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..... 

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 ....

 

 

First day of CNY

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Getting ready to church on the first day of CNY.

 

Waiting for mass to start...

 

Big tanglung at the entrance.

Lion dance after mass.

Cai qing

Nice & meaningful red pocket bought from church.

 

As a tradition, I put two ang pau under the girls' pillows, ya shui qian ( in mandarin ). Each of us received an ang pau from ES too.

 

This is what she wrote for daddy:

Dear Daddy, Happy New Year! Daddy you will be happy because of me

 

 

Have fun at the beach

 

 

We went to the beach again the day after Christmas. We saw some parachutes when we reached there.

 

 MS's favourite activity, building sandcastle.

 

LS in action.

ES showing MS how to build a nice sandcastle.

 

Ah gong : Hey, LS, you can make your sandcastle this way.

The three generation enjoying the view.

 

 

Hey, want to try it again?

They were waiting for the wave to come....

Hahaha... It is so fun...

MS was very busy....

 

And the girls were very busy too...

Look!

 

LS saw a crab on the beach.

 

She wanted to rescue the crab.

MS and daddy were happily playing with water.

ES took a photo of ah gong and ah ma.