Happy Chinese New Year 2010

After a very long break, I would like to wish everyone a very Happy & Prosperous Chinese New Year... May the year of the golden Tiger bring everyone good luck, good health, good wealth, success in love, business & career.

a GIRLY brunch

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More backdated post thanks to my laziness but hopefully, I can really back on track soon. I had a yearly reunion kind of thing with one of my BBGS gang plus a college fren juz before CNY. Since it's so hard to gather everyone, really a big thanks to Chew Ping to take the initiaves to get us together this time for dim sum brunch at Imbi Palace. As usual, when a bunch of girls meet up, there's alot of talk...... & we really can talk and eat at the same time *GIRLS mah :p *

Here's some of the food we ordered :

After the brunch, Ee Laine wanted to have a boost of coffee & so we cramped into Laine's car & head to Pavilion (cost savvy here coz parking is soooo expensive there).

A Chinese Valentine Dinner

*Chor 15*

I know CNY is over for almost 1 month but being the 'busy' me, I only managed to scrap the Chor 15 LO today. Hence, the lateness of my CNY blog *pai seh*

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Since it is the last day of CNY, we had another reunion dinner. This time, everyone managed to attend (only 6 people including my bro's gf & not forgetting lil Cheng Cheng). My dad managed to cooked us a delicious dinner even though he's working tat day & Wen Jye managed to buy the Salmon Yee Sang for us.

Since I'm working as well, I didn't do much on that night but to makan & watch movies while my dad, mum & lil bro have their usual 'games' at the new house (yeah, I overnite at the new house coz lazy to drive back to my place & I must say, the traffic is not tat bad in the morning ).

So, this ends the CNY activities except for the CNY decos in shopping malls that I have yet to scrap. I really hope I can finish it by March.

Everyone's Birthday

*chor 7, Yan Yat*

Oops, I missed Chor 7's post & uploaded the chor 8. Here's what happened on Chor 7 (^-^)

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Well, on this day, it's everybody's birthday acording to the Chinese custom but I still go to work though my dad n bro took leave.

We had a simple dinner of roast pig's bone porridge *Yumm...* and a very basic Yee Sang. Didn't go to town to get the fancy type but since it's chor 7 whereby the actual day to 'Lou Sang', we (me & lil bro) can't resist getting 1 'mai' of it. This 'Rainbow' Yee Sang is just from the usual stall in Taman Megah which cost us only RM 23 or so....

Lunch break = Bai Lin

*Chor 5 lunch break*

Since I didn't take any additional leave for these CNY, I started work on Chor 5 , 15th Feb 08. The office was quite empty with a few MEOW around & my usual gang is still on holiday. Hence, I went to my aunt's place for lunch reunion. Too bad that the area has water cut, I'm a bit dissapointed for not having some really good food cooked by my Yee Ma. Instead, my cousin sis tapau KFC for all the relatives (not my fav. though, so I ate 1 small pc).

The attention of the day of course was the arrival of the youngest great grand daughter , my niece, Cheng Cheng. She's so adorable and everyone just want to get hold of her. I did manage to snap 1 photo of my grandma with my niece before I make a move back to work. That makes them Great Grand relationship -> Great grandma, Great grand daughter ....

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Chinese New Year *Chor 3*

*chor 3 @ our place*

CNY to me always means visiting relatives & Chor 3 is no difference. We open our house (the new one @ Kajang) for our relatives to visit us and to make our house a bit merrier (^-^) during CNY. This also means that we need to prepare some food and my mum had not really prepared the menu *Aik!! Lucky my place is near Jusco Cheras Selatan & we went there on the nite before to stock up for the simple lunch.*

I woke up super early on Chor 3 to see & make sure my mum cook wat we bought last nite & also just to supervised a bit on the vege since it's a new dish to her but ended up preparing for the vege coz my mum dunno wat I want. I dun cook coz my taste bud is a bit blend, so, if I cook, it either end up bland or too salty *LOL*. My big contribution to the lunch was to use the broiler to oven cooked the Vegetarian Pandan Chicken. Here's what we managed to prepare :

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We have pandan chicken, stir fry mix vege (lotus root, celery, carrot & sweet peas) & steam chicken which is my dad's best dish. Not to forget a big pot of Abalone Ginseng Chicken soup that will satisfy everyone stomach.

