新年快乐

The Chinese New Year holidays have just ended and this is this is how I spent the past few days...

Friday 20th Jan : Wifey and myself were on leave that day to do a final spring cleaning. Cleaned up the window grills in the morning. Phew, it was a tough task with all the dead insects trapped in our white window frame leaving stains all over. Spent close to 5 hours on the windows alone. After that it was vacuming and moping the floors of the whole house than finally washing off those dead insects that has accumulated on the corridoor. Oh in the morning i went with mom to the market to do some marketing for steamboat reunion dinner. In the evening, we went to our final service at Nexus Auditorium. It was packed to the brim and we had to sit in the overflowing room . What a way to say goodbye to Cuppage. After service, me and wifey went to Chinatown to soak in the festive atmosphere.

Encountered an unscrupulous vendor selling jelly who tried to stuff 3kg of jellies to us ($36!!!) when we only chose less than 1kg. Wifey got so upset and told the vendor off for doing such a despicable act and we ended up walking away without getting anything from that stall. After that incident, we both found the man amusing when we recall how he tried to "act" as if he is doing us a favour by giving us free jellies... man... classic. Anyway, we didn't allow him to spoil our mood. ( thank God we still managed to get a bus home at about 12:15am.) We also got some small cute dolls for glenda and Gianna at one of the shops. We were beat when we reached home.
21st Jan: Played soccer in the morning with the AMK gang. This time i invited Jamel to join us. Hope he really enjoyed himself. In the afternoon, we went to NTUC to get some stuffs for BBQ in the evening. that includes Tiger Prawns, Squid, Scallops, Beef, Fish fillet and mushrooms... all set for a superb BBQ right ??!! WRONG!! it was disastrous as we failed to get the fire up for more than an hour. ( We did see a beautiful rainbow though )

finally we decided to switch to using the electronic grill... it was fine for awhile until that too broke down on us ( perhaps due to the fact that we were using aluminium foil which somehow managed to spoil the set ) finally, we resorted to cooking the food instead using the trusted frying pan ;o( . I was getting tired and frustrated by the failure to launch and did not really enjoy my dinner that night. Tired....
22nd Jan: Lunar New Years Eve! This year, we had reunion lunch at Theresa's parents place. It was steamboat as per usual and despite being a hot and sunny day outside, i managed to stay cool and enjoyed the steamboat. The food is nice and we chatted as we ate as a family. Finished the lunch at about 2pm and rested while ( keep dozing off at the sofa while watching TV ) Wifey helped by clearing the dishes and after that she , Stef and mom stayed in the room to chat and do their nails. We left at about 430pm. Bought a pot of small tomato plant from a lorry below our flat for $10. Good Deal..

Had my 2nd round of steamboat at home with folks, grandpa and Aunt Sally. This year, dad bought Pen Cai from Zi Yean Restaurant but we do not think it is fantastic. Average at best. After dinner, we went back home to catch some TV (New Year Variety Programme) after midnight, we went back up to folks to give them Ang Pow and wish them Happy New Year.
23rd Jan: 1st day of new year, went to Grandpa’s home and met up my relatives there. Stayed for about 2 hours and then its off to my dua kim’s house and then gor ku’s place.

We were done with the visitations by 330pm and headed home… tired… dinner was a repeat of the leftover steamboat. After dinner, wifey finally fulfilled her desire to paint the puny nails of G & G….

glenda proudly showing off her nails
their introduction to Vanity…. Thanks to Auntie Theresa…
24th Jan: 2nd day of new year. Visited Theresa’s folks and had our lunch there as well. Watched a bit of TV and went home late afternoon. Dinner was KFC and Pizza.
25th Jan: 3rd day of new year which is a working day but we took leave to rest abit more. Had our breakfast at Macdonalds at HarbourFront and then walked around Vivo City.After that we went home to rest and than went over to Queenstown Swimming Pool for a swim. Had a leisure couple of laps at the baby, medium and finally adults pool and just taking in a bit of sunshine. Dinner was at the crowded KEK, Had spareribs king, sambal kangkong and claypot Pork Liver ( my Fav ! )

There you have it, how I spent 6 Days of holidays….