Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Reunion Dinner...

Every year my family goes through the same routine of packing up on new year's eve and driving down to singapore for our Reunion Dinner with my mum's family... Yeah..u read right.. mum's family... My family is a bit terbalik when it comes to tradition...

How, what was different this year was how much food there was.. haha!! on a norm we would have perhaps 12 dishes max... This year we had 18 dishes... yeap.. count em... 18 dishes for 20 person.. Menu is as below:


1. Sharksfin soup

2. Abalone soup

3. Claypot chicken rice (supposedly with damn good 'ham yu')

4. Fried Mee Sua

5. Tang Hoon in thick soup

6. Pork dumpling

7. Chicken dumpling

8. Tomato curry chicken

9. Stir Fry Beef

10. Pan Fried Beef

11. Chicken stuffed with glutinous rice

12. Vegetarian Pun Choi

13. Tong Po Meat

14. Prawn Fritters

15. Sweet & Sour Fish

16. Mixed Vegetable

17. Beancurd skin roll

18. Fish Maw

Part of all the dishes... some couldnt fit on the table so were left in the kitchen... and as our typical reunion goes... we stood and walked around the table like a buffet spread.... It has been a long time since I have properly sat down around a table and have my reunion dinner.. but I like it this way anyway... It's how my family rolls... :D

Cookies for the New Year...

Baking this year's cookies was a rush... with all the assignments and exams here and there I didnt really have a weekend to myself to bake... Stole a weekday just before the CNY to bake... People would think I am nuts... It took 12 solid hours and 6 batches to complete...
The most challenging part of the process... mixing all the ingredients together... It takes muscles... a lot of em.... shows how pack full of goodies the cookies are... :D
Mom says make em small... Kept complaining mine was big.. :( then have to downsize.. she says they need to be bite size... as if ppl's mouth were that small.. Hmmph!! I bet even with the initial sizes I made they would still be just one mouthful.. a slightly fuller one but still a mouthful.. hehe!! But dun argue with mom.. she knows best...
Hmmm.... the aroma of bakes cookies filled the entire house.. Yum Yum!! I kept making excuse that I needed to try.... ate from every tray eventhough same batch.. haha!! Yum Yum!!!
All packed and ready to be given out... Good thing this year's list of giveaway is slightly shorter than last years or else a day would not suffice.... :)

Friday, January 23, 2009

Aichin's many fortunes...

Hehe!! Have been eating fortune cookies these past couple of days... So me got many many fortunes.. hehe!! not exactly la.. just 3 so I decided to share my fortunes since my blog has been so neglected...

Fortune Cookie #1 says:

DO WHAT YOU LOVE TODAY AND NEVER REGRET FOR NOT DOING IT...

(wise advise... *nods*)

Fortune Cookie #2 says:

THE GREAT PLEASURE IN LIFE IS DOING WHAT PEOPLE SAY YOU CANNOT DO...

(Hmm... quite true I suppose.. *nods again*)

Fortune Cookie #3 says:

SHARE YOUR HAPPINESS WITH OTHERS TODAY...

(Shall try and spread the joy then...*nods a final time*)

*new update

Fortune Cookie #4 says:

BEHIND AN ABLE MAN, THERE ARE ALWAYS OTHER ABLE MEN...

(What da??!!! This one I totally no get it.. *shakes head*)

Let's see whether I eat any more cookies.. then I shall update my fortunes.. hehhe!!

In the mean time...

GONG XI FA CHAI EVERYONE!!!

Monday, January 5, 2009

My Christmas....

Last year.. my christmas was quite a quiet one.. didnt do much... My eve started with this little greeting from Denise... thanks... so cute... :DChristmas Eve nite was spent at my TKD instructor's house... food was damn good.. my annual intake of roast lamb was waiting for me... It was as delicious as I remembered... had the ribs till they were bare... the rest of the food was great this year round too.. so much variety... best part of it all was being able to catch up with Saz, Ching Yee+husband+family, Vivien, Hong Wai & Isabelle...Have not had such a getogether for such a long time.... It was nice... My first christmas pressie was from Ching Yee....

A turquoise coloured stone pendant... Sorry.. dunno what stone but it is really nice... :) Her sis gave me a frenship band as well but I didnt snap a photo..thanks Ching Mun...

Then home I went to open pressies with my family... Here is where the fun starts... I bought us some crackers from Marks & Spencer to play with.... hehe!! The gifts were just trinkets but the popping was cool...hehe!! Have not popped one for the longest time...
Then came to my pressies... hehe!!! My present for the year from my sisters was my cute little Thomas Sabo Schnauzer Doggy charm... nice!!! :D
Ai Li made an extra effort this year too!! She handmade me a butterfly pendant....and for such great efforts.. she gets a cute snowman in return... hehe!!!
I have one last pressie... a special doll with a very special msg.... She's got a secret to share... Shhh.....
Hehe!! That wraps up my christmas pressies....

Now for my christmas day... had lunch at a fren's place... had really good devil's curry... and super large popiah... heheh!! At nite there was my dinner at Elcerdo... but u already know what I ate there... :)

I enjoyed my christmas thoroughly eventhough this year was a very simple and personal affair... :)

Hope everyone was happy with my gifts... :D

Merry X'mas and Happy New 2009 Year!!!

Greetings and well wishes to everyone...

I know it's kinda belated... well I actually have attempted to blog with no success quite a few times.. pictures refuse to load.... pictures refused to be deleted.... and etc... it has been hell trying to blog from home.. think my connection is really nuts.... so here I am just blogging words... :)


Hope everyone had a smashing good time welcoming the new year!!! It now 'two-oh-oh-nine'!!!!