Want to wish everyone a Happy Year of the Ox this 2009. I stayed true to one of my resolutions so far.. See for the past couple of years I haven’t been around with my family during Chinese New Year. I spent it elsewhere, down in Penang. Felt a bit odd cause well not my family members and all, even worse I couldn’t speak Hokkien. Not meaning it wasn’t great, just wasn’t with the family. This year though I decided to stay on for the first 2 days of CNY, which is the important part. Besides I haven’t seen some of my cousins for a while. 

Coming in first is the Chinese New Year reunion dinner. It’s just a simple dinner with the immediate family members and it was great food.

Immediate family all here. It’s a tradition that we have to take a picture of the family when we have our reunion dinner. And every single year I don’t bother to dress up for the occassion. Lol i just want to relax and chill.

This was the delicious food I smelt on the way down from the stairs. 

First we all dug into the Yee Sang which is probably my 4th Yee Sand in two weeks now. According to tradition when you mix the yee sang, you have to bring your chopstick really really high. Throwing the yee sang high means you have more prosperity. Okkkk….

And of course in between you’ll get yee sang all over the place and also you’ll get into a chopstick fight. Like how i did with my mom. lol

Glorious fresh steamed fish.

Pork with mayonnaise and pineapple. Not a fan of the pineapple but still nice. 

Broccoli with my favourite abalone. Ok I think that’s enough for food. 

Now i’ll move on to a short video of my nephew who is just so cute. You know little kids when they see things thet look at everything with such awe and with bid dowey eyes. Even if they have seen it for the first time they are still amazed. What’s even cuter is when a kid sees himself in the mirror or on the screen. My lil nephew here just kept on saying … wow! Hahaha. Ignore the voices in the video and just watched the kid. lol

That was my reunion day and here begins the Chinese New Year celebration.