Long post ahead...

I haven't been blogging for a while... So much photos accumulated, oh no...

Warning: Long Post Ahead...

Well, Always start your days with blue skies and cotton clouds.

Let's see, first up we have Chinese New Year...

My mum, dad, grandma and two sisters with me. This was the serious shot, the other one I dun think I want to put it here.

Celebrations starts with my father's side, gathering upstairs. And since it's just upstairs, we can wear slippers up, convenient...

Reunion lunch gatherings are always filled with so much people. I have a rather closely knitted big family.

We the young ones...

And so that was morning at my dad's side. Then afternoon we went next door to my mum's side visitation.

My uncle and aunt came back from Hawaii to celebrate with us this year.

Lau Ah... This year I tossed 6 times in total... Must be a prosperous year ahead of me.

Messing up the table is always part of my sisters' plan. Look what they did to the table...

I was quite amazed with this. Fried Kiwis. Didn't knew they had these, thought there was only dried mango and apricots. Anyway, it tastes like dried mangoes, just with a zest of kiwi flavor.

Managed to meet my granduncle and grandaunt from my mum's side. Though they are not exactly on good terms with my grandma and my mum and aunts and uncles, they are still nice to us. Grew up with them next door, and we always climbed the fence and shouted to them for lollipops and yakult, haha...

And Chinese New Year Day 2... Yes, all those before was just in 1 day...

This curious and playful hummingbird flew and was swinging on the strings hung outside my living room. According to my dad, it always flies around here and into our houses, looking for something interesting.

And so, lunch was over at our side on CNY day 2.

After the visitation at my house, we kids went out, haha... Met up with Dawn, her sisters, Claire and Ariel, Zhi Xiong and Yvonne, to hang out and chill. Wanted to watch movie at first, but decided to go have ice cream at Changi Airport instead at Swensons.

Sisters unite...

All anticipating to play Saboteur and have Swenson's Earthquake.

And since we all parked at T3, we walked over to T2 to have Swenson's cos the one at T3 closed earlier. The travellators above the MRT station.

T3 this way please. The lights on the floor makes it looks like some disco or club.

Well, back to T3 again... So much space here.

And so on CNY Day 3, we went to Ps William's house to visit in the morning. After that, we wanted to go to Dennis and Dellia's place to visit, but forgotten that Dennis was still at reservist, so went to Pasir Ris area for lunch instead. Anyway, we made a detour over to the pet farm at Pasir Ris before lunch.

How much is that doggy at the window? Woof Woof...

When the German Shepard came out, all of us got a shock. It was quite tame though.

Beagles... Going at $499, muahaha... Zhi Xiong liked this one, but both me and Dawn thought that it looked silly, cos it had a rather big head. Very "gong gong" le... We felt the chocolate colored one below is more adorable.

And after lunch, we didn't have anywhere to go, so went back first before going to Aileen's place at night for another CNY celebration. Welcome back YY!!!

YY is back, haha.. With Ingrid, Vivien and Jun Liang in Aileen's kitchen...

Colin and Aileen with the dishes...

Alvin and Viv's bro setting up the Xbox 360 for Guitar Heroes III.

Happy Birthday to Ingrid, surprise...

Got a little bo liao, so started to play with my camera.
Chicago...

Then on Sunday after service, CNY day 4, we guys went to Spageddies at Paragon for late lunch or dinner.

I love their Fish and Chicken Combo...

Yvonne had Seafood Pasta.

Jun Liang had er.... I dunno what is that, but sure looks good. I think it is Spaghetti Ham & Mushroom.

Ham Heaven
Shot by Junster

Lennel had the Crayfish & Tenderloin Combo, his usual favorite. There's little wonder why.

Tomatoes anyone?

And so that was CNY madness. Coming out of it, I was struck with awe while consolidating my ang pows, that my family has been very blessed this past year. So I packed the ang pow money back to my parents, one for mum and one for dad.

So next up is Valentine's Day. The Tuesday before, I went to Far East Flora along Thomson Road with my two sisters and Zhi Xiong. Wanted to get flowers for the girls on Thursday, but after much thought and discussion, I didn't get them. Instead, I took photos of them, haha... Flowers

Cute Cactus, very brightly colored.

