CNY updates

First day and second day of CNY, I visited a few people with my family. My grandma for the reunion lunches. Hee. Hock Thiam. My aunt. Din take picture in HT's and Hee's. Only took some in my grandma's and aunt's.

Make you hungry with this picture first. Ngiak ngiak.




My new cousin (less than 2 years old). Looks like an adult. She has a very serious looking face.


My nephew (3 years old plus). Very cute la him.


Pinky


Caught candid by bro, was day-dreaming.


Cousin (previous baby cousin's half sister). Pretty hor. Looks like 杨丞琳 (Yang Cheng-Lin) with the fringe.


Grab Pinky tight to take picture with her. 我就是不要让你下去.. hehe..
The fist was for my bro.. dun remember what he said liao

Second day CNY night, Cheng Rui called up and asked if I wanna join bainian the next day. Why not? Was looking forward to get more Angpows and meet some friends whom I haven't met since last CNY. Went to bainian with CR, Hazel, HT, Sheng Keng, Ching Qing, June Fei and Teck Chong the next day. We took a big group photo at Juliana's home. Wow. It's been a year. Time passes really fast. (the group picture is not ready yet also. Din bring camera with me. Sweat...)

So, during this CNY my camera only took some picture of few monkeys jumping around behind my house and a huge group of bees 'attacking' my mum's plant. lol..

Can see or not? So many bees. Scary... When I was taking this picture there are a few standing on my hand. Eww! If it's not for taking the picture I already ran away.

Continue with the story first. So third day of CNY I went to bainian with the bunch of hometown friends. When there's CR, there's gambling. We played blackjack. I lost RM2 at Ju's and CR's house. =( And had a CNY lunch with the bunch. Almost whole day gone. We had some good long chat for the whole afternoon at HT's house. With CQ, HT, JF, TC, CK. 2 girls and 4 guys, an unlimited conversation from applying Singtel to renting house to credit cards to yearly bonus to Uncle Lim to.. eventually we got lost in the conversations. lol...

Here are the group pictures (from HT)! Tada!

(Still waiting for Hazel's and CR's one)

Fourth day of CNY, went yamcha with Yeow Siang and HT. Had a really fun time chatting with them. =) Enjoyed HT's stories. lol. Too bad it was late. Otherwise I will continue chatting with them despite being chased out from KFC. lol.

Yeow Siang asked me why I mostly hang out with guy friends. Even CNY bainian also mostly are guys. I dunno la. I just find guys are good to talk to. haha. And maybe because during my secondary school time I 'break up' with my girl friend. After that I dun pour my heart out to girls already. Now I'm better a bit. I have my girls with me now. Still tagging with them. =) Hope we'll be like this forever. =)

Cant wait for this Saturday's gathering with the girls. More photos coming up soon =) Cuz we like to camwhore. =P

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Mum's cookies


Rat shaped cheesy pineapple tart. I think the taste is a bit too new for me =P But it's a cool idea. My mum's own recipe =)



These two pictures of cookies were pre-baked. Forgot to take the picture again after baked.

Mum came up with a funny aging theory: As we get older, we have wrinkles and weak eyesight. These two phenomenon come together because when we have weak eyesight we cant see our wrinkles and so we still see our pretty self in the mirror. lol

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Grandma fell down in the kitchen yesterday when preparing lunch for the second day of Chinese New Year. Her knees had been very weak lately and she complained knee pain every step she took. She's 80 this year. Aging is expected. Yesterday the floor was wet and her knees had no energy to prevent herself from falling (my grandma was very strong last time. She even climbed the roof to fix TV antenna few years ago).

The thing I like about my grandma is that even after she fell down, she still can laugh about it when everyone around her was so worried. She's very optimistic. =) Whenever I think of the witty smile on her face when she told me quietly that she fell down in the kitchen just now, I could not help but think how can she be so calm after the incident that shows her that she might no longer walk in the future? And after telling me about the fall, she put her index finger to her mouth asking me to keep this a secret, mouthing Shhh to me. (secret no more that it's revealed here =P Nah.. She din know my mum already tell my aunts about it ) She's so cute and child-like. =P

Trying to be nice to everyone, grandma is a saint. Although many times grandma gave too much financial support to my gambler uncle and she sometimes act like a kid, grandma worth my respect =) She's just trying to be a good mum, but in a wrong way. She's not educated, it's understandable.

