Chinese New Year!

Haven't posted anything much for the past two weeks as i wanted to dedicate one whole post to the chinese new year. I am pretty glad that this year's chinese new year day one falls on valentines day so i will not have to suffer the feeling of watching lovey dovey couples on the street. In fact, i did not even realised that its valentines day on the day itself because the atmosphere was overrun by the chinese new year spirit. We had a little different reunion dinner this year. Every year it used to be teppanyaki + steamboat but this year we had only steamboat with takeout from the Mouth Kitchen. It was quite a spread and mummy made a healthy and yummy yu sheng for us to kickstart the new lunar new year.

Family portrait on day one.

From day minus one till day five, i have been gambling almost every night (most nights till 5am in the morning). I became so sick of gambling by the next week and the only reason why i did not stop is because i have been winning..unexpectedly. In total i have won near $170 in the two weeks of gambling. On day six, we were invited to a company gathering by josh. It was fine dining at his secondary school's friend's studio. The food was impeccable. Great food with good wine. We were invited to learn how to cook by his friend Mervyn but most were more interested in gambling instead. I was eager to learn something so i can whip up something nice in future, thus i became Mervyn's temporary assistant that day with shuying. :)) I learnt how to make chawamushi and black sesame pudding. Some pictures of the food we had :))






Went down to Echo music the following monday with my band members yiffy and yizzie to pay our lesson fees. Both of them collected their new acoustic guitar on the day itself except me. I wanted to avoid the trouble of bringing it home and back for the first lesson. I picked a reddish wood colour for my guitar. I was pretty excited and am looking forward to it. ahhh always good to have something to look forward to after the exams. I am going to make a video of myself playing with it in future ;p

Its yuan xiao jie today. The end of the chinese new year celebrations. We had a yu sheng to mark the start of the celebrations. Of course we must have another one to end it as well. Mummy made a super healthy and unusual yu sheng made out of vegetables, cucumbers, strawberries and some other ingredients which i cannot make out of. Its more like a salad, but it taste nice nonetheless. I am glad ah ma is ok now and is able to celebrate this occasion with us. I hope she will stay healthy from now on~ alright enough of posting for the day..its back to FULL TIME studying from tomorrow on wards!! i have been guilty of not studying at all for the past two weeks. Its time for hell month to begin...i am soooo not looking forward to it...