CNY!

it's CNY! an annual routine once a year. went BL shopping centre's BL raja restaurant for reunion dinner with my maternal side. everything was ok till this s'pore version Zhu Ge Liang came out and was very very noisy on stage. a few tone-deafed women were singing, and the ZGL suddenly became God of Fortune. den he went to every table to give lucky numbers. food very not very good though. steamboat would be better and tastier. den went chinatown for a walk and the countdown. bought lots of foodstuff and waited for the countdown and the firecrackers. IT WAS SUPER CROWDED THERE! wanted to watch the live performance after our McNuggets meal break at mac, but the crowd outside was beyond control. near-stampede situation. somehow i was swayed to outside Lim Chee Guan, and reunited with family and stood there to watch firecrackers. anyway i did not mind the crowd cos there was many many ang mohs there. from US,UK and aust. hahahaha. no more FWs this time, but there's china chinese men. hmph. i dun mind squeezing with ang mohs lah. hahaha. more friendly with them. anyway the firecrackers were great. my 1st time in my life hearing it 'live'. super loud and it made my momentarily deaf! hahaha! and the fireworks were great too. but was blocked by a tree. went home after that.

1st day of CNY! woke up at 1030 and got my 1st ang pao from uncle. den had vegetarian breakfast b4 gg out at 1pm. as usual, went to my mum's real side that family. my uncle's hse at yishun. one-stop ang pao collecting. very very boring there. veryyyyyyy. not on talking terms with my cousins there u see. not close one. den we left for my paternal grandma's hse after a very delicious lunch at that uncle's hse. traffic jammed very badly till tiong bahru. another one-stop ang pao collecting station. and i realised i really resembles my dad. or rather his side. haha. thin and lanky (heh.) . and im one of the tallest there! im taller than all my uncles. hahaha. very boring also. very very boring... stayed for 5 hrs there. anyway dinner was great too. hokkien lunch, cantonese dinner. hehe. yummy. lotus soup, abalone with vege, prawns, steamed fish, fu yong eggs etc. yummy yummy. rotted in front of tv most of the time. and den came home at 9pm. lidat lor. 1st day gone lidat. going uncle's condo tml and my grandma's hse. more ang pao. whahaha. got 25 ang paos today. =]