i know i'm a bit late but it's better late than never :)

here's how we spent our CNY together this year

the very awesome rachel invited us to her house again.

good food + gambling session + free angpow 

what's there not to like about CNY with the pals :) 

FIRST STOP : COLD STORAGE. 

love grocery shopping although i can't cook. 

we took so much ingredients for our barbeque & steamboat session. 

luv the bacon so much even though it's so fatterning :( 

my dearest darach needs to put on weight..

the girls got promoting van houten raisin chocolates

 while the boys were hard at work :) 

loved this garlic bread with smoked salmon topping :)

lovingly prepared by rachel's dad. 

& the laoban styled bean curd :)

we were so shocked when jason came with a big bag of bean curd from old airport road. 

i have been wanting to try LaoBan's beancurd but the queue is insanely long

what makes it worse is that they only sell them at certain timings and i stay in the west :(

apparently this stall's standard is the closest to LaoBan's . 

i was so happy having satisfied my soya fix. thank you jason !! 

& what's CNY without gambling ?

everyone lost money except irene jun and I :)

aiai was the biggest winner walking away with 11 bucks. 

i won around 8 bucks but poor lyla lost her angpow money from mama :(

thank god we played it small by 50 cents bet. 

 jun had to leave for family dinner so he couldn't join us for our bbq :(

went busy snapping pictures with him before he left . 

& he's still single and readily available as of now... 

& the feasting begins :)

my very first and only steamboat and bbq for CNY. 

if only my family's a tad more spontaneous ..

but it's a blessing in disguise because no steamboat + bbq = no weight gain. 

 

lylayang with her signature pose. 

goofed around with the camera after we had our stomachs filled :)

love this particular spot of rach's crib because it's so comfy 

a picture with the very awesome host :)

wished i had all the time in the world to spend more time with my friends
i had to leave earlier that day because it was grace's 21st at regent hotel.
missed feli jess and vannie who came later because they had lessons before that .
hate to miss out in all the fun boohoo .

can't wait for all the 21st celebrations and gatherings in two weeks time
the only time we get an excuse to cast exam preperations aside.
apart from 21st celebrations, i'm planning a birthday surprise for a speical someone
i'm crossing my fingers that the birthday surprise will be a success.
it's my dear friend's 21st and i really want to make it special for her <3

till then xoxo

the season of feasting & feasting & feasting.

before i move on to blog about my CNY details , let me do a birthday shoutout

happy birthday jamie wong xue mei <3

hope you had a good one.

that's birthday girl sitting on my lap + yixuan & bf + kianyong and kun ! 

marina mandarin suite :) 

never knew it was just next to marina square. -.- 

sohmin :) thanks to her i had a good laugh that night. 

kunkun who was so shagged but accommodating that night :)

met up with his platoon mates and kayaking pals from morning to evening

rushed over to apple bees for his mom's birthday dinner with the family 

& then we rushed to jamie's birthday 

& while i made my way home in jamie's parents' car , he headed to zouk for his birthday celebration

made to drink a whole lot of alcohol and got all wasted that night 

can't wait till you're legal and we'll be of the same age!! 

daphne and sohmin :) 

 CHINESE NEW YEAR 2012 . 

CNY feels nothing like christmas but i wouldn't complain about having holidays :)

i feel like school has barely started but we're left with one last marketing lecture already. 

i can't wait to graduate and get all the papers over and done with !! 

can't wait to get married and start giving red packets too :p

OFTD :) 

didn't take out the sticker on my camera screen -.-

that's very rare peeks of my mom and brother . 

my brother hates taking pictures but i managed to psycho him that day 

i didn't actually ask him but i just pull him in for a picture when he refused :) 

my fifth aunt and her kids :)

the nicest and kindest aunt in the family. 

i dont mean like the rest are evil witches but my fifth aunt is so god like .

it's amazing how we actually took a picture this year. 

i was never really close to my cousins. 

i mean sure , we used to play together (and quarrel)

as we grow older , we just stopped playing ( i mean like duh ) and eventually stopped talking

glad that we managed to re-connect this year :) 

my baby niece all grown up :"( 

#fml she's already secondary one. 

i used to feed her milk and wipe her pee on the floor :(:( 

the first gambling session in 5 years ?

thanked god i made my aunt dig the cards or it would have been so boring

started with fifty cents and ended up with a red note. 

everyone won some money except my poor (fifth) aunt who's the banker ~

the two cousins whom i grew up with . 

heading for a movie at ang mo kio hub :) 

my very nice fifth aunt treated us to movie even though she lost a bit of money 

:'( god bless nice peeps who give incessantly please !!

and my very nice cousin who offered to pay. 

had a good laugh with #jackandjillmovie 

CNY DAY TWO 

the oh sisters came over to bainian in the morning :) 

had a round of saboteur (which i'm itching to play now) before i head over to bainian.

luv this picture of us :) 

here's lady in red sitting on a red carpet with the red elmo . 

she should totally try her luck at the casino.. 

so sonia's dad called her a zhubajie because she heads to sleep after meals 

& i was in my usual cheeky mood 

rebe : sonia , help me to take pictures with sonia-s

before that i was talking to the pigs, addressing them as sonia. 

& then she dissed at me and called me an idiot lol. 

here's kun who bai nian over the window screen ?!

should have told mama to dock your angpow money :P

both of us playing with ricoh. 

& it's kun's momma's birthday too. 

happy birthday auntie maysin <3

thank you for always preparing awesome food for me ! 

& then we ended off the day with a bad news

kunkun misplaced his army card..

i'm hoping that he finds it in his bunk tomorrow

please pray that he will not kena extra duties / confinement / fine ..

sucky life of an army boy :( 

and oh oh , finally a post without lylayang as a hashtag :p