Year of the Horse

Happy Lunar New Year everyone! 祝大家新年快乐、身体健康、恭喜发财、年年有余、心想事成、龙马精神、马到成功、马年行大运！HUAT AH!!

Chinese New Year has always been my favourite festival of all. You guessed it! The goodies, the ang paos, the once a year blackjack, new clothes, new bag, new pjs, most importantly, gatherings with family and friends! Unlike most people who will go house to house visiting during cny, my family's tradition is everyone gather at someone's house and we feast the entire day haha!

The weekend before cny, my aunt and 2 cousins came over to bake her signature pineapple tarts and kueh lapis. We spent both Saturday and Sunday baking 21 bottles of pineapple tarts and 6 kueh lapis. We were all so worn out by the end of Sunday. I can't believe my aunt used to bake the same amount of goodies all by herself. Calling for helpers next year or else I'll suffer!! HAHAHA.

Reunion Day: In the morning, my school had a cny celebration and every class was supposed to dress up according to a cny theme. And my awesome class went as HUMAN YU SHENG HAHAHAHA. Anyway I stupidly thought that half the school would wear home clothes… So I wore casually to school. It turned out my schoolmates were boring people and most of them wore half u. It made me mad and embarrassed at the same time. Sigh, I should've known.. 

That aside, my class won the most meaningful photo for the Instagram contest yayy!! We lou hei-ed and had a surprise birthday celebration for Soo Peng and Jenna! I love mah class.

Human Yu Sheng. (not exactly the same, but close enough!)

Photo credit: JR

Happy 18th Birthday Soo Peng and Jenna! <3 <3

#louheiwith1331

After class reunion lunch at Mad Jack, I went back home and prepared to have reunion dinner (STEAMBOAT) with the Ow family! 

I didn't take a photo of the steamboat, so here's yu sheng made by my aunt for you.

CNY Day 1: Like the usual cny routine, we took more than an hour to doll up, then took a bunch of family photos and bai nian to the parents before heading to my eldest uncle's house!

 Wasn't ready for the self-timer shot haha!

Family photo! <3

 Cutie parents!

Sorry for the bright photos, I am too lazy to edit.

 Selfie in the car!

Outfit inspired by Blair Eadie. I super love her style! Yes la, I admit she pulls it off better than I do haha.

 With my lovely grandpa!

Bai nian to my grandma. The hand sticking out is my eldest aunt who was trying to get an ang pao from grandma hahaha.

Why are my dad and his da jie so gross hahahaha bewbz and nipz!

The one and only uncle kit who will wear red velvet pants and floral shirt. Loud and crazy style runs in the Ow family.

My big family! There're some more cousins living overseas!

Introducing MR.T!!!! He's soooo adorable.

 With my niece, Genevieve who loves to sing. She kept bugging me to sing Let it go and Do you wanna build a snowman with her so kewt.

With my cousin sean sean and my nephew, Eugene.

CNY Day 2: I woke up at 9.30am to accompany my mum to the temple to pray to my late grandfather and bai tai sui (拜太岁). I heard from my mum that those born in the year of rat may not have a smooth year. Since this year is an important year for me, I decided to pray for health, studies and all things good. Also, it has been a few years since I last visited my late grandfather. Although I was only 4 when he passed away, I still can remember the things he always did and said to us, his grandchildren. I miss him <3

We then headed to chef Louis' house for lunch in the afternoon!

Don't worry, I was wearing skorts haha.

Polka dots. Thanks Janice for this outfit from bkk! <3

With my cousin, Aaron.

With Jaeng Hee who looks like a Korean boy.

With si yi who looks super like xiang yun hahahahahaha.

With my cousin, Samuel!

 CHUBBY! <3

Sad face cuz I lost money :(

As usual, we all drank gong cha.. It's becoming a tradition haha.

With the girls/women in the Tay family! 

In the evening, Oli and Camy left to go to their bf's place and the parents went to Auntie Connie's house to play mahjong. I didn't wanna follow because I know I'll be bored and then annoyed at the adults for playing mahjong haha. So I went to crash Yuexin's house! Her friends were at her place but I was thick skinned and went anyway hahaha I really hope her friends won't mind. And it was my first time in 7 years going to the bffl's house to bai nian woo thanks for letting me come over!

See ya later, alligator.