Fernie Bernie;

This year is rather different, but to my utmost liking. I have not had a steamboat meal and I have not tossed the yee sang yet. Compared to last year, I had at least 4 times of steamboat and countless times of yee sang. Don't get me wrong. All these are still going to happen this year, just slightly delayed. If you still remember, my sister is coming back tomorrow! So, they will all take place once the plane touches down. Hehe...

This year is by far, the most memorable and special one. I'll just let the pictures take over since they'll speak better than I do.

Mum woke up at god knows what time to prepare the offerings to the deities. As expected, the nian gao is essential and cannot be missed.

So were all these, which included gingko, mushrooms, lotus seeds and more nuts.

These decorations were put up only a day before the Chinese New Year. Still, we never failed to make it look good.

A 'God of Prosperity' to bring us more prosperity.

As usual, the house was still warm and quiet in the morning. Only the tv emitted sound.

It was only few hours later when relatives started filling the house and brought chatter to the quiet moment.

Let me just run through some of the food available for the guests. Here, we have oranges...

And lots of canned longans, groundnuts, homemade cookies and many more.

As for lunch, we went vegetarian just like the previous years. As seen above, that is the vegetarian pomfret.

Then, we have the black fungus with glass noodles.

And also vegetarian beef curry with potatoes. This one tasted real good.

Lastly, we have the stir-friend mixed vegetables.

Right after our sumptuous lunch, we headed right away to the living room for some photo-taking. Can you see that we were all dressed in the auspicious colour, RED???!!! It was our uniform for the day.

More photos....


The report is done. Time for some 'money-making' activities.