Year of the dog, hair of the dog
It was our very first Chinese New Year as a married couple - which meant that we had to give out ang pows. (oh - and I never knew this - we get ang pows in the first year of marriage as well, apparently, we get them for luck and stuff, guess we're still not adults yet... ahhaha)
Speaking of being a total child - the Adnap wasn't very keen on the whole Chinese New Year/be cordial to guests/give out ang pows thing.
At one point, he zoomed past his parents' place in the car - with his mom and dad watching at the door - just to avoid the guests who were leaving. It was so embarassing!!!! How do you explain that away?? aiyoooh.
And while I was trying to pao an ang pow for one of his family friend's son, he just spat "aiyah, forget it laaaaaaaaaaaaah! NO need to give!" like, aiyo, they were within hearshot! *cringes*
I dunno man... the man liked it enough when he was getting the ang pows! Hoggible I swear.
Anyhoos, the four days were interesting enough... we had our first reunion dinner as an extended family, saves the problem of where to have dinner at. We went to YingThai at Purvis Street. It was really very nice - but it was so much food that we were very bloated and could hardly walk after. It's really the story of the entire four days, eat, eat and eat some more.
Terrible. Plus, I got told that I gained weight. Like waddya expect? Geez.
Ain't it scary: Both moms (mine's on the left) wearing almost identical tops. *shudder* PS; they did not co-ordinate it; they arrived separately. It just happened.
Dad's going "As long as I have my beer... I can tahan anything"
The Adnap (you can still see how he's pretty burnt save the white circles around his eyes) and his dad in the background. Yes, the Adnap is making silly faces. When will he learn that these pictures *actually* make it to cyberspace. Hummmmmmmmmmm.
But, if I may say so myself, that one was quite a nice composition, not bad the things you can do with a sony ericsson phone with a 1.3 megapixel inbuilt cam... it's quite useless if there isn't enough light, but can lah.
So that was like, Saturday night, on Sunday was a crazy day of helping mom out cos she cooked for droves of people. The Adnap was on call, and the call team all had steamboat - quite inventive these anaesthetists - one brought the pot, the rest brought contributions.
On Monday night, the Adnap and I decided to do something we haven't done in ages. Something really quite stupid in retrospect. We went to check out the clubbing scene at Clarke Quay
with Karen, Rez and Neil. Karen and Rez have recently welcomed baby Cayden and Neil's the proud papa of Caitlin, so you can well imagine, it's been a loong time since we all went out and there was actually alcohol was involved.
Took a couple of pictures while we having drinks outside Attica
That's Neil.
