed, its alr 630 in the morning! Only another 2 hrs sleep and i am suppose to be up and awake to go for my new year visitings...damn tired..but its all worth it! The purpose to stay up all night is to Shou(3) Sui(4). Its say to bless your parent for longevity.

My new phone

Went for Mcdonald breakfast with Law in the morning. Cant remember when was the last time i had hotcakes for breakfast. It sure was a satisfying meal!

After that we proceed to get our hps!! I got a Sony Ericsson W910i (red) and ah dear got a Nokia 6500s (black).

My new toy. I sure need some time to get used to the msging!