Chinese New Year 2013

Happy Chinese New Year! Okays kidding. It’s long over.

I know right, I took a million years to do up this post -.-

Anyways here’s what I did for CNY Eve, Day 1, Day 2, Day 7, Day 15!

Day 3 was just relatives visiting my house, so no photos =P

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CNY Eve

Like what other families do, CNY Eve is when we have our steamboat.

Grandma always prepare lots of yummy food. One of our favorite would definitely be the braised (and smoked, I think) pig stomach. Grandma always washes it thoroughly and it has no stinky smell at all!

And as usual, it is also my standard Do-My-CNY-Nails Day. Did red hearts nails.

You can take a look at the tutorial here ;)

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CNY Day 1

Same as the past few years, CNY Day 1 is always the day where we will go to Loyang Tua Pek Kong in the morning, and my paternal relatives will visit us from evening till night. This year’s slightly different though. Day 1 became slack day cause of of 4 families, only 1 came. The rest all overseas, so they arranged to come on Day 3 instead.

Outfit of the Day

Top: Abercrombie

Shorts: Abercrombie

Cardigan: H&M

Photos at the temple :) 

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CNY Day 2

CNY Day 2 is always the day for us to go gather at our maternal family’s place. Actually we have gathering every Sunday. Just saying that CNY Day 2 is a maternal family gathering day as well.

Makeup in the morning.

The crazy amount of makeup I use each time hahahas.

You can checkout my facial highlights tutorial here :)

Lou Hei at maternal family's place.

Before and after hahahas!

For those who don’t know, my maternal family owns an eatery biz!

They even got featured on ieatishootipost before!

It's on hungrygowhere too :) So whoever go there and eat, please help review ;)

So everytime we go to our maternal family's place, we always get to eat lots of yummy food!!! :)

I love their sweet and sour (or thai sweet chili) abalone!

I am super lucky that both sides of my family cooks really well.

Then we had a full maternal family portrait :)

Outfit of the Day

Dress: Bugis Junction

Belt: Forever21

Clutch Bag: Dorothy Perkins

Wedges: Steve Madden

When we reached home at night, we took our own family portraits too.

Need to find a nice new corner to take photo! Every year same place leh!

Anyways, sis and I were camwhoring after that lols.

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CNY Day 7

It’s everyone’s birthday! And the tradition was to Lou Hei.

So we did as well ;) Same as last year, we bought our Lou Hei from Sakae Sushi.

May everyone’s wishes come true!

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CNY Day 15

The last day of CNY. This time we didn’t have steam boat though.

Instead we have a few yummy dishes.

This is the only thing that is different this year! Hahas!

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That’s all I did during CNY hahahas! I think I’m old already :(

Now no longer get hyped up before/during CNY lols.

It’s like when you are young, you look forward to CNY cause you get to buy new clothes.

But now, I don’t need to wait for CNY and I am always shopping haha =P
Plus CNY is getting mundane, always the same each year.
Can something exciting/fun happen for the next CNY? :)

CNY Goodies Shopping for my DIP Group :)

Had dinner with Cheryl and tried the beancurd that Joyce recommended.

Hall 2 canteen new Nanny's Tau Huey!

The same stall that sells the milkcurd :)

Tried it and it was really very smooth.

But the liquid tastes like those canned soya bean milk!

Maybe cause it was a lil too sweet. 

( Other than oily stuffs, I don't like stuffs that are too sweet =P )

After dinner, I took 179 from canteen 2 bus stop to Jurong Point :)

Escalator to the market place in Jurong Point :)

Was planning on going to NTUC first to get the CNY goodies :)

All the CNY goodies were on offer!

All buy 1 get 1 free!

But they didn't look yummy :(

So I decided to go and get the Bak Kwa first.

No Kim Hock Guan there.

So no choice, next best alternative would be Bee Cheng Hiang.

Bought 600g of round chicken coins bak kwa at $28.80!

Then saw another NTUC nearby!

So I went there to see if they had other CNY goodies there.

And lucky me. I found yummier looking pineapple tarts and almond biscuit.

Original price was $12.80 but since it was on offer,

I bought both at $12.80 :)

All the stuffs I bought!

On my way back to hall :)

Bought the food that the group requested for hahas.

Actually not really the whole group requested for food.

Only Chor Seng and Jonavan =P

Ldr and I treat. So halved the cost :)

And we had our CNY "celebration" the next day!

Ate in the lab =P

The lab tech was nice and allowed us too.

And we suddenly had a funny chat about fireworks?!?

They were debating about watching fireworks on youtube or in a bubble lift.

Lols! So Joy and I were laughing like crazy.

I even whispered to her "why not watch live" hahas.

True what! What do you girls think? =P

I will prefer to watch live if I really wanted to watch fireworks.

But if really two choose one,

Actually bubble lift also okay la. 

If really can reach there at the right time to see the fireworks.

It's like watching fireworks in a hotel/on singapore flyers arr.

But the youtube one...

If my bf ever tells me that, I will laugh first.

But if he's really serious. Then I might get angry lols!

Yupp yupps so I have a really funny DIP group =P

They can randomly debate about anything hahas.

Sakae Sushi Yusheng

Chinese New Year Chu 7 is 人日 :)

Which means it's everyone's birthday.

And I think its a tradition to Lou Hei on that day.

Mummy and I went to Sakae to collect while daddy waited in the car.

So many bags on the table!

Saw ours ;)

Cause we've already paid for it afew days ago.

So we could collect it straight away.

Collected our bag of Yusheng!

They've changed this year.

Is the past they just gave the paper box.

This time they put everything in a recycling bag!

So it's much more convenient and easier to hold :)

Stuffs in the bag :)

Lou Hei when we reached home :)

There's even jellyfish in it!

And their honey syrup is in a cute bottle :)

Removed the box and added the ingredients one by one while saying all the auspicious words :)

All 7 of us! :)

We added another 2 packets of biscuit that we bought separately :)

And we also added abalone in it!

Lou Hei!

Taking the full abalone ;)

Was feeling super full after that hahas!

Ate alot of the biscuit :)

So that was all for our lou hei :)

Ending this post with something random!

See pockets of light in the sky?

Took this opposite my block :)

Thought it was really cool.

But sis says its very common in USA.

I'm looking forward to my trip to USA! :)