My 1st Ang Pao For 2016

We were caught by surprised with the visit of our CRO Moriyama-san after lunch today. He came down from his office on the 20^th Floor and greeted us with a bright smile and handed CNY ang pao to all the ladies who were present.

Since his arrival to Singapore as our CRO perhaps 3 years ago, he has been following the trend of giving ang pao to all the lady staff in the office. We were really surprised by his generous gesture as he is the first boss who does that.

This year, being his last year serving as our CRO, he did not fail to do the same despite his busy schedule. He even took time to walk to each lady’s desk to present the ang pao… THUMPS UP!!!!

Thank you Moriyama-san for your generous ang pao!

CNY School Celebration

Yearly, Faith’s school organizes CNY celebration in school to celebration this occasion and at the same time, teaching them the values of CNY.

Today, students are allowed to dress in their CNY or party clothes and parents were told to prepare some CNY goodies for the party. It was great and I bought a tub of ‘Love Letters’ for them as that is one of the usual goodies we eat during CNY.

Faith was really excited about the party and insisted to wear her Cheong Sam to school for the party. I am happy to know that she can fit into her Cheong Sam which was given to her by my cousin. J

CNY Reunion Dinner With BFFs

We never fail to meet for our yearly CNY Reunion Dinner and no exception this year too. We organized and had our gathering at Bali Thai Suntec City which is near where I am working. J

Everyone arrived on time and we started to give each other gifts like ang pao envelopes, CNY goodies, advance Valentine’s Day gift and I presented to them the Photobook which I made for our Funtastic Trip to Batam.

We started our wonderful reunion dinner with Lo Hei. We simply love Lo Hei not only we are tossing for good health and WEALTH but we love this dish as it’s considered as a yearly dish for CNY. All the dishes followed pretty quickly but we too did not waste anytime but to clear the plates…

It was a very fun and sumptuous dinner though the dishes were not Chinese food. For me, I love the Tom Yum soup as it was sour enough to appetize me to eat more dishes and I love the crystal noodles too.

After our dinner, we went for a walk or should I say for shopping. Yes, nothing will stop us if there is a CNY sales going on in any shops we enter. J Whenever I we meet, we never leave for home without having to bring home bags of goodies. J

CNY Goodies

CNY is not too far away and yearly, I will try to bake something for my friends and relatives as one of their CNY goodies. This year, as I have not time to air fried the crab sticks; I made honey cornflakes for them instead.

It is one of the easiest goodies ever. It took me less than an hour to make about 10 tubs with the help of my mum. Woohoo!!! I guess I can make this every week should any request from my friends… J

CNY Family Reunion Dinner

Exactly one more week will be CNY and today, we had our CNY family reunion dinner at my in-laws place. As Cantonese tradition, we usually prepare steamboat for dinner as everyone can sit around and cook the food together in one pot.

This year, my mother-in-law prepared dishes instead as the family grew quite a bit and we have a baby in the house. To avoid them getting scalded while running around or playing around the dining area, we thought a sit-down dinner is more preferable.

Hubby & I went to collect the Treasure Pot & Yusheng at Yan Court located at Chinatown. While waiting for hubby, I went to get wine and raw fish as the one from Yan Court was vegetarian.

After settling down the kids after their dinner, we prepared dinner for the adults. We started off with the Lo Hei of course and everyone including the kids was tossing the vegetables high up for good luck and good health for the year.

Surprisingly the Vegetarian Yusheng from Yan Court was pretty tasty though wasn’t my favourite. As for the treasure pot, it was delicious and pretty value for money compared to other restaurants. I trust that we will be ordering from them again next year for our reunion dinner. J

Buddies’ CNY Reunion Dinner

It’s a yearly affair that we will organize a CNY Reunion Dinner for our group. This year, with no exception, we had our dinner at Spring Court which is one of our favorite restaurants.

To celebrate this occasion, we pre-ordered the special menu and brought five bottles of wine to drink the night away. Our dishes were customized especially as we did not want to take up the CNY menu from the restaurant.

We were given a private room with karaoke and this is one of the best restaurants that have the best of both worlds – good food and karaoke in private room! What more can we asked for right!! We mentioned that we need to get everyone seated as early as possible so that we can all Lo Hei together.

This time, everyone was very punctual and we started our Lo Hei (my 2^nd by the way) and it was way too fun to toss! As we tossed, we said all the good wishes and most of us wished that our current boss will be sent home soon… not sure if our wishes will come true… hahaahahah

All the dishes came marching out right after our Lo Hei and of course the entertainment also started at the same time. We can’t seem to sit and eat with the karaoke system in the room so, we put up many songs request and we started singing and even dancing! It was so much fun that our newbie Sumiyo was shocked to see the other side of us!!! She was well entertained and was really thrilled to see how wild and funny this group can be out of office!

Of course we were too entertained by Linda & Jessica as they joint hands to tear the suckling apart! Thanks to their effort and we were able to enjoy the meat of the suckling pig without having to pay extra to the restaurant for chopping it for us. Whahahaahahah…

Due to CNY period, the restaurant took quite a long time to serve our dessert and that somehow delayed our time to leave for home but it was all fun and we were totally over the moon! hahaahahaha

God Of Fortune

Wow…What a fantastic moment! We were greeted by the God of Fortune at our office after lunch today!

The sales manager of Crowne Plaza Hotel dropped by at our office to pass us their hotel ang pao envelopes but what surprised us was they brought along the God of Fortune too which made the atmosphere even more happening! Hahaahahaha

Most of my colleagues who came out to the reception was shocked and excited to see this auspicious icon before the CNY…

Mmmh… does this means I will have a wonderful and LUCKY year ahead? Let’s hope so yea… J