After the lunch, we have some light entertainment (you know wat I mean lar, those we usually play during CNY *wink*) for the relatives and the session lasted till almost 5pm. As for me, I got bored by 2pm and started to fall asleep *pai seh*... and I did slept for awhile .... yawn....

That ends the event for 3rd day of CNY...

PS: Just incase all of you were wondering why suddenly there's alot of Chinese Word in my scrap --> I found out that my windows can choose the language, so I use the Chinese PRC to type the Han Yu Pin Yin and click on the word that I want. No, I dunno Chinese but I can recognise some vy basic word & used it to the max :p

Reunion lunch on Chor 2

*chor 2 @ popoyi place*

Every year on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year, we will go over to my mum's side to 'bai lin' and usually, it will be at my youngest uncle's place. This is because his place is the largest that can house all 8 siblings' family. My youngest 'kaumo' will cook a simple feast for us to eat while all of us gather to enjoy and chit chat since it's really rare for all of us to get together.

Here's some really memorable photos taken during that day coz it's hard to see all together especially my mum with her sisters as shown below:

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Me and my 2 younger brothers taken on that day and I really look like their little sister since I look so short when standing between those 2 fellas :

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Since I started snapping photos, nearly everyone who's free came up to me to request to be taken with those beautiful decorations. I have too many photos and decided to do a 2 page layout and will definately print it out for them:

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This year is really a fruitful session in view of capturing the event of the day but then, it's quite boring for me after chor 2 coz no place for me to go....

PS: All my dear cousins who saw these LO, do drop me a note if you want to have it on ur blog. I will email you the copy so you can share it as well (^-^)

My fortune of the day

*Thought of posting this later but then, it's fortune of today, hence, it cut the ques of my CNY post*

I am sure alot of people knows about the fortune cookies. I am not sure who invented it but it does really gives you some fun to discover what the little piece of paper that predicts our fortune of the day (or maybe gives us some magic just like Disney movie, Freaky Friday).

I had 1 cookie today (thanks to my colleague) and what it tells me of my fortune?


I am sure everyone will agrees that our home is where we draw happiness from. Oh well, it's not really a predict the future type but it tasted very nice... had fun biting into it (^-^)

FGS Dong Zhen on Chor 1 evening

*Chor 1 evening*

I have heard about this FGS Dong Zhen from alot of people especially those avid photographer. Every year during Chinese New Year, this place will be decorated with lanterns and flowers and it has become a must visit place during CNY. I must say, it really perk ups any KL people's day coz CNY in KL is pretty much the same (which is getting quiet'er' every year).

So, since Chor 1 I got nothing to do, I bring my parents & my lil bro to visit this place. We met up with Jazzmint and hopped into her MPV to go to FGS. Lucky by the time we reached there, there's still sunlight to capture the beautiful scenary (lots of flowers which can't be seen if it's night time) and also to walk to the stalls set up along side the garden.

There's this stall that sells dolls made from coloured dough. It's really rare to find this type of stall coz it's sort of like a forgotten art. You can pay RM2 to have a spin on the wheel to see how lucky you are. If very lucky, can walk away with a big dough doll that cost RM 6 or RM8. If not, dun be despair coz you still get a small fish caught with the rod.

Give a spin and see what you can get from the dough toys stall...

RM 6 dough toys that's so cute...

Below shows some day time spots that I love at FGS. You can see there's a Wishing Tree (just like those TVB series) at the entrance to this place....

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Beautiful walkways decorate with red lanterns

Once the sun has set, the place is transformed into a land that's brightly lit by red lanterns everywhere. It's really a must to see those spectacular lighted up decorations.

