Pre-除夕夜
Reunion dinner was at ah ma's house, just like any other year. We had steamboat. And yusheng. I'm beginning to like yusheng I think. It's addictive. :)

I love reunion dinners at home. Home-prepared and all, makes reunion dinners more traditional and meaningful. :) (Cheaper also, save money.)

除夕夜
Reunion dinner with my paternal side's relatives at Pioneer Spring Gardens I think. It's some restaurant which we went a few years ago to celebrate my grandma's birthday or something. It's at Safra. Expensive max. Each table costs like $888+++ which probably added up to a thousand plus per table. Food was good though, and fast service, plus free flow of drinks - water/coke/sprite.
Yusheng again! Most dishes were awesome. Love Asian food manz. And traditional desserts ftw - black sesame tang yuan in red bean soup NOM.

初一
1) Nai nai's house. Actually every year is the same, first house was always nai nai's house. I was the last to wake up and took like more than an hour to get ready. :P I wore my First Date Dress from Lilypirates. Oops old dress, cos I wore it in Taiwan, but my mum insisted that its pretty, so I wore that instead of the orange dress I bought from Taiwan hmm.
But that stupid dress requires big boobs to wear, so the front part of the dress kept sagging and I had to use a safety pin to prevent exposure of excess cleavage.
Oh my, look at all the new year goooooodies on the table... I'm waiting for cny to be over so my nai nai will start distributing the food. :P My pathetic house only has bak kua and pineapple tarts, and a container of hazelnut coffee cookies. All given by people, we didn't spend a single cent.
We went outside to take this photo. Many many years back, we took a similar photo, where we stood according to our age. But this one is a bit of a cheat, since almost all the girls were wearing heels.
Thanks to my 4.44 inches heels (eee why is the number so inauspicious) I looked like I'm the second tallest. :D But this pair of heels was super worth it. Cost me NT 399 (less than SGD 20), super comfy, versatile colour and it's glossy. Me like. :) Bad thing is that it takes me quite some time to wear them cos of the shoelaces. And if you stand on soft soil, the heels will actually dig in. :O Not bad luh, the colours of my dress were pretty Chinese New Year-ish. :) Okay this is a fairer photo. No shoes.
2) Ah ma's house. Went to ah ma's house for lunch. Waited so long there for my cousins to arrive haiyo. Oh man, my baby cousin is so cute!
My ah ma cooked chup chai for lunch and some other dishes. Then we sat around to talk about random funny things. Damn awesome, I love the people at my maternal side. :) And my ah ma was telling us that she bought dresses for the baby for like $2.50 - $3 each. Wth right! Super cheap and nice. She took them out to show us. :O Ah my mum sucks at taking photos. It's not even focused. But I still like this photo. :) And yixuan's romper was very pretty! Me like. :D The two Rafflesians. Pft haha. Notice the similarities. Hm actually yixuan and I will look alike too with our glasses. ;D
My ah ma started talking about how chuan kai used to be a naughty baby, and that he'll give this damn innocent face after he does mischievous stuff so my ah ma won't have the heart to beat him. :)
Ah so cute. :D
3) Uncle's house. Usually we'll head to my yeye's house before going to my uncle's house, but they already fetched my yeye there, plus his new house is too small to accomodate everyone.
Ate yusheng again, but this time, with all the good stuff like abalone and salmon. :)
Went back to the room to play our mahjong after eating the yusheng. Totally no luck at all. Played like ten over rounds the entire night and we only won one game. -.- Dinner was super good. There were so many kinds of meat - saba fish, beef, ginseng chicken, ma2 you2 chicken, braised duck, abalone, pork etc. All homecooked. :)

