Chinese New Year 2018

Hello readers! wishing everyone a happy Chinese New Year! This post will be a consolidation of all the different days of celebrating CNY as i combine all the photos together in this post.

This year was the year of dog and also the first year that i am distributing angbaos as a newly wed couple. Even though Jeremy is not in Singapore for CNY this year, but angbao is still a must to distribute! Hahaha. So i went online and purchase this super cute dog design angbao for this year as shown above.

Usually, i am very busy during the eve of cny, as my own parents have been keeping the traditions of praying and we don't usually eat reunion dinner on the eve of cny because this takes the entire day. It was a contrast to Jeremy's family or rather majority of the family do eat reunion dinner during the eve of CNY except my own family. Even though i am married now, but i am still staying at my parents house while waiting for our own house to be ready, thus i do still have to help out with my family traditions. It's just that instead of spending a whole day at home to help out, i spend half a day returning back to Tampines to have reunion dinner with his parents on the eve of chinese new year before i drive back to woodlands to help out again at my own parents house.

Many of my friends were quite surprised despite Jeremy's absence in town that i would still try to visit Jeremy's parents at least once every two weeks without his accompany. I am not exactly close to his parents, but i thought i could go back at least fortnightly in case they need me to check anything etc.

When i went back to Tampines during the CNY eve, i was not feeling well, was having a sore throat, i guess it's due to overconsumption of peach. Hahaha the peach was too irresistible, sweet and juicy! So on cny day 1, i lose my voice. This lasted very long even when CNY is ending but i was not recovering.

 (Mainly because on one side i was feeding on medicine, on the other side i was still eating all the cny goodies snacks) Hahaha.

Took some photos of my parents house decor, this year has two additional dog plush toy because olm thought it was cute when we were shopping at the Giant mart @ Tampines and i became the one who paid for it. Did you spot the centre one? Hahaha

The amount of foods & drinks prepared at my house during cny.

On the cny eve, i just changed to my new akemi bedsheets and i haven even sleep on it and this cheeky duffy was already standby position preparing to jump up on my bed when i was warning her with my eye contact.

 Close up of her cheeky face when i told her 'No, she can't get up' but she did.

When everyone is busy, she will run around looking at what we are doing, sometimes, she is better known as a teddy bear instead of a dog because she is way too active

This year, beside Duffy, it was also the first time Miu Miu (newly adopted dog) celebrate her first chinese new year in our family! I bought them this super cute gold color chain for them to wear during the chinese new year!

 This is miu miu! Hahaha she has very big eyes too!

Duffy! 

I thought this was a cute shot as it seem like they are queuing up for their treat with Duffy and Miumiu each looking at one side and we have our neighbour dog waiting outside our door too! Haha.

For CNY day 2,it was visiting my family relative side, this year among us cousins, we come to an agreement to gather at just two houses, one in the afternoon and the other one at night and every year we will go by rotation basis so we don't have to go house hopping from one house to another one, and more time for bonding aka gambling sessions. Haha, so this year we started at our elder aunt house follow by gathering at my house. All dressed up preparing to head to my aunt house!

Duffy do get jealous whenever we play with Miu Miu, if we appear to play more with her, she will try to push miu miu. 

I got them matching outfits!

My elder aunt house has alot more dogs, while Duffy was excited playing with everyone, Miu Miu was shivering for a moment and keeping close to my mum, probably worried that we might leave her over here. Hahaha. while at my aunt house, she didn't dare to move around but choosing to stay at my side. 

We had the bbq steamboat before the first yusheng!

Luckily our house was big enough to place two long table for the bbq steamboat! 

Don't look at her looking so innocent.

When she is angry, this is her dramatic expression! Hahaha

But then again, most of the times she is still nice.. haha

Olm took some random shots of her in her room, she is really cute at times.

Miu Miu when they bring her out for their doggy swimming session.

During the chinese new year season, there are so many movies to watch and there was a day where i met up with JJ and JY to watch a movie @ Yishun and this was our dinner at Northpoint city. Yishun Northpoint has changed so much! We had almost the same main course so i only took one shot of it.

On another separate day, Mummy cook this! This is really good!

During the month of february, it seems a whole month of feasting, back at my work, we had the cny staff lunch as well! We lao alot of yusheng as well! As i am under the staff welfare committee, thus i went up earlier to help out on the checking of the foods that my colleague has ordered.

The food really look good!

