Happie Lunar New Year from Down Under

Happy Lunar New Year to Everybody~!!!~

Although I would really prefer to be back in Singapore RIGHT NOW for this very traditional Chinese New Year festive season... Recent Sydney's weather hasn't been the best to celebrate our CNY festival. Always wet & windy; making CNY parades, stage performances & lion dances to disappear. But we still make an effort to go down to StarCity casino to see the lion dances & dragon dance, plus 2 strings traditional Red Firecrackers!! Also took Angpows from Mr Chai, Chai Sen Ye (God of Wealth).

When checking out the steamboat on the previous blog entry, made me drool & heart wrenchin' to go home to sit there and have dinner together. Pap, you can really make me miss home. But knowing everybody is having a ballin' good time, lightens my spirits as well. Thanks for the Toast! Pictures does speaks a thousand words... That's very sweet.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaammmm Sengggggggggggggggggggg

back to all @ home too~ *BIG SMILES*

However, Clement & I made it a point to keep certain traditions alive for the next generation to appreciate the lil' family traditions & taboos. We had a mini-spring cleaning; which means clearing my clutter. Clement has not much clutter. I take after my Dad, I like to keep stuffs, work-out stuffs & repair stuffs. So it's the time of the year, to those I can't repair / no time to attend to -- Goodbye! straight into the bin.

Next, shopping! New clothes! to usher in the new Rat year, MY year. Yes, 2nd round - 24 yrs old. Bought almost $50 worth of food supplies to DISH up our Reunion Dinner for the next 3 days and to have a brand new sack of Rice for the coming Rat year! Rice to feed the Rat. *grinz*

Not too long now, I'll be back home in time for the 人日 (Ren Re), in other words, Yu-Sang day~!!! Oh Yeah... Till then... Take care & wishing all Hs - Happiness, Health & Heaps of Money!

~CNY greetings from Down Under~

LETS USHER IN THE GOLDEN RAT FEB 7, 2008

GREETINGS TO EVERYBODY.

Today is the LUNAR NEW YEAR 2008 OF THE GOLDEN RAT.

My wishes for everybody :

"MAY THIS YEAR THE YEAR OF THE GOLDEN RAT BRINGS.....

PROSPERITY

GOOD FORTUNES
SUCCESS IN YOUR ENDEAVOURS

ROBUST HEALTH

AND LASTLY BUT NOT LEAST ABUNDANCE WEALTH."

Sidetrack a bit : U know people used to say "Money is not everything, Health n Love are"

Fair enough so this year of the Golden Rat I am gonna advocate on Robust Health n Cherishment of Love. But then I have this habit of "I Love Money", so how?..hianz....

Ok, Lets get back to the main topic of the Golden Rat.

Some pixs here for your veiwing pleasure, how we toiled on the preparation to usher in this Golden Rat 2008.

The Toiling Begun......

And the reward....LETS ALL JOIN OUR HANDS (physically n in spirit) N OFFICIALLY USHER IN THE GOLDEