Annual corporate lohei - rooster year

For posterity, so I know that on this day, I was part of this lovely organisation among my lovely team, celebrating this lovely occasion with a lovely and extravagant lohei.

Thankful to be part of this lovely corporate family.

Gong xi fa cai ah!

Jake made a rooster

Someone did some craft at school and brought this home. So simple, so cute, so apt!

Rooster

And this is a funny sight of the boy one morning. Tee hee hee.

Sleeping - tucked like a rooster

Lunar New Year, day 3

On the 3rd day of LNY, there was no work or school as it was still a Public Holiday. I squeezed in a work out then brought the kids to have lunch/play at a friend's house. Home-cooked food FTW!


After that, we headed home for a nap before heading out in the evening for a family affair, followed by dinner round 2 at a friend's.


It was a super late night with the husband getting high-drunk, and the kids going to sleep past 1am. ONE IN THE MORNING! -gasp-

One with my lion-dance-loving-child

LNY is probably the favourite occasion for us, because it is a true-blue Asian affair, and one time in the year where you can legitimately do all vices at one time, just because! Haha!

Kisses from the boy. Love!

Sunday Brunch

It was a lovely Sunday morning... and it turned into an even better day when I experienced my first ever Champagne brunch with the sister and the BIL, the husband and some friends!

Cheers!

I had the most splitting headache after (whose brilliant idea was it to bottoms up the damn glass anyway?!) and totally crashed into bed when I got home. If not for the alarm I set because we were hosting dinner at our house... I think I'd have slept right into night time.


Ahhhh... good times.

Rooster Lunar New Year, Day 2

Our second day started with me squeezing a bit of yoga in, then us preparing to head out. On the menu, was prata! The sister and her in-law family hosted us with an indulgent prata breakfast. It was yummy! 

Foo-Yeap-Seah

Then, we made our way to the other in-law family where we had a steamboat lunch and some adult play-time. We finished off with the last stopover at my in-law family.


Everyone adjourned for rest then gathered again in the evening at our uncle's place. It was the usual of fun, laughter, play... and this year, we had a visit from some special huat guests.

Lion dance, 3rd day in a row! And Pika, with our dad.

Day 2 meant that the next day was still a public holidays... hooray!

#neverbefore

Me: good night (kisses the husband)


Him: You are turning 40 already!


Me: TSK. You'll always get there before me, k.


Him: Wow.


Me: ???


Him: I cannot imagine kissing a 40 year old woman!


Me: shrieks in annoyance/ convulses with laughter


My husband, the comedian


-rolls eyes-

Year of the Rooster, day 1

As per tradition, we started off the first day of the Rooster year having the children pay their respects to the husband and I.

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Xin Nian Kuai Le!

Family, 2017

Silly family,2017

I like how we ended up being pretty colour co-ordinated, pretty unplanned. After our home's intimate affair, we continued with our traditional schedule of heading to my Mom's house. This year, the brother and sister have both moved out so instead of them being home, we all made our way to Mom's. We had a fulfilling and heart-warming meal of home-cooked soup and noodles (the same every year! Mom is best!) at Mom's then did our family exchange of hugs, well-wishes and red packets.

Foo-Seah-Yeap.

We headed to Grandma's, then split up for our own family meetings; where we head to the husband's side of the family.

Matchy-match boys

Lion dance - 2nd day in a row!

We managed to head home for an afternoon nap, before the siblings came over to our home for blessings. Forgot to take a youngling's pic, but we shall next time! We played some games and had some drinks together, before heading to Mom's for the annual steamboat dinner with the extended family.
The night ended with the usual round of drinks and card-games, it was nice and fun and tiring. Nothing beats being around family who laugh and make merry together.


Happy lunar new year! Here's to a beautiful kick-ass rooster year! Woot!