She attracted me in some way. She can make people laugh when she says something too naive or when she's blur. hehe.. And she will laugh with us when she realized she created a joke. One example is when she told dad happily that she climbed the roof to fix the antenna and got scolded by dad, she was happily laughing at her brave act. Like a kid.

In general, she's a witty, naive and humorous grandma.

Love her =)

Happy Chinese New Year

It's first day of Chinese New Year today! Gong Hey Fatt Choy! (I need that, very moneyless now)

What I'm going to do today is to collect AngPows. lol. After breakfast I'm going over to grandma's place with my family, have lunch and collect AngPows. Then visit my aunt's house to collect AngPow also. hehe.. Hopefully in the afternoon I can get home and have a good nap =P. And watch some CNY movies while munching on the cookies and chocolates.

Yesterday was very tiring. Had some last minute spring cleaning. We tried to clean everything in one day.

We went to grandma's house for a family reunion lunch. Played with pinky, helped grandma prepare lunch. Somemore have to squeeze here and there in the house like I was in a Pasar Malam because everyone is in the house (almost everyone la). So I was already tired after the lunch. lol.. Then came back and started changing curtains, wiped clean the couch, washed the stairs, mopped the floor and tidied up everything especially in the living room.

It was tiring.


p/s: Finally there's babies to play with during CNY d. lol. She's my dad's bro's daughter. Just 2 years old. Very chubby. Dunno why she likes to scream for no apparent reason. lol.

I'm going home, to the place where I belong

At my aunt's house now. These two days are quite busy. Summore got nothing much to talk about. That's why din blog for 2 days. hehe..

Today went to Time Square and Low Yat with JC and didi. Saw a very huge Lion Dance Lion deco at the center of the mall. It's really cool. I took the picture with my handphone. But just realised that I din bring the cable with me. I left it at USJ. Same thing to my camera cable too. Kekdao... Which means every photo I take before and during the CNY can only be uploaded after CNY.

But I think nothing much to upload also la. Coz my hometown (Kota Tinggi) is a Malay place coz it's dominated by Malays. So during CNY the town won't be very happening one la. So actually really nothing (relating to CNY) to take picture.

What I'm looking forward towards this holiday is that finally I can be home for after 5 months. And I miss the family moment (with complete family members-mama, papa and didi) which I had long missed. And I miss pinky! And grandma! Morrie is right. When Mitch asked him what he would do if he has 24 healthy hours to live. Morrie said he would eat a good breakfast, watch the birds and trees outside his house, meet up with some close friends and talk a while.. dun remember what he wanted to do after that.. then at night he will just go to sleep in his own bed. So, what he wanted was a simple life just like what he had when he was healthy.

So, I feel the same now. What I really missed after working in KL is that serene lifestyle in my small hometown and some warm moments with my family back when I was waiting for job offer at hometown. In the morning, I wake up and go for breakfast with parents. Then go to the market with mum. Then visit grandma with parents and had some talk with her or watch tv at her place =P. At her house I get to play with Pinky or bathe Pinky. Then get home and prepare lunch with mum. Then have lunch and have a girl talk with mum. Then online a bit or bake some cakes. Then have dinner (sometimes take nap and oversleep and din get to help out with the dinner preparation.. hehe). Then watch tv or help parents out with tuition and played with the kids there.. (hehe... miss the kids already). Then online a bit to chat with Heng. Then do yoga with mum. Then sleep.

Ahhh... Heavenly. =)

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As I said in the chat box, swimming instructor is cool. When I woke up today I felt shoulder and arm pain but no leg pain. So I was very happy that at least my leg is cool. I thought to myself that my legs can finally tahan lasak already. I'm ok with arm pain though coz I really want to shape my arm a bit. I duwan flabby arms, I want some muscles.

But after went out with JC and didi, my legs started to feel pain. And the more I walk, the more pain my legs are. =( Not tahan lasak at all. Summore tomorrow I have to drive back hometown. Now that I got leg sore and bro is still recovering from his injury. Although the injury is quite minor, he said he'd feel his knee skin tensed up when he bend his leg.