Baby's Breath

Don't cramp my style

Innocence and Purity

Passionate and Fun loving.

Pineapple at $1.00. The mini kinds.

Majestic and Creepy Door behind Far East Flora where Zhi Xiong parked his car. Houses here are all very big and expensively decorated.

And so, came Thursday, Valentine's Day. I always find it overrated and too commercialized. Everywhere, people are taking advantage of this one day to push prices up up up... So we (Dawn, Jolene, Steph, Yvonne, Wanlin, Shunyi, Zhi Xiong and me) went to Werner's Oven for dinner. We made reservations at the start of the month, but think they screwed that up, so we had to wait.

Happy V-Day to all... I only noticed that I didn't take any photos of myself the whole day, haha...

Happy, Merry Merry...

Someone received 12 roses delivered to her office, Aw....
(To the sender of the flowers, if you happen to read this, good job.)

Look!!! They have a cute chicken ornament at their bakery, haha...
Ber Kop...

Flowers from Zhi Xiong to all...

See how happy Steph is, haha....

I have no idea why were they frowning, but don't you think this shot is very funny, haha... I think it was partly because they took a very long time to bring us the menu, a very long time to serve us drinks, a long time to bring out the food. We were all starving by the time we started eating.

Flower Girls

We got so bored waiting that we started playing pick-up sticks.

Beer... Haha...

Seafood Pasta for Yvonne...

Wanlin's happy with the food. Dunno what's it called, some German name I think. It's chicken with potatoes and salad to me.

More German Food. Dawn had Beef with Sour kraut and potatoes.

Drinking their wedding drink already, haha...
At this point of time, my camera battery died. Even though it was being dropped earlier on, I'm very pleased with it cos besides a little scratch and a small dent, the camera still works as per normal, and the lens wasn't event spoilt. The next few shots were taken on Dawn's canon, that's why I didn't sign on it. And also I'm not used to using another camera, so some shots turned up blurry. Too used to my cam already, haha...

Zhi Xiong had Cheese sausage. Sorry, but this shot made the food look like crap, literally. Plus the mustard sauce, haha...

I already started with mine before taking the photo. Farmer's Sausage with Potato Salad and Sour Kraut.

Jo and Steph had Pork Knuckles, and of course, Jo had to change a side to potato wedges. It was huge, but good.

So after dinner we wanted dessert, so we walked down to the Cheesecake Shop which was closed. Wanlin and Shunyi is really funny when they walk together. Very cute couple, haha...

A surprise summon on one of the cars parked nearby. A scarily sweet idea.
In the end we ended up at this coffee place to have cakes and another few rounds of Saboteur(yes, Saboteur again).

Anyway, I recognize that I'm a Food Junkie. Just topped up my drawer at work with supplies.

"Lai ah, Lai ah... Mamak Stall open liao..."

Follow the white rabbit.

So on Saturday I was at Changi, pass to Dennis somethings, then saw the Airshow rehearsals. Black Knights flying really low in their planes over Changi Village (Thank God there weren't much 'ah guas' around then ).

Zooming by in formation.

This one single crazy pilot flew straight up, did a few acrobatic acts with the plane, and flew all over with such freedom. If it was me, I would have puked all over the cockpit already.

Wa....

Oooo...

And of course, natural fliers were all over.
Then after the planes stopped flying, I was at the bus stop waiting for the bus to go home, when I saw a few cockatoos in the trees, so went over to take photos. Had to climb this old HDB styled chalet to the 4th level to take the photos.

They have long and creepy corridors.

This way please...

These birds were squawking and squawking.. I think they have a nest there.

Another one on the other tree.

And so, it's Sunday again, and this Sunday we went to catch "P.S. I Love You" after service. Good show, just that we had to watch from the front 3rd row, haha...

I like romance movies, die la... I'm a big softy liao... Haha...

So after the movie we went to Starbucks to have a drink. Yes, a drink each. Then I asked for ice water, the guy was good enough to give it in mugs, thus explaining the many mugs on our small table.

Yuki and Dawn. Looks like they are in a cold country.

Me, Xiong and Yvonne. Ice Mocha with whipped cream. Mmm...
Finally I reached the last photo, haha... This post took me 1 whole day, starting from yesterday night, ah.... Ok, back to work... Muahaha...