Our Happy Baby

Though after a few hours of visitation at hubby’s cousin’s place today, baby Emma was feeling tired and cranky but after her milk and bath, she was all energized again!

She was so happy to be home and be at her comfort zone, she was walking around, playing with her toys and even posed for photo when I got near to her with my phone. J

She is a REAL ADDED JOY to our family and never fails to bring smiles on our faces. J

CNY Day 2

I simply love the 2^nd Day of CNY as we only need to visit one place yearly. I remembered when I was younger; we will visit my grandma on the 2^nd day of CNY as this day is made for my mum’s side of the family.

I was even happier when I heard that the visitation will be held at hubby’s cousin’s house which is just next block to where we stay. J I totally had enough time to relax, lesser stuff to carry and only need to walk over. J

Faith was happy to see her cousins and started playing with them in the room while baby Emma was shy and was clinging onto me most of the time until her Yeye came to my rescue. J After that, she was happily playing with some toys in one of the room by herself while hubby & I took our lunch. It was pretty much a family gathering and each year, we see little kids grew so much.

As it was a catered luncheon, the package includes the Yu Sheng too, not one but 9 sets! We gathered everyone at the balcony for the Lo Hei session for the Pioneers and then followed by the young generation and the final one was for the YOUNGER Generation…. Hahaahahahaha

After the Lo Hei with the family, I brought baby Emma home as she was feeling sleepy and cranky while our little lady Faith stayed to play with her cousins. J

Happy New Year!

Today, being the first day of CNY, it is a tradition to greet our parents first thing in the morning and received ang paos. J I woke up slightly late today as I tried to stay up last night as Chinese believed that the later you goes to bed on the New Year’s Eve for the longevity of your parents.

Yearly, we will visit my cousin’s place for lunch and this would be the second time that my elder cousin BG prepared the dishes all by her while my mum chipped in the vegetarian and the mango pudding prepared be me. J

After a year of practice and learning, her culinary skills improved tremendously indeed and she even came up with some interesting yet very CNY dish like the winter melon stuffed with treasures… J Thumps Up!

After a sumptuous luncheon, we walked over to our elder aunt’s place that lived just a street away from my cousin. This year, there were no crowd at their place as they informed their relatives not to visit due to the recovery stage of my uncle who suffered stroke couple months’ ago. However, we were welcomed by them and we were happy to see our younger cousins as we only meet once a year.

Being a busy first day, we left to visit hubby’s relatives’ place where everyone gathered for this joyous occasion. When we arrived, together with my own family, we went to the host of the house and parents in law to ‘pai nien’. This is tradition and I want our children to carry on this tradition by doing it with them. J

I was really excited to Lo Hei as this is one of my favourite Yusheng. It is homemade by hubby’s aunt who does it so professionally. Everyone gathered at the table and started to toss with many good wishes for the Year of Monkey.

Gong Xi Fai Cai!

CNY Family Reunion Dinner

CNY is one of the most important festival or season for Chinese as we celebrate our New Year. Reunion Dinner is another must do for family in Chinese Culture or at least for my family. J

Yearly, we held our family reunion dinner at my aunt’s place where all cousins will gather for this exciting steamboat dinner. As our aunt is aging so, the young generation prepares the indigents and dishes for the dinner instead of the elderly.

As usual, we started off the reunion dinner with Lo Hei hopefully to toss for good fortune, good health and wishing a smooth year ahead for everyone. The kids tossed along with us too as that’s the time they won’t get a scolding if they messed up the table…

Steamboat dinner has always been exciting for me as I am a great fan of steamboat dinner. We bought many different types of raw food to cook such as fresh fish paste, wagyu beef, prawns, fish balls/meat/sotong balls, vegetables, scallops, shrimp dumplings, mushrooms etc… I simply enjoyed conversation with family members over steamboat dinner as we can cook and chat at the same time. J

After dinner, I received a surprise birthday celebration from my lovely cousins. They bought me a tasty cheesecake for the celebration and I was really caught by surprise. J

Thank you, cousins for the thoughtful celebration. J

Happy 14th Months

How time flies... our baby Emma turned 14th months old today.

At her tender age, she has started walking and in fact, running around on her own and at the same time, trying hard to talk to us in her own baby language. She does address us as Mama, Papa, Por Por, Jie Jie, Ye Ye & Maa Maa...

I would say she is more of a faster learner than her sister Faith. She could alarm us that she has pooed by touching her own diaper, walked to the kitchen pointing at her milk container if she wants milk and walked to her room when she is sleepy... sighz... growing too fast!

Happy 14th Months Emi and we love you to bits....

Lo Hei @ Home

We too started the Lo Hei at the comfort of my home since CNY is near and our favourite Yu Sheng stall started their business on 3 Feb. J Hubby went to Chinatown and bought the Yu Sheng as he knows that I am a big fan of this delicious CNY salad… haahahahaha

As this is our 1^st Lo Hei at home, the cozy group tossed and wished for good health through the year. Even our little lady tossed and said well wishes too. Though she is too young to enjoy this Chinese salad but she is certainly a great fan for the crackers which represents Gold.

This will definitely not be the last Lo Hei at home and I am waiting for more to come… HUAT AHH!!!!

Lo Hei @ Office

You can say that we are a bunch of crazy people who loves to chill and enjoy good food together being it at colleague’s place or in office. Today, we specially ordered food to the office so that we can start have a Lo Hei together before the Year of Monkey arrives.

We ordered from our usual favourite zi char stall at Boon Keng and I am sooooooooo missing the Asam Fish curry and their prawn rolls!!! I can’t recall when was the last time we had that in the office for our lunch but today, we definitely enjoyed the dishes.

We invited Yatomi-san to join us for the Lo Hei and luncheon as he is very into Chinese tradition and given full respect to our culture. He was very happy to be invited to our lunch gathering though it was at our own humble dining room.

It was his time trying out the Asam curry fish and he loves it. I was very confident that he would enjoy as he loves spicy food just like all of us. J This is only the beginning of our office Lo Hei and I am sure that there will be more to come…. Woohoo!!!

With this Lo Hei today, it marks my 5^th so far… count with me yea… J Cheers!!