Althou its 1 day late, but nevertheless, i would like to wish everybody "Happy New Year".
The continuation of my CNY holiday...
3rd day of CNY :
I spent my day at home as mum said that it was a bad day to visit relatives and also friends. This is because on this day , its known as " chek hau"(cantonese) where if you visit others, you and that person will keep arguing all year round.
4th day of CNY :
Spent most day at grandma`s house and as night falls, we went to downtown for CNY`s open house at Campbell Street, Penang.
So many people..wana walk also very hard..
Open house means got free food and drinks....
Some of the CNY`s tit bits and kuih...
Got fried rice and bee hoon
Some of the very old old type of flyers..According to my parents, those are the cinema listings on show for the people around in the 70s. its like we looked up on the newspaper for movies and last time, they used to distribute the flyer with sypnosis. So cool...
Ancient type of radio and "CD player" Hehe
Trishaw man and passanger...Look at those details...
Paper cutting using red packets...
Paper lanterns...
The food...
and more food....
Soup...
Some part of the mess that we made...CNY celebration begin on the 1st day of CNY :
It was a kinda boring day for me. Did nothing except sending mum from temple to another to pray. Then my uncles came over to our house to "pai nian".
Fast forward to the 2nd day of CNY :
Its the day where chinese said "kai nian" (open year) where wedded daughter return home to "pai nian". So, early morning, we get ready to went back to grandma`s house and we ate lunch there. Then, mum and dad fetch grandma to relatives` house and i stayed back to help around in the house.
Then, at night, we went to another "belated reunion dinner" with my paternal family as most of my aunts from KL, Japan as well as Singapore came back. Thus, its sorta family reunion or gathering.
Although we were having dinner at a hotel restaurant, but the service was like a fast food chain. Reason : the hotel restaurant was fully booked and by a certain time, the table that one occupied will need to past to the next customers. *sweat* The food that we`re having :
1st dish: Lou Sang at 19:07 pm
2nd dish : Shark fin soup (but i think its more of "fan si" ) at 19:17 pm
3rd dish : Rebus (boiled?) prawns at 19:20 pm
4th dish : "Hou Si Fatt Choy" (oyster mushroom etc) at 19:30 pm
5th dish: Fish at 19:36 pm
6th dish : Glutinious rice at 19:40 pm
7th dish : Honeydew sago at 19:59pm
8th dish : Fried "nian gao" at 20:03 pm
Basically, we sapu-ed the whole dinner within 1 hour. Superfast!! However, the time for the adults was not enough. So they decided to go to the hotel where my aunts` staying to continue their "grandma"`s story until 11 ++ pm.
My CNY celebration began 2days earlier than usual. This is because I had my earlier reunion dinner with my maternal family at my 2nd aunt`s place on the 24th of January which is the 29th lunar calendar.
Had the usual traditional must have dishes like the prawns, chicken, lobak, lotsa veges, mushroom, fishes, soup and rice. Haha..!!!
My grandma is a rather tradition kinda lady as u can see in the picture that we must have our rice in a bowl rather on the plate.
Parts of the dishes
Rice in bowl
Woofy and Meowy would like to wish all the readers a very happy and prosperous Lunar New Year!!! May the year of the Ox brings you & your family lots of luck, wealth in abundance and never ending happiness !!!!
Hahahaha...just came back from Bosco Wong`s small singing and autograph signing session...
Managed to shake hand with him as well...Awwww...I Love BOSCO!!!!!
He`s so cute and handsome...Update with picture soon...
And will go Queensbay tml for countdown and see Bosco again...hahaha..
Till then, we would like to wish all our readers from our blog a very HAPPY NEW YEAR...May you all have a blessed year ahead and be happy always...!!!!
To all the readers of this humble blog of ours,
Far view of the Guan Yin Temple.
The front door of the temple.
The front side of the temple.
A closer view to the Guan Yin Statue.
Wishing tree - here you can write down your wishes and tie to the tree.
The 2 guardians for Guan Yin.
The pillar of the huge temple. No less than 60 feet high. And the carvings are so nice!
The cable car station.
Cutie mice.. Hehe..
Stay tuned for part 2, more photos to come! Keke...
We had a rather eventful 3days staring from the 14th of Febrauary to 16th of February.
