Chinese New Year 2008

CNY view at Jonker Street

Previously, before CNY, I was expecting none-the-less CNY without any fireworks. BUT, "they" surprise me, because before the countdown, our Chinese so called "neighbours" already completed their enlightment of fireworks in the sky above so high. Here are the photos captured by my Cybershot...not so nice with camera phones, planning to buy a DSLR Sony A200, but this is still far from my ideal plan. Put it a side first, until I have enough money, then I'll consider the "proposal" again.

Fireworks

Chinese New Year brings a lot of joy for me this year because my birthday was just days before the CNY, some relatives are so generous, they gave me gifts that consists of ang pau RM50 and some shirt for present. Really appreciate that they have the heart to remember my birthday. Even if they don't give me present, I'm happy enough to receive any kind of wish for my birthday. Thanks a lot uncle, auntie, cousins and relatives.

On the other hand, my first day was sitting and waiting for relatives to come over and have our own reunion dinner, although it's called reunion dinner, well, ours is more towards modern lifestyle ones, each family(how do you categorize a family as? from my father's generation of course) Each family will bring some food to our home and share it to other family or, just take some lauk pauk to share around. Yummy as always , I'll get to eat not only my mom's food, my aunt's and my neighbour's rendang. Del!cious. The first day is obviously the merriest day among the other chinese new years' "Haribulan".

The second day of CnY, we visited my mom's side of the relatives. They welcome us with joy and happiness, well, we get to drink Carlsberg beer , and also a special Red Wine. 13% alcohol, blue colored botol and guess what? it's filled inside a Red Label's bottle. Well, although that day is quite exhaustive, I enjoy collecting ang pau for the rest of the day.

The third day of CNY, my friends came by to visit my house. Then we sent back Tcboy because he was sick, we couldn't figure out what disease or illness he got, hope he's allright now. Hmm, then we went to Bee Hui & Bee Wen's house, bungalow...yes. so big, so nice, I was quite attracted by the kuih muih that their mom made. I gambled there, well, no win no lose, but Bee Hui's bf lost around RM200 for being the "zhuang". Hmm, 愿赌服输... in the end, Yong Liang is the big winner, with RM28 collected in his wallet. With the smallest bet, he got the largest amount of money gathered around the table. He won the "pts" gamble, who has the biggest single digit number sum up using three cards wins.

Yee Sang

then I continued to my family's dinner again? no...this time, it's to celebrate me and my uncle's belated birthday, his is on 2nd February, mine is on 5th February. Well we enjoyed the RM258 dinner at Valley there. The first dish is lou sang, the others are tofu with taucu, pork ribs, lemon chickens, vegetables(dont' know what name la...I don't like veges, so sorry), then siakap fish ...hoho...I've forgotten :P ...

Till then, so far, I've collected the amound of ang pau that I'm satisfied, but I've heard a lot of Family Tree's stories, I'll tell them to you guys later. Stay tuned. CNY brings joy, happiness, reunion of family together. That's all for now. Till then , gong xi fa cai and have a prosperous chinese new year altogether!