Lunar New Year Part I

02.02.2011 Wednesday - New Year's Eve

Woke up in the afternoon to send Custard for her final jab before the lunar holidays.

Headed home to finish up our chores and washed up, before going off to MIL's for our first reunion dinner. Second one was at Mommy's in the evening. Mommy and my aunts headed off to Chinatown after that, but we decided to go home to rest instead (SO tired from the pre-new year cleaning and preparation).

03.02.2011 Thursday - New Year's Day [初一]

As with previous years, this day is reserved for Poppy's paternal family.

Started off with visiting MIL's place, and having our lunch. Then visited 伯伯 & 伯娘's house - this will be the last year we'll be having our new year visit at this house. That's coz this old flat has been announced for en bloc a few years back, and they'll be receiving the keys to their new unit a couple of days later. Next year, we'll be seeing them in the new house! 伯娘's a huge Lego fanatic, so we bought her a set from the States during our honeymoon. She was so happy. Heh.

Next stop is 姑妈's. Because she's been having trouble with her knees and joints, her maid was the one who prepared the dinner this year. We still enjoyed nevertheless. Then we ferried both 姑妈 & 伯娘 to MIL's place for a bit of chit chat, then brought them to our house before sending them home.

Headed off to 三姨's place where Poppy battled against my brother, aunt and uncle on the mahjong table while Mommy and I went to sleep in cousin's room. They finally ended the "war" at 7am and we headed home to sleep.

04.02.2011 Friday - [初二]

Like always, this day is reserved for visiting 舅舅.

Seeing Nathaniel, Sharmayne & Abigail grown so much, Gong Gong + Popo were overjoyed and could hardly stop smiling throughout the day.

Poppy had the honor to take the photo of the attendees this year.

Sis and the two pretties - Sharmayne & Abby

05.02.2011 Saturday - [初三]

Had our brunch at McDonald's at the new Clementi Mall, loitered around a bit, and headed to MIL's. The usual chitter-chatter and the guys had their dose of mahjong. Godma and I waited on the sofa till we almost zonked out. Luckily they wrapped up around 11pm, and we sent Godma & Godpa home before heading to JB for supper and top-up our tank after these few days' island-wide traveling.

Abby & Niel Niel @ MIL's

... to be continued