Family Meets

This Chinese New Year has been fun just hanging out with the family. This is going to be another Chinese New Year post and hey we still have another 13 days left to go. Meeting up with my cousins whom i barely see most of the time was great. I would like confess a small thing. When I was a kid I barely hung out much with the rest of my family members. I suppose you can almost make the assumption that i was an antisocial family person lol. That was me as a kid. I didn’t really know how to yack with others I suppose. Then I grew up and enjoyed social company.

Anyway cousins came over yesterday and it was a ball of fun. One of the aunts made homemade yee sang. That’s a first for me.. i think. You usually have yee sang followed by a huge gloriously too heavy meal. But this batch was made so that we could just toss it in the air and have fun as a big gathering.

The yee sang is now being prepared. 

 

The yee sang is now nearly completed

 

   

Take a look at the two mountain peaks of yee sang. haha.. I’m serious those were two huge platters of yee sang. 

 

 

Now everyone gather round and get ready to poke pok poke and mix mix mix.

 

Just look at all the hands.

After all that I realised that I was so busy taking pictures that I wasn’t in the fun… I demanded that my sister joined me while i took a shot of my hand in it. My brother commented that i was sad.. Am not!

The good thing about Chinese New Year, while it is not my favourite time of the year it does have it’s perks. Mainly the catching up and collection of ang paos Don’t deny it! If you are a chinese and you happen to be not married yet. You are still going around happily collecting ang paos. The more reds you see the happier you get.. complete opposite of anger hehe. According to my mom she says that if you open your ang paos too early or too fast you get less later on…. Yeah right! The first two days are the hardcore period of collecting. So all those of you who are complaining of being single and or unmarried out there.. don’t! You’re still entitled to collection. And don’t deny you do ask your friends how goes the ang pao collecting phase lol. Here’s grandma giving out ang paos to everyone in the family.. almost everyone la.   

The sister jumping in joy and actually i wanted a shot of Unc Tony with his two twin sons. The three of them were dressed in a mickey mouse theme. Hahaha so cute.  

Then the time comes for everyone to say bye bye. Even after saying bye you don’t really say bye cause in the end we’ll end up just going outside the house to do more yacking before anyone can get in the car. Hehehe.  

That was fun hehhee. All the cousins in a bunch.