Usually i would invite all my friends to my house during the cny season for bbq steamboat gathering, but this time round, since i don't have my voice back in time, it was hard for me to host so i had it cancelled. The only one that i had was inviting my colleague for the first time to my house for dinner!

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Yet another yusheng after the dinner! As they came over to my house on a weekday night so they couldn't stay long, so probably will organise next time on a friday night so everyone doesn't have to rush to go off.

As my family dialect is hokkien, so another of the tradition that my parents has been keeping to, on the Chinese new year day 9, we will have this praying session to the 天公。(aka praying to the god)

I am not sure whether i will still need to keep up with this tradition next time especially i am married into the teochew family. But keeping a photo of the preparation for my own reference next time.
Though typically not all hokkien family is require to offer so many items during the praying session, this only applies to my family. Haha

Before i end this post, showing more photos of Miu miu and duffy, their different set of cny outfit! Haha

 Isn't she adorable? Haha

When mama scold her because she didn't pee properly, she will give this kind of head bow low, refusing to eat for the entire day. Super got character dog. haha

Till then!

Valentine's Day without Jeremy

Hello readers! I didn't really celebrate Valentine's day this year as Jeremy was not in town, so to me it was just a normal day especially when CNY is approaching and there were so much to help out in my house. I did took leave just to do my hair before going back and Jeremy was so excited as he wanted to make sure that i stays at home during the evening because he mentioned there were surprise for me! So this beautiful bouquet of flowers and teddy bear was his surprise to me even though he couldn't celebrate Valentine day with me this year.

Before that, my colleague was sending me this photo that she took after she went to buy a box of peach and it looks good so i went to tease her whether the peach comes with the 'cai shen ye' and the cat plush toy. To which she tell me 'NO.' Hahaha. but i love peaches and the best peach that i ever taste so far was in Taiwan! Big and juicy peaches! I was however quite skeptical with the peaches imported in Singapore, because none has ever taste the same that i had back in Taiwan.

She didn't bought the whole box of peach to consume as she shared with another of my colleague about half of the total quantity, so the next day back in the office, she told me that i can try it for myself before deciding if its good. So i tried it, though it was still not as juicy as the one i had in Taiwan, however this was better than the typical peaches sold in the supermarket! So i get from her the address as this supplier do not have any physical store and it's self collection at her place, they imported this from Australia. It was pretty cheap too, selling for only about $28 for 23/25/28 pieces per box. So i started order taking among my friends as i wasn't sure if i could finish one box and eventually i went to liaise with the supplier and was going to purchase 3 boxes!

Another colleague of mine went with me to collect one box home while i brought the other 2 box back. The peaches are fragile so we had to handle them with care otherwise it get dented very easily as it was quite juicy. As i am writing this post, i really miss the taste of this peaches. 

Tadah, the two boxes of peaches that i bought home!

It can get really addictive as i think i eat at one time 3 a day! 1 is simply not enough! Due to over-consumption, hahaha my throat feels funny on the day of valentine day. Some of them told me peaches could be quite heaty and since it's super sweet that contribute to my sore throat on valentine's day. So after my hairdo on that day, i was home in the evening and was waiting for my surprise which i already knew it should be a bouquet of flowers that he is sending. But it was very funny when he was asking me almost every hour when the delivery man still did not delivered the 'surprise' he has for me.

I received the bouquet of flowers only close to 10pm. To me, it was quite unacceptable, delivering at such late timing might as well don't deliver. It doesn't mean that i am not celebrating valentine day or my husband is not in Singapore that i deserve to collect my flowers last right?

It was damm irritating and they could have knew it because of a postcard that Jeremy has specially asked them to write on it. I was happy to receive the flowers from Jeremy but i did also mentioned to Jeremy that he can consider ordering from other florists next time.

Making the bouquet of flowers look more outstanding with my magic hands. By using the fairy lights~

Actually, i was quite surprised that Jeremy got me this cute teddy bear as i wasn't expecting this. Hahaha. I am not really a fan of teddy bear but this teddy bear is so soft that i am keeping this! Haha even though i had been clearing soft toys as i do not have any intention to bring all into our new house next time.

Hahaha, this was in my instagram stories after i received the gift on that day.

Took this photo for olm valentine day flowers too!

Then i remember i have my duffy and shelliemay bear so i brought it out to display together! Haha

Happy Valentine's Day everybody!

Till then.