So, to my stupid legs: Please recover fast! I'm gonna der-rive tomorrow!

keke.. happy homecoming =P

Bronze Medallion here I come!

Yeay!

Yeay! Yeay! Yeay!


Ok. I should explain these screaming =P.

Finally, after 2-3 years of dreaming, I've got the chance to learn life saving already! It's tomorrow! Yes! T-o-m-o-r-r-o-w. Tomorrow! Bronze Medallion, here I come!

I didn't state this in my previous post on my day dream post coz I got too many dreams suddenly it hid at the very behind of my brain =P. I remember 2-3 years ago when I was learning swimming in Sunway Monash Condo Hostel, I've been admiring the beautiful postures of the girls jumping into the water and dragging a person out from the middle of the pool. How cool can that be? So, I told myself I'm gonna learn finish swimming and then brush up my swimming skills until I'm confident with it. Then, I'll take up life saving course.

But, as usual, I chickened out.

As usual.

Swimming was never on my top 10 interests list before 2005 (or was it 2006?). I remember in a class tutorial when Yun Ying asked around for people who is interested to go for a swimming lesson with her and Yi Siu asked around for people to join her Wushu class. Despite the love for wushu since Form 2, I went to swimming lesson with Yun Ying.

Way before YY asked me, I thought to myself that since I already know breast stroke (from informal learning since young), swimming lessons are so unnecessary. Because since I can learn breast stroke without an instructor I can learn other styles myself as well. So when I got the idea of learning myself, I tried to learn free style from observing how people swim free style at the pool. But, I couldn't get it right and got very dizzy after turning my head to left and right. That's when I started to think of taking up a swimming lesson. Just to learn free style =P.


Free styles



After attended first few lessons, I was so satisfied with myself coz I finally know how to swim free style. Then only I know free style no need to turn the head to left and right. lol. But I think my left hand is a bit cacat with my posture. I cannot 'insert' my hand into the water properly. Always feel awkward when I dive my hand into the water =P

Breast strokes


Before the lessons, I didn't know breast stroke is supposed to be this aggressive. And being this aggressive is beautiful. =)

From the lessons not only I learned free styles but also improved my breast stroke. Until then only I know the correct breast stroke looks so different from the normal one you see in the pool. You're supposed to carry your shoulder and chest higher than water level when you come out from water and then thump your head into the water afterwards. But sometimes no energy to push myself out of water so much la. When I got not enough energy to push myself out I'll just swim like how people normally swim. hehe..


Backstroke and Butterfly


Backstroke


Butterfly. The most beautiful of all swimming styles.

And I got to learn backstroke and butterfly too but seldom swim these two styles. When I swim backstroke I always swim senget line one because lack of practice. And the water always covers my face when I swim backstroke. So, I always got choked by the water.

I like to watch guys swim butterfly style because normally those who swim butterfly in public are good in this style. I can't swim beautiful butterfly. When I swim butterfly I will look like I'm drowning. lol. I think it's either because my legs are not very strong or posture is wrong. So my kicks can't really send me up back to the air, that's why looks like drowning.

Oh yea. This lead me to one question. Without using hands to paddle and with my legs kicking up and down like free style I tend to swim downwards. What's wrong ah? Is it because my legs are too weak (need more practice) or my body posture is wrong or my kicking posture is wrong? Any idea? I don't find breast stroke kick a problem though. (Maybe I should ask my instructor tomorrow =P)


Ok. Wish me luck with my first day lesson tomorrow. Hope can really pass the test and get the cert la.. Crossing fingers. If I pass the test, this will be my another co-curriculum achievement (after my sign language class) in my life =)


P/s: I better keep practice to get back my stamina. **I can't swim too long without stopping, can die la.. can out of breath**

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Going back with my bro for CNY. So happy =D

I miss home, miss my mama papa, miss my didi. The last time I saw them was Christmas time.

Can't wait to treasure the moments spending time with them again. =)

Talking about CNY, I tried to avoid listening to Chinese radio stations recently because they always play CNY songs. So recently I listen more English radio stations like Fix and Fly fm. But, this week these English radio stations started to play CNY songs as well.

Maybe I should learn to bear with the annoying "dong dong chiang" songs.


Happy Chinese New Year. Happy dong dong chiang. lol.