Brightly lit red lanterns hanging at the arch entrance

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To see more photos, you can visit Jazzmint's site. I am still trying to find my way to skim down the photos to be uploaded to my webshot (^-^)

Chinese New Year *Chor 1 morning*

*Chor 1 morning*

My 1st day of CNy this year is very different from the year before coz Gerald is not around, I am celebrating it in KL with my family. So, early that morning, I went for Chinese New Year Service at my church. I am all set with my cheungsam (glad that I can fit into it this year but still it's a bit loose at top *sob sob* ) to go 'bai lin' with Jesus this year *LOL*.... Just incase you're wondering why got church on CNY -> It's a custom for my church to have a CNY service coz it's in a kampung whereby lots of people will come back for CNY.... The service is really amazing coz Rev. Lee really relate the talk with RAT year (will share the story later)

Me with Eva in cheongsam. I just love the photo... Dun you think we both look so lovely in cheungsam *perasan liao*

After the service, I went home to chill (before going out in the evening to the FGS Dong Zhen festival with my family & Jazzmint) & open up all my CNY tit-bits.. I really bought alot of food, especially the 'Yuk Gon' coz I bought from Weng Heong & Bee Cheng Hiang... As for the other tit-bits, you can see from the below scrap :

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That's not all the tit-bits coz there's still some I haven't open yet. I really hope I won't put on weight by month end (^-^).

Reunion Dinner cum Birthday Celebration

It's Chor 7 but I shall start my CNY post with the Reunion Dinner (^-^)

CNY Eve falls on 6th Feb 08 and it's my mum's birthday. Hence, we have 2 celebration in 1 night but we had a very simple celebration. This year the reunion dinner is just among the 5 of us coz my uncle went back to his wife's side while Gerald is in Doha. hence, just home cook meal which consist of fish, vege, chicken, roast pork & the most expensive chicken soup coz got bird nest :p

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After the dinner, we had a birthday celebration for my mum. Got a cake from Secret recipe (thanks to Tina) but the big head prawn me left the candle at my house..... we gotta make do without the candle with just song & wishes plus lots of photos. Since I look vy messy, I refused to be in the photo which I regrated when I did this LO....

Happy Birthday MUM!!!!

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Happy Chinese New Year

As you can see that my blog is all ready to greet the Chinese New Year with my early CNY banner. Here I (we) wish my(our) family, friends & colleagues a very Prosperous RAT Year. These coming few days will be very busy for me coz visiting relatives and friends while for Gerald, it's business as usual (poor Dear Dear). He got to work in Doha but then again, he is all set for the CNY. He has bought yuk gon & prawn rolls to have it tonight & tomorrow.

GONG XI FA CAI & HONG BAO NA LAI to my Dear Dear (^-^)

Caught ...

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Our darling little niece, Ariel just turned 1 in January this year. The last time we saw her, she's just a baby and now, a very cute toddler. And on the 1st day of CNY this year, she wore this beautiful red dress (very CNY look), toddling around the house & I got too excited shouting at gerald to take her photos. Here's 1 interesting photo that we managed to get. I love the way she look at the camera for this photo.

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Kota Kinabalu : Sutera Harbour Pt 2

Another spot of Sutera Harbour that provide a cooling & relaxing ambiance for people who want to escape from city life. Since they have 2 wings (Magelan & Pacific), you can assured that there're at least 2 pools for you to enjoy. Since I stay in the Pacific wing (prefer non resort style coz can't stand the humid weather), this is a shot from the Pacific poolside. You can see how clear the pool water are and the sandy beaches are just next to it.....

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Kota Kinabalu : Sutera Harbour Pt 1

It's been a busy week for me since Gerald came back on 1.6.07. We've been travelling to places in Malaysia and I just got down from Cameron Highland this minute ;) Will post up all the adventures that we both had later on. For now, let me share a beautiful place in Kota Kinabalu with you all.

For those who wish to travel to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah..... I would love to recommend this particular hotel resort for your stay. Sutera Harbour is really a great choice (besides 5 star status) because it's near town, have great view, nice beaches & beautiful yacht (they have a Marina Club as well) to see and drool *LOL*. For golf lovers, they have 18 hole golf course as well. And while your hubby gone for the golf session, you can enjoy a relaxing spa in Sutera Harbour ;)

Here's a photo of Gerald with all the beautiful yacht behind him.

