And there are 15 days of CNY!

CNY Day 5 BFF Y was back from Perth. She brought her little girl K over for CNY breakfast. I could hardly bear to let her leave. Is it going to be another 2 years before we see each other again?! I miss her. CNY Day 11 Early 元宵 dinner with my family over the [...]

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CNY Day 4

Popiah Party! We also had kueh pie ti, chicken wings, fish balls, sotong balls and curry puffs. Kueh lapis for dessert. But the food was just an appetizer for the fun that was to come. It was not long before everybody gave up the pretense of lunch. And took over the kid’s table for some [...]

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CNY Day 3

Most memorable moment: She polished off an entire plate of egg tarts! Lunch with Mr Fluffy Hubby’s father at the hotel next door. After lunch, we forced him to go over to our place where we made him watch the DVD of her annual school concert. He left with a big bag filled with bak [...]

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CNY Day 2

开工大吉! My father’s company lunch with all their business associates and closest friends marks the start of the new working year. I’ve been going to this all-important lunch since I was born. When I was a kid, this was my favourite day of the new year. Everybody knows, you wear new clothes on the 1st [...]

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CNY Day 1

We brought Rabbit everywhere with us! We started our day only at noon, over at Mr Fluffy Hubby’s mother’s place. She’s a culinary whiz who’s always experimenting with the newest recipes. So after our 鱼生, we had lightly fried chicken rolls stuffed with ham and prawn tempura stuffed with minced pork. Plus her signature 五香, [...]

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Reunion Dinner

Reunion Dinner was at my parents’ place. We had 佛跳墙 which was marvellous as usual. But what I really enjoyed were… My favourite Chinese New Year dish — 鱼生! Mr Fluffy Hubby surprises me every year with how well he knows the ritual and with his secret stash of Chinese New Year auspicious wishes. It’s [...]

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CNY Celebration in School

The night before her CNY celebration in school, she packed chocolate coins for her friends. 2 coins in each red packet. Then she packed oranges for her teacher. 2 oranges for each teacher. The next morning, I had to lug her out of bed. She seemed dreadfully tired, so much so that she wanted to [...]

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CNY Preparations

We were real speedy this year. We got our CNY goodies almost a month early. I was looking to buy bread for next day’s breakfast, somehow stumbled into a cookie shop and ended up sampling a lot of their CNY goodies. I emerged with pineapple tarts, prawn rolls and arrowhead chips. After that, it’s been [...]

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Happy Chinese New Year!

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Sugar Sugar aka Love Is In The Air

An indulgent hi-tea. Some extravagant jewellery. But nothing beats the moment when our 4.5 years old little girl asked, “Mummy, why did you marry Papa? He is always laughing at you.” With tears in my eyes, I gasped, “Oh yes, he’s been laughing at me for EIGHT YEARS.”

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