First day of CNY

Every Chinese New Year eve, Mummy will put  壓歲錢( ang pau) under the girls' pillow.  

 

During Chinese New Year, gong gong and popo will give ang pau to their children and grandchildren. And all of us will queue up and wishing them a blessed new year. And this year, the three girls were well trained with greeting everybody with "Gong Xi Fa Chai" 恭 喜 發 財 ( wishing you prosperity) " Wan Shi Ru Yi" 萬 事 如 意 ( May all your wishes come true) and Shen Ti Jian Kang ( stay healthy ).

MS

 

LS

 

 MS with popo

 

 

On the first day of Chinese New Year, we had vegetarian dishes.

Gong Hei Fatt Choy !

 

 

After lunch, the girls requested popo to teach them a dance.

 

Chinese New Year eve

We went back to Ipoh during Chinese New Year eve this year. The girls enjoyed the stay very much - play, eat and sleep a lot.

ES was busy helping MS in hairdo.

 

After breakfast, they went to playground. They requested to go to the playground opposite popo's house every morning.

MS

 

LS

 

 

We had steamboat the on new year eve.

 

The girls enjoyed their steamboat dinner at their small table while the adults were at the other dining table.

 

After dinner, the girls went out to watch fireworks.

Eating again after dinner..... Vegetable pau made by popo..... 

Surprise....

On the day before we returned to our hometown, the girls ( especially LS & MS ) keep on asking us not to go home. They wanted to stay in the hotel. This always happened when the holiday ends....

 

They got a surprise while we are waiting for our flight. They saw an indoor playground at the Family Zone.

LS: Woohoo... it was so much fun!

MS

The girls were busy playing at the Family Zone and they don't feel bored while waiting for the flight!

                          

Exploring Singapore Zoo

The girls were excited as Daddy arrived in Singapore on the second day we were in Singapore. We decided to bring the girls to Singapore Zoo on the third day. Like the environment here. We did not feel too hot even on a sunny afternoon, as there are a lot of trees along the walking path.

 

We are ready.... to walk into the tiger trek!

 

 

MS trying to measure how big is the tiger's footprint.

Oh... this is how the tiger roar.

The white tiger

 

Look, we are here.

 

MS trying to figure out where she wanted to go after this.

 

The Asian Small-clawed otter.

 

Penguin

 

We went for the "Elephants at Work and Play" show too. During the show, they demonstrates how elephants are used as beasts of burden in south-east Asian countries. The animal caretakers are referred to as mahouts, and the show simulates how a mahout would instruct an elephant to transport logs or kneel down so that they can be mounted.

 

 

 This is the fun part - merry go round!

 

 ES wanted to see what is in the igloo.

ES wanted to have a closer look at the polar bear, but it was hiding somewhere. Think she missed the polar bear in Oregon Zoo....

 

 

 

Happy birthday, Mummy!

We celebrated mummy's birthday on Friday ( a day earlier ) as we are going back to Ipoh during weekends for Wei auntie's wedding dinner. Usually we will bake our own cakes, but with the busy schedule in work this year, I told daddy it will be fine that we just go for a simple dinner without a cake cutting ceremony. And guess what, after came back from dinner, daddy surprised us with this Hello Kitty cake. Haha.....

 

 

 

On mummy's birthday, ah yi bought another fruit flan cake - a cake where we used to buy for many years when any of our family members celebrating birthday. Thank you!

 

Twins in action - pizza making!

MSLS were having fun helping mummy making pizza last Sunday. I prepare the pizza dough and the girls tried to arrange the topping.

 

Putting what they wanted to have on the pizza - tomatoes, pineapples, cheese, basil leaves, bell pepper....

 

Another version - seafood pizza!

Second day of CNY

We went to Ah Cho's house on the second day of CNY, a family gathering with ah ma's brothers, sisters and all the cousins & relatives.

 

After the lunch gathering, we went to gong gong and popo's house. During Chinese New Year, it is a tradition in gong gong and popo's house that we wish them with new year greetings before receiving our and pau. 

ES in action!

 

 

MS: Gong Xi Fa Cai, Wan Shi Ru Yi, Shen Ti Jian Kang

 

 and LS's turn...

 

Our favourite - gu lou yok

 

 Popo also prepared suan pan zi

 And the so called non spicy " sei dai tin wong ".

 

 With abalone & chicken soup.

 

 

Every year, we received a tin of Love Letter without fail, from my babysitter's daughter.

 

And this year, popo made a loaf of fruit cake... and we had the same back in penang too, by gugu.

 

 We had our lou sang session in ipoh again.

 

Playing with firework outside gong gong's house ....