Thursday, 25 February 2016

Other CNY happenings


CNY D6: Dinner at our neighbourhood

The sisters

CNY D7: breakfast with best friends at Swimming Club

CNY D7: Ren Ri and valentine's day dinner at 3rd Gu Ma's house
with the delicious vanilla strawberries airflown from Japan

CNY D12: steamboat dinner with best friends

CNY D13: ready for visiting

They don't need to wait for one year to meet up again!

Elderly and the IT gadgets

The young and their IT gadgets

It is nice looking through old photos

CNY D14: Brian's best friend Nathaniel's bday party

Enjoying himself

Disco for kids!



Happy Birthday to nathaniel
The best friends and the star war theme
Finally a theme away from princess and castles!

Costumes for the star war party!
This marks the end of our CNY!
Happy CNY to everyone!
Nice photo of Brandon's classmates, photo taken by teacher in their class
have a great and happy year ahead!

Monday, 15 February 2016

CNY D2 2016

All ready for our busy CNY D2

Happy CNY to all!
Boys getting vain and was busy with matching their belts etc.

making lucky starts
On a side note.. love their shirts from melbourne

as usual, nice soup and Lou hei at 3rd Kao Gong's house

Nice plants in Kao gong's house

A photo with their favourite kao gong!
Love this pic with all the smiling children

Lunch at First kao gong's house
Active ageing indeed.. look at all the food prepared by them!

New toy for this year
Amazed by how they manage to queue up for these things every year!!

Dinner at Gu Por's house

With cousin Youting whom they only meet once a year but bond like best of friends

The lou hei that we missed

And the family pic :)

Wednesday, 10 February 2016

CNY 2016 D1

Do some sit ups first before starting the new year feasts

automatically kneel down to pai nian with oranges in the morning

our lou hei

Lou hei and wishing for a great year ahead!

Gong Xi Fa Cai
Wonderful colours to start the year with!

Our little happy family.. loving the colours!

without buying much.. still ended with a lot of CNY goodies..
Thanks to all for the gifts!!

Visiting Yeye and Mama

Steamboat dinner at Lao Yi's house

With their favourite Yiyi

The cousins with Lao Yi

The cousins!

bonding with cousin of same age

Beautiful sight
Reminds me of my childhood days

CNY Eve

Looking at the good mushrooms every made, i decided i have to experiment with some too
put in the slow cooker overnight and turned out that the sauce dried up
Now that i have learnt, i think i can do better next time!


Thanks to Paula for the yummy food. this is our lunch on CNY eve
Reunion dinner!

Enjoying our dinner.. yummy soup base (superior double boiled)
I am going to get more next year!!

thankful for this beautiful family of mine

Cheers to a good year ahead!!!



Welcoming the monkey year with some monkey business!

Teaching them the tradition and receiving the Ya Shui ang bao

Giving out the ya shui qian
More to welcome the monkey!

going to sleep with their ya shui qian under their pillows
They wanted to stay up so we could have a long life.. so nice to see traditions being passed on to the younger ones

nian nian you yu