A summary of my 2014!
Time flies. It's 2015 and we are already in March! 9 months till end of 2015. Although it may sound like a long time to Dec but if you think of it, Dec will come and find you faster than you realise that!
So fast that in 3 month's time, someone will be flying to Australia to study and stay there for good. As much as one would like to make every moment count, sometimes that thought of leaving that someone for good just push you away and not think about it.
ANYWAYYYYYYYYYY.....
It's DIM SUM DOLLIES TIME!
I bought an extra ticket in case someone could join me, however the people who shared the same interest as me are unable to make it. It's my fault anyway, for asking them at the last minute. Oh well, it was good having the seat beside me being empty. So that I don't have to deal with people who talks all the time or people who uses their phone. That pissed me off. I mean, respect the performers and their show! Don't anyhow do recording although I know the audience are as excited as I am, to be there watching it live. :)
The part where they encouraged us to bring out our phones. I was and am glad that I was able to make it for the show. It just so spectacular and I was reminded of how long has it been since I last watch a performance like this.
After the performance, we decided to drop by Harry's for a small drink and finger food. Such fun! And thanks to Christabel for recommending the Apple Cider drink during our meet up at Harry's @ MBFC.
So comes the annual 赵 family christmas event. :)
I will try to make it an annual event with games and gifts exchange so that we will meet up more often than just once a year for Chinese New Year.
This year is sightly better because dong dong, Sabrina, Cheryl and Stuart joined us. Sadly xiuwen jie & hubby were unable to come.
I rushed to buy the materials for the games after researching them online. I need to make some improvements on the forfeits for the losing team. Thinking of which, I had an idea for 2015 Christmas Party!! The ideas just came flowing through! OMG! Now I can't wait for Christmas 2015!
I am actually thinking of planning an annual event with the Heng family. I would like to do a Halloween party with the kids - I think it will be real fun.
Dajie collated the pictures for me. It's a pity we didn't get to take a lot of photos.. Maybe I need to bring a photographer next time.
Look at the gift exchange cards I had prepared!
It was fun initially however after a while it gets a tad boring. Maybe because there are too little people to do the exchange, I'm not sure. It was the same few people who kept getting their gifts changed. Anyway, I had some ideas for this year christmas and it sure is more exciting than last year!
We did Pictionary and it was fun! It was cool seeing how the mother and son had the same wavelength as it was always the mother and son who managed to guess each other's drawing correctly! I had managed to take a picture of the last one. See how artistic everyone is.
HUAT HUAT 新年快乐！ Happy Chinese New Year! This year is the year of the Sheep! Too many people doing sheep so I decided to do 發財貓 (seems like it looked better in traditional chinese than in simplified chinese) or what we call Fortune Cat. My girlfriend painstakingly handprinted everything on my nails! It ain't easy but I really love it very much! She purposely drew one opened eye and the other is closed. If I didn't remember wrongly, she said the open eye is to welcome wealth/money and the close eye is to retain them. She spent at least 2 hours to do mine and I was the third in queue. In a way, I'm glad that she does this for close friends only and not for everyone. That makes it all the more special and I'm worried for her back and eyes too. She started around wish to 8pm and ended around 3am or slightly after. I felt so heart pain for her and at the same time I felt very proud of my nails!
This year I did not join my dad's family for reunion dinner. Instead, I invited my non-chinese friends over for reunion dinner. It was fun and we had steamboat together while Zham made siew mai for us to try - which was delicious!!
Leo baked peanut-butter cheese cake for us all! That's very sweet of him and look at it! I thought he bought it. It was delicious!!
Lastly, we did the lou hei for luck, health and prosperity. It was fun! I'm glad that everyone enjoyed themselves. :)
My Chinese New Year 2015 was a very fun event this year. I had enjoyed myself thoroughly. This is the period where I ate a lot for 4 days straight. By the end of the 4th day, I had ate a total of 6 lou hei! I'm not complaining because this is the only period where I ate lou hei and also where I did a lot of visiting at my cousins!
Ang Paos are secondary. What's important is meeting up with my relatives. :)
Brought home a tent given by my boss as she found it while she was cleaning out her storeroom.
Mark was quite careful about going in while Eli just ran in straight and declared it his home. Haha.
That's Mark entering it while staying near the entrance playing with the balls.
Dajie was telling us the conversation she had with Eli the day after he played with the tent.
Eli: Mummy, I want to go to my house.
Dajie: Where is your house?
Eli: In *por por's house.
*Por Por is his grandma which is my mom.
Sometimes it is really interesting to see how the toddler's mind works. The questions they asked and the things they said. That was way before they are introduced to the tainted world outside. They are so full of innocence and no judging of things.