初二
I woke up earlier, but I was still the last one cos I took another hour to get ready. :/ Didn't even bother tying my hair. Wore my cheap mustard dress from some random shop in Toa Payoh. $12 only heehee! And I like the lace at the back yay!
1) Iris' uncle's house. I don't know what we call him, cos we only see them once a year and all we say were "Hello! Happy New Year *shakes hands*" or just "Hi, xin nian kuai le!" Um yea. :P His house is super artsy fartsy. That's my model house. Just wait, next time my house will be like his haha.
Mahjong. We took turns, so chunmei and shuenhwee and chernhwee took turns to play Monopoly Deal with my bro. Spot them in the background. Haha my bro is damn good at it, maybe he can be a property agent in future hmmm...
Iris took one seat, I took another with hernghwee. Szekhuen and kerncheh shared one slot. :) Won about 3 games. Not bad already luh. :P
Lunch was at Macs @ West Coast. So many people omg!
Bought my Happy Meal but they didn't have the Hello Kitty toy I wanted, so I settled with the 3rd design. The person almost forgot about my toy, I had to remind her. :( Plus my cup corn had no more margerine. And they forgot about my spoon. And they mixed up my dad's normal fries with twister fries. But it's okay cos twister fries are more expensive. *cheapo* Oh and they gave my cousin extra twister fries. :P But I'm not blaming them luh. There was really a lot of people and they did try their best to get us our food asap.
Bah I'm tempted to call twister fries curly fries. Doesn't that sound cuter...
2) Lao gou's house. Usual place too. But every year, we'll die from boredom cos we don't know anyone there, and they have no mahjong, so we'll play poker in the kitchen. This year kerncheh prepared like Uno, MonoDeal and poker cards so we could entertain ourselves. But in the end, some uncle ended up teaching us how to play some ancient card game. You know those long colourful cards the old aunties and uncles play at the void deck.
Quite fun, but it's so complicated my brain can't take it. :O 3) Aunt's house. Mahjong time!! Kerncheh went home to take his mahjong set so we can have two tables playing mahjong. In the end the other table decided to play the ancient card game. Bad mahjong luck again aiyo. Only won one round. D: Looking cui at the end of the day. :O
Dinner was Sakae delivery. Some prosperity plate haha!

初三
Met julian for dinner at White Sands. Macs! I was determined to get the snowboarding Kitty hah! And I got it~! :) Julian came over to kill time while we watched csi cos of the free channels. :D Until about 10 plus, we left the house to meet nathan at Pasir Ris Interchange.
Went to miranda's house for sleepover. Luckily we cancelled the midnight movie plan. Saved us 10 bucks and we spent the whole night playing mahjong. The mini one, damn cute lah.
I won like 5 games and lost the rest, so after the first 4 rounds, I earned about $4+, but I lost everything by the time we ended. Net earning was 70 cents haha! Miranda won the most. The boys not very lucky lah. Julian lost like 2 bucks. But we kept the stakes small, so the game was affordable. :P My first attempt at 13yao1. I had 9 out of 13 tiles. :O I tried it again after that, but obviously didn't work. Woah if it did, all of them would be pok. :P Anyway, we played till 5+AM. First time. :P

初四
Breakfast at White Sand's yakun. Yay traditional Asian breakfast ftw! So delicious. Actually it was our brunch, cos we ate at about 12 noon. :P We sat around to talk for a bit.
After they left, I waited for my mum at White Sands cos she needed to do some shopping. Ended up accompanying her for grocery shopping at NTUC.
Course at night, and julian came to fetch me after his OG dinner. :)
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Yup that's about all my cny activities for 2012, or rather, Year of the Dragon. The next post will likely be about my toothache. And then julian's enlistment. Oh maybe I'll do some "10 reasons why I love CNY" post haha, if I'm bored enough. :P
And omgosh my toothache is killing me. I have some decayed tooth/teeth somewhere in my mouth which prolly need(s) extraction/ fillings. Whatever, the doctor can do anything to me, as long as it guarantees improvement in my oral health. Save my ass (teeth) please!!! Luckily there was some slot on Monday so my initial appointment on 29th has been pushed forward. Thank goodness. Its so packed I booked it on 1st Jan this year and got a slot on end Feb. -.- I sort of can't wait for Mon. Its been years since I last visited a dentist. A foreign doctor though, cos our usual one is only free on Wed but this Wed she's fully booked ugh.
WISH ME LUCK! *Keeping my fingers crossed* :