Reunion Dinner with Ma's Godbro
]The annual vegetarian reunion meal with WaiPo...Mama's godbro brought us cracker goodies
A Michelin gourmand restaurant
It was rather tasty...but let us just say, nothing could be better than lots of MEAT...heh...the rest came over to our home for MJ and a dinner filled with scrumptious meat dishes..HA
The cute little lass looked like the famous TV show character Huan Zhu Gege
She and her kooky friends
Emma was an especially fun person to be with...she gave food names to these friends and Mei was Bubble Tea! Quite apt, considering how much she loved bubble tea, especially the winter melon one from Liho..
Tong's 13th Birthday on the eve of CNY
Our pride and joy second born
Tong said he was Dylan's favourite cousin...
We loved you to the moon and back, Tong
Reunion dinner with Grand Uncle Brian, Beo Gor Po and Ah Gong, Ah Ma...our second Lo Hei for the year...the first being at the vegetarian restaurant...
1st Day of CNY
At Granduncle Ronald's home...we had new additions this year - Xiaoshu's twins and Uncle JJ's Zoro
OOOO...we heard that it would be a prosperous year for the Roosters (and hens). There were quite a few roosters in our extended family - Papa, me, Aunt Candice, Uncle Zhihong...and oh Uncle Cavan!
Gasp, the very bold attempt by Xiaobiaogu and Uncle Kenny to replicate this snake Yusheng design...well it did look better in photo than in real life, but what a valiant undertaking
Ah...fourth LO HEI? Did one at Waipo's home before we came back to Ah Ma's house. Well...for the past few years, CNY Day 1 would start with brunch at Ah Ma's house (ah...her painstakingly, lovingly made chang shou mian), then meeting Ah Ma's family at Grand Uncle Ronald's home...then meeting your maternal cousins at Waipo's home...and the last stop would be meeting the paternal cousins at Ah Gong's home
Ok, family shot of the year
Well, the classic cousins' shot according to height...Jie used to be taller than all of them...alas, but had since be relegated to the middle position...interestingly, Daddy also occupied the middle position among his cousins..
Wacky shots
Was dabbing still trending? Someone brought up that they did a dabbing shot in Taiwan and Kaysen did it in the opposite direction...we made up the story that he was standing next to the wall, so his dab bounced off the wall and reversed direction...nay he was just clueless...hA
SMRT's signature thumbs-up look?
Ah...bliss to be with the extended family...
Uncle Kenny was the unofficial photographer. This year, he upped his game by using his Apple watch to take the photos (he could even see what was being taken on the watch). It was rather disconcerting to us as we were used to having the cameraman stand before us and giving the commands but he was hidden in some secret corner. HA...so he decided to stand next to the camera and activated the 3 second countdown so there was a flash and the people knew when to look and SMILE!
Ha, Aunt Lindy was checking out Papa's swollen tummy..hmmm
What were we laughing about? Heh...Uncle Kenny often would capture such candid shots..perhaps he especially loved all the laughing shots for he captured one of Meimei falling backwards and squashing Jun and the two of them chuckling away...
Someone commented that Uncle Zhihong looked exceptionally big in this photo..hahaha...well i guessed that was why Papa had to hide behind Mama
Ha the very serious old folks...Mama did the scratch card game with them. Aunt Chuping won the top prize of $38, Aunt Candice $28 and our lucky star Tong picked the $18! Everyone was tickled pink by the game though most people got $2!
2nd Day of CNY
At God Grandparents' home...Eryi wearing Mei's hairband...ha...Mei was really sick yesterday and just slept the day away...everyone was really feeling sorry for the adorable sweet little lass who usually would be as chirpy as a bird...but we knew she was getting better last night as she had enough energy to scold Gege..and this morning she sprang up and said, "Mama, my eye doesn't hurt and I feel much better!" and... began yapping away...
Well...it was Tong's turn...red eyes, sniffy nose, aching body... oh boy oh boy
Went to the playground downstairs...
Heh...how lucky it was to have 4 doting daughters...
Almost all of us were in this lovely shade of peachy pink, except for Xiaoyi...looked as if we were taking wedding shots and she was the bride
Heh...Time to change our profile pic (the one we were using was the one we took at Genting Highlands many years ago!)
Hope we would always be healthy and wealthy! HA
So bad to end at this domestic abuse shot...
Er YI and all came over to our home to play MJ. We had our fifth LO HEI...
Update on Chu San: the small kids (Mei and Jun) were back in school...Tong and Xun were at home to do home-based learning...wish Friday was a public holiday too...but oh well...we had a blast...and...could not wait to celebrate Mei's birthday in Malaysia next month!
I prayed over our family and extended families:
天伦之乐，岁岁平安