Let us start from the 1st day of the 3days events. As you all know, on the 14th of February is the Valentine`s Day but this year, we chose not to celebrate it cuz for some reasons la. Hehe but the main reason was on that day itself was the Chinese mainly Hokkien people praying the Gof of heaven of known as The Jade Emperor (Tian Gong). It also marked the actual day for the Hokkien people to celebrate their New Year. Some culture lo. =)
Our journey started at ard 9 ish pm.....its hard to look for a parking space unless you wanted to pay RM5 to secure a parking space lor....
Anyway, we manage to look for a parking space which was quite far from our destination and will needed some walking to get there.
This is the main gate to the temple.
And along the roadside to the temple which was located at the peak of the slope, there was this huge groups of beggars asking and waiting for "donation" from the public.
Half way to the temple. Almost there !!!! After some climbing, legs also started to pain d....o.O
Aaaaahhhhh....the final gate to the temple. We`re there !!!!
Before we proceed to the temple to pray, this is the scenery from the peak of the slope... Took some time to reached to the top....
Then, we went to pray but din take any pictures inside...=P
After spending some time (i think ard 2hour ++) inside the temple, we leave the place to cure our grumbling tummy cuz we havent had our dinner !!!
And on our way down from the temple, we spotted this lonely turtle....
With this, we ended our 1 day event and 2 more to go....Stay tune....!!! =)
Dear everyone,
According to the Chinese lunar calendar (1st moon of the 7th day), today is 人日 aka human day which also meant as everybody`s birthday. Thus, we at this blog, would like to wish You and You and You and whoever that are reading this blog a very Happy Birthday. =)
Today is the day before Chinese people big day as today is Chinese New Year Eve is called Chu-Xi (haha, duno how to put in chinese character).
Anyway, mostly all the Chinese will be having their reunion dinner with family members and usher the new moon day which is the Chinese New Year Day. Will be a very happy moment where everyone will be present for the event. Members from oversea or other state will be back to their hometown.
I was surfing for the new year eve and found this website. I found it kind of interesting and wated to share with you all. Here`s the link.
Me and my family including BoBo wanted to wish all this blog readers :
Wow..time really goes so fast and without realizing it, today is the last day of 2007.
Seems like we just ushered the 2007 new year and now we`re going to celebrate the new year of 2008...
In this year, I`ve done alot of good and also bad things. Some happy and also sad moments. And of course, towards the end of the year, my days is not a good 1. People come and people go. Need to learn to let go sometimes. Still, I miss my grandpa so so so much..=( New year will never be the same anymore.
Anyway, this year is my 1st time sitting at the grandstand watching F1 live. So cool. Will definitely buy that seat again. =P
And, am i going to end this post for the year by :
~~~ I heard that petrol price going to increase by RM0.20. ~~~ How true is that, i dunno...but my mum and Woofy went to pump petrol d... Kekeke...Kiasuism strikes again..=P
Going anywhere to celebrate? We`re going to watch the fireworks tonight...=)
Yesterday was the Loy Krathong Festival. Its a festival that was widely celebrated throughout Thailand. It is held on the full moon of the 12th month in the traditional Thai Lunar Calendar, in the western calendar this usually falls into Novermber. “Loi” means “to float”. “Krathong” is a raft about a handspan in diameter traditionally made from a section of banana tree trunk , decorated with elaborately-folded banana leaves, flowers, candles, incense sticks etc. During the night of the full moon, many people will release a small raft like this on a river.
We went to the Wat Buppharam in Perak Road to celebrate the fastival and to join in the crowd. Upon arrival at around 8pm, we saw a few stalls selling those "Krathong". There are variety of shapes and sizes to choose from and style too. Apparently, the new style of "Krathong" has evolved from the traditional tree trunk based to Styrofoam based. So, it looked more plastic-ky than the traditional 1.For a small " Krathong" , it cost for RM 10 and the big 1 ranged from RM 20 to RM30.
The varieties of "Krathong" being sell. From Styrofoam to the traditional banana trunk type.
There are a few events that going on at that moment. Some of them are, the singing stage and another part of the temple, there got a few people dancing. Guess not so appropriate. Hehe.
Singing stage.
A guy-girl dancing away ala Thai.
The praying altar
People mountain people sea inside the temple waiting for the chanting process.
Our "Krathong".
Some of the "Krathong" inside the temple. If you buy the "Krathong" inside the temple, each 1 cost RM15. 
Lighting up the parade car`s candle. Marking its time to start the parade to Gurney.
Some of the parade cars. 
