Year of the Horse

Happy Lunar New Year everyone! Though it's the 10th day of lunar new year today, better late than never to send a greeting! Apologise for the dearth of regular posts over here, as I am still commuting to and fro from two places: Yishun and Chai Chee. Even when I reach my yishun home during the weekends, more often than not, I am still outside running errands. Hence, I hardly have the time to sit down leisurely to draft up a post. I'll be posting up pics taken during the lunar new year bit by bit as I still do not have much time to edit the sieve through the photos. This year, during the first day of CNY, I went to two temples specifically Shuang Lin Monastery and Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple. The latter temple was packed like crazy! We had to queue up to enter the temple. That is indeed an eye opener for me because I havent been to this popular temple during the first day of lunar new year and I am taken aback by the throngs of crowd. It was also quite dangerous and chaotic because people were holding onto lit joss sticks and I heard from my sister that a lady yelped loudly as someone's joss sticks burnt her hand. After that I visited third sis's house followed by Breadman's house and cousin's house at night. That sums up Day 1. As for Day 2, my family and i went to elder sis's house at boon lay as well as the temple over there. Day 3 began with a trip to the newly opened river safari, which i will share with you in future posts and ended with me visiting Breadman's house again.

Anyway, backtrack a bit. Here are the food we ate during the reunion dinner.

As the yearly tradition goes, we always must have home made steam boat during the eve of chinese new year. This year we had more seafood than the other kinds of ingredients because third sis bought some crabs from a sale. Not sure the actual name of the crabs but I think they resemble alaskan crabs! My fav food item is still the fish. All kinds of fish. Cod fish, salmon, bring it on. I also like the azhar that my mom made. It is this spicy and sourly sweet dish of cucumber with carrots, topped with peanuts. It is a very refreshing appetizer.

 

No pics for day 1 of cny so i shall move on to the second day.

Breadman came visiting my house on day 2 morning, dressed in red as always. He says he will only be in red during chinese new year. Bluff loh. I have seen you in that colour on non new year days. Anyway to cut the long story short, we are back together again. This time way better than the first time around. Guess the 1 year long separation didnt have much impact on us. Nothing has changed much as compared to the past. Except that we are both older with time.

 

My selfie! In my new dress with a sexy back. Too bad my back isnt exactly a feast to the eyes. Haha.

 My very adorable yet irritating dad. Haha. I think we look alike. Dun you think so?

Cousin in her romper and neon yellow theme items. Best to go out at night! Haha.

Sis and cousin posing for a pic. Yanni was our photographer. Aitee looks like a crab with her hands like that!

There there, dun say I didnt credit you. this is my sister Yanni whom I will be staying together with till the day I get married. Haha. We say she looks like a zebra in that outfit. Haha. She got that dress from Nichii.

 

Xy in her Dressabelle dress together with cousin Jess. These two took so many selfies using my camera!

 

Mandatory outfit of the day shot. I am in my dress which costs $25, $29 mango belt, $12 cardigan from Hong Kong.

 

I kinda love this shot because I like how my hair looks like from the back. This is a $12 haircut which took 1 hour as the salon had no one except for me. Thus the hairdresser took eons to cut my hair. I am fine with that because I quite enjoy the feeling of having my tresses cut off. My back is not very nice. Can see some back acne if you close up.

Cousins's OOTD. You have no idea how many shots we took! The behind the scenes shots will definitely make you laugh. Silly poses, trying to pose like a supermodel and all the other random stuff! That's actually the best part of chinese new year. We take photos like nobody's business. Angpaos become secondary since I stopped visiting after I fell sick. I dun really care much about meeting those immature relatives of mine, who have nothing better to say than to criticize and to sneer.

This photo looks incredibly dumb. Haha. Failed attempts at making it look artistic. It is coincidental that we both turned up in outfits with "holes" so I thought it would be cute to capture that. How often do you wear similar outfits without prearranging?

The three of us! Xy, Jess and myself. We were the only ones who took photos non stop during our "supposed" CNY visit. Haha. We didnt even take a pic with the host. OOPS.

 There, what did I say about these two earlier on? This is the valid evidence. I still have plenty of selfies of them which I henceforth think is not appropriate for this blog of a narcissistic nature. Haha.

Shocked expression while eating my magnum pink. FYI, it isnt nice for one bit. I still prefer the good old original magnum. Sometimes, innovations just do not work out.

End off with my fav pic with cousin. I love this pic because of my subtle smile. I rarely smile with my mouth closed because I feel that my straight teeth are my assets. This pic is slightly different cuz it's a subtle smile. Want to smile but dun want to smile like that. Ha.

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR! HUAT AH! GO DRINK AH HUAT WHITE COFFEE! (okay lame : D)