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Kota Kinabalu fav breakfast spot

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Every time when we go back to Kota Kinabalu, we must go to this dim sum shop called Foo Peng, somewhere in Luyang. It's a must for me because their Har Kow Wong is so big and delicious. They served the dim sum with hot mustard sauce which we don't get it in KL. My other favourite are their Fried Prawn Roll and the dessert Water Chestnut Kuih. Too bad that I didn't take photos coz I won't wait and wallop all the food :p

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This photo was taken by Wan Peng (Gerald's friend) at the Foo Peng restaurant when we were having breakfast back in Chinese New Year. It's really rare tat we have photos of us together. Thanks alot, Wan Peng.... for taking such a good shot!

Tea Break @ Delicious

This is the 2nd stop in 1U on 27.02.07 for food @ delicious by Ms. Read. Since we are still very full & it's tea time, we only ordered 1 dessert & 2 drinks. As you can see, I ordered the Pavlova again but this time, having it with my dear dear hubby (^-^). The dessert is superb and we finished it even though our stomach have no room left. However, the milk shakes tat we ordered are too sweet for us. It's like drinking sugar water. You can see how Gerald is playing with the milk shake coz not too nice to gulp down. I still think that McD milkshake is better than this and the price is 3 times the McD price.


For the above scrap, I used eva sparkling paper, Kath Love Choc tower, ksk designs-grunge city journal, TCO Pretty Enuf alpha and Shabby Princess Kritsty staple & frame.

And since we can't finish the milkshake, this is wat we did with the milkshake to indicate it's too sweet to consume.

Gerald's chocolate milkshake

My strwberry milkshake

Brunch @ Dragon - i

Post Dated CNY blog

We got back from our long KK CNY trip on 25.02.07. Our 2nd day back in KL plan was to head to 1U to feast. This is because while my hubby was away working in Doha, I went out with frens to shop & eat So, when Gerald is back, my target is to bring him to those places with yummy food.

We got up quite early that morning but he was busy checking the car. By the time we got ready, it's already 12 noon. The 1st place we went was the Dragon-i where they serve 'siu loong bao' , 'La Mian' and all kind of chinese food. We were so hungry that we ordered fried rice, 'siu loong bao', Cold pig troter, meat & vege wan ton soup & 1 dim sum. I was so hungry until forgot to take photos of the food and Gerald but to eat when the food was served. End result? Satisfying tummy......

Gerald managed to capture my hungry & greedy look while eating & also the dishes we ordered as below.






For the scrap above, I use mjv tropical dreams kits mixed with Miss Mint Candy fairway journal & jcrowley-greenpint-charm.

Yee Sang fever

I love Chinese New Year alot. Not just because of the ang pow (used to get) but also because Yee Sang will be available throughout the month. There is alot of type available now, with the most common is the 7 Choy Yee Sang ( 7 color yee sang) and to the most expensive Abalone Yee Sang. But my favourite is the Suet Li Yee Sang. I love the fresh taste of the pear that replace the radish and sengkuang.

So, how many rounds of Yee Sang did I had? Let's see .....

1. Team lunch at Esquire Kitchen, had 7 Choy Yee Sang but it was awful. It taste too sweet and the ingredient are mostly the pickled type.
2. Me & Gerald had it with dad, mum & bro on Chor 9, where I had Salmon Yee Sang from Tai Thong.
3. Had the 7 Choy Yee Sang with frens (SJI Reunion)
4. Ta pau Sushi King Yee Sang to bring home after visit Violet.
5. Chor 15, last chance of Yee Sang; bought Overseas Suet Li Yee Sang. I must say that their portion of Yee Sang is getting smaller as compare to tai Thong.

So, all together I had 5 rounds of Yee Sang. Yummylicious ..... Can't wait for next year now

Postdated blog on CNY

Chinese New Year comes & goes

Chinese New Year comes and goes so fast...
The moment of us together also comes and goes...
What is left are just memories in our mind and heart...
For you are already back at Doha to work ....
No matter where you are, our heart will always be together...
And our love will only grow stronger as day passes by...

For you are always in my heart.