Chinese New Year 2011 - Family Edition

Blogging. Something I've not done for quite some time. Firstly, I'm currently hooked on the tweeting, updating my Twitter more frequent. I was seriously occupied! Busy is an understatement, I barely have time to shit some times. Youth nowadays are so good in multi-tasking, juggling so many social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Blog, Foursquare, and so on. It's good to have good networking, socializing, but don't engage in it too much till you do not have time to do productive work or even drain your precious energy.

Hmm, I never wanted to ditch this beloved blog which is filled with my memoirs, so here I am. I shall blog about an overdue post on Chinese New Year. It was a month ago? Because my paternal grandfather passed away last year October, it's Chinese Custom that we do not celebrate the following Chinese New Year, not supposed to give angpau and so on. 

However, we're not too superstitious, we went on to embrace Chinese New Year, but in a low note. Didn't do much. The Chinese New Year break this year was good because Thian Hong, Ser Siang, Wei Guan made their way back from Australia, Hong Kong and UK respectively! It was Thian Hong's first time celebrating Chinese New Year in Malaysia since he left for Australia in 2006!

Duck, Prawns, Fish, Chicken, Vegetables, Soup - Wholesome dinner  :)

Chinese New Year's Eve Reunion Dinner with the Lums at OUG.

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On the first day of Lunar Calendar, we make our way back to my maternal side, at Teluk Intan. 

Chinese New Year at Teluk Intan is becoming more on more interesting ;). With 28 grandchildren, there's never a dull moment at my uncle's place at Teluk Intan.

Very gratifying dinner at Poh Loong - also conveniently celebrate my ah ma's birthday :).

Fortune Pot? The sauce is delicious. The scallops, chicken, pork, mushrooms - delightful!

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST SOUP I EVER HAD!
As I remembered there was a whole chicken, fish maw, herbs and a lot of scallops :)

Sang mee

Halfway through dinner we were entertained with lion dance!

Meet my cool and fit 2nd uncle ;)

The youngsters - aww so cute :)

L-R Foong, myself, Irene, Wai, Ai Wee and Pui Cheng

The 'young girls' - NOTE MY MUM IS OUT OF PLACE :P

I love you ah ma :)

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This year, we had a rather formal talent time after the dinner. With cash prizes up for grabs! There were less participation than expected, but nonetheless we still had a good time :)! There were singing, dancing, skate-boarding, football freestyle and magic tricks :)

Foong and I were the emcees for the night :)

Jian Eng skate-boarding and spinning the pillow simultaneously - good balance!

Sze Hong the whiz kid performing 'magic tricks'

Not blessed with much entertaining talent, I performed juggling acts with the football :) - and won 1st runner up (cash prize of RM80 :))

'Volunteer' performers, 2nd uncle and 1st aunt singing a mandarin song together ahah :)

4th uncle from Singapore, flanked by his daughter - sharing a word of advice with his niece and nephews.

The little performers showing off their cash prizes in red packets after their performances :)

Performers for the night with VVIP - ah ma and ah kong :)

Group photo :D

 Seeking blessing by releasing flying lanterns that has wishes written on it :)

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The night is still young for the young adults :). Therefore a number of us proceed to McDonalds for supper and a prolonged chit chat session.

Gossip time ;) - had a number of good laughs sharing various stories!

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The following day, most of my relatives left Teluk Intan, leaving my family and Irene's family. So, the following day was an outing with my siblings, Jay Sern, Irene and Ai Wee. Catch a movie, went for rojak, ice kacang, played Frisbee and had a long photo-taking session. Good bonding session indeed.

One of the many cookies made by my cousins and aunt :)

Irene tossing the Frisbee!

Jump shot!

The girl that I adore most, my youngest sister :)

Flying Kick with Jay Sern!

Yes, we took pictures till sunset :P

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Later that night, we had a mini surprise birthday celebration for my mummy.

Mummy's 47 but still looking good! - All smiles :)

Oh dear, it's 5.50am now. I need to go to bed. Will be blogging soon if I manage to steal time from my busy schedule. See ya :).

Gong Hei Fatt Choi !

The gathering, the food, the ang pau, the joy and laughter. I just love Chinese New Year.

I've been strict on my diet and had been training for runs, it's about time to rest and fatten up! Ba Kua pleaseeeeeeee hehe.

Had reunion dinner with the Lums at OUG, and went to Teluk Intan on the first day of Chinese New Year.

The gathering at Teluk Intan's pretty epic, consists of my grandparents, mum have a total of 9 siblings - all married, and all have at average of 3 to 4 kids. You do the math. My Ah Kong and Ah Ma are proud grandparents of 28 grandchildren.

With the cuties, Sze Chin, Rou Xi and Foong . Who demands to get Superman, Spiderman treatment from me without fail :). Except for Foong I can barely carry her already haha. :p


It's been blazing hot lately eh? Ideal to go for a dip in the pool ;).

Mata lalat haha .


The 6 of us, Lums :).

Big, happy family :).


1 missing, so 27 cousins :D! Age ranges from 3 months old to 28 years old :).

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Tomorrow bai lin with Ser Siang, Khy Li and Wei Guan ;D!

Kar May's CNY Open House

As we've noticed, there has been a drastic reduction in the number of open house over the years, don't you think so?

Largely due to the economy meltdown, but fear not, we still have open houses around. If not, even simple gathering at each other's houses would be a treat, wouldn't it?

I personally enjoy open houses. Kar May's open house was definitely one I look forward to.

Plus, when we ex-Cengal students meet up, I'm always in a jovial mood, and so is everyone.

Good food, hospitality, good company, ang pau. How can we not like such open houses :D? Let's urge for more of such gathering!

Miss my ex classmates, but one ex classmates of mine who couldn't help holding himself back from expressing how much he miss us by showing physical affection was..

Who else but Wei Kit :P.
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We have more in store!

Ethan pressing down hard on the hotspot.

Happy belated birthday Chiaw Yee!

Wei Kit, myself and Kar May, who was running all over the place throughout the whole night :p.

That's one happy chinese new year for you!

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Congrats to Tzia Tzia for being Nuffnang's February 2009's featured blogger!

Gong Hei Fatt Choi!

Jogging at Kampar is awesome. It is distinctively different compared to the places back at home. The following are shots taken when I went jogging.

Mining lake.

Nice going for that tyre. When you drive here, be vary of Bumps 'n' Dungs.


KTM train track.

Pui Yee the cili padi and I.

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Pui Foong's Chocolate Cornflakes.

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Then it was Chinese New Year.
Of gathering with family and friends, red packets, pineapple tarts, fried nga ku, gambling, and over-eating.

I returned to my mum's hometown, Teluk Intan.

My uncle and aunt's guests.

My grandparents has a total of 9 children all married with 9 other spouses, and almost 30 grandchildren. Can you imagine the crowd under 1 roof? :P.

Since there are so many of us, of course we have a few people who celebrates birthday together. What a mass gathering it was. Too bad I do not have the group picture, it's in the other camera.

& the grandparents still feeling the love.

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Trip to Sungai Tiang, a fisherman village

The 'jetty'

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& spent my whole day yesterday at my girlfriend's place. I had lunch there, chat with everyone, played Dota with her brother, & dinner. After that she came over to my place instead.

It was the first time my mum meet Jac, so Pui Foong described the situation is like 'First Day of School'. Hahaha. I can tell my mum couldn't stop scanning Jac, haha.

Somehow the feedbacks from my parents were extremely, positive :).

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Ah, got to go!
Heading to Kar May's Chinese New Year gathering :).