With the Christmas lightings all around the island and Christmas songs playing repetitively round the clock, it is hard not to soak in the festive mood. We dont really celebrate Christmas but it is one of my favourite times of the year (apart from Chinese New Year). Everyone just looks so happy, and many people go on leave, which means much quieter in the office as well.
Papa, all I want for Christmas is the BIG teddy bear!
Christmas tree at Vivo City
A pose for the camera
Candy house at Changi Airport - grab as much as you can fit into the small container
In front of the candy house
Hi, I'm a little bunny and I want the carrots over there
A pose for the camera
Candy house at Changi Airport - grab as much as you can fit into the small container
In front of the candy house
Hi, I'm a little bunny and I want the carrots over there
Chinese New Year
Ahh... another favourite time of the year. This time with decorations all over the house, clothes hunting, inserting crisp new notes into red packets, attempting to clean up the house (but not very successful). Although no one's visiting our humble little abode, I like to create the CNY atmosphere at home.
I put up the decorations 2 weekends ago while Kaelyn was asleep. When she woke up, she immediately noticed there were many new red objects hanging around the house. She excitedly pointed to them and made many comments (which unfortunately none of us could figure out what she was saying).
To me, every year's CNY is the same. On the first day of new year, we would visit both sets of parents and grandmothers. And on the second day, we would visit David's uncle and stay for dinner. Same as the year before and the year before last ..... I always look forward to CNY not because of the visitings or giving out red packets. But more of the festive mood and new year food and goodies which I indulge in only once a year. It is only during this period I get to eat my grandma's home made fried glutinous rice and 'kong ba pao' - Hokkien dishes that I love for as long as I could remember. There would also be my mum-in-law's home made specialties like 'ngoh hiang' and 'popiah'. My mum will also whip up my favourite 'chap chye'. Not forgetting abalone and yu sheng are a must as well.
Although I was nursing a bad throat infection hence missed out on the yummy goodies, and had to rush a bit of work over the CNY period, it still didnt dampen my spirits too much. I will still look forward to next year's CNY (a little too early, you think?).
On the first day of CNY - getting ready to start a day of visiting with the cheeky gal
Tradition to have a family picture taken on first day of CNY
My grandma, Kaelyn's 'ah zu'
Kaelyn's 'ah zu' and 'gu po' (my aunt)
'ah yi' (my sis) and 'gu ma' (my sis-in-law) found Kaelyn too cute to resist, especially in her new Japanese outfit with bells, which we bought from Hokkaido.
Kaelyn with cousin Gaven at their ye ye / nai nai's house
Kaelyn's outfit for second day of CNY - another one we bought from Hokkaido
Posing for camera
A grouchy Kaelyn with her 'biao gu' (David's cousins)
She refused to be carried by them so we had to plonk her on the sofa between them
Ahh... another favourite time of the year. This time with decorations all over the house, clothes hunting, inserting crisp new notes into red packets, attempting to clean up the house (but not very successful). Although no one's visiting our humble little abode, I like to create the CNY atmosphere at home.
I put up the decorations 2 weekends ago while Kaelyn was asleep. When she woke up, she immediately noticed there were many new red objects hanging around the house. She excitedly pointed to them and made many comments (which unfortunately none of us could figure out what she was saying).
To me, every year's CNY is the same. On the first day of new year, we would visit both sets of parents and grandmothers. And on the second day, we would visit David's uncle and stay for dinner. Same as the year before and the year before last ..... I always look forward to CNY not because of the visitings or giving out red packets. But more of the festive mood and new year food and goodies which I indulge in only once a year. It is only during this period I get to eat my grandma's home made fried glutinous rice and 'kong ba pao' - Hokkien dishes that I love for as long as I could remember. There would also be my mum-in-law's home made specialties like 'ngoh hiang' and 'popiah'. My mum will also whip up my favourite 'chap chye'. Not forgetting abalone and yu sheng are a must as well.
Although I was nursing a bad throat infection hence missed out on the yummy goodies, and had to rush a bit of work over the CNY period, it still didnt dampen my spirits too much. I will still look forward to next year's CNY (a little too early, you think?).
Reunion dinner with my family on eve of CNY eve - lao yu sheng followed by steamboat
On the first day of CNY - getting ready to start a day of visiting with the cheeky gal
Tradition to have a family picture taken on first day of CNY
My grandma, Kaelyn's 'ah zu'
Kaelyn's 'ah zu' and 'gu po' (my aunt)
'ah yi' (my sis) and 'gu ma' (my sis-in-law) found Kaelyn too cute to resist, especially in her new Japanese outfit with bells, which we bought from Hokkaido.Kaelyn with her other great-grandma (David's grandmother)
Second round of lao yu sheng at in-laws on first day of CNY
Second round of lao yu sheng at in-laws on first day of CNY
Kaelyn with cousin Gaven at their ye ye / nai nai's house
Kaelyn's outfit for second day of CNY - another one we bought from Hokkaido
Posing for camera
A grouchy Kaelyn with her 'biao gu' (David's cousins)She refused to be carried by them so we had to plonk her on the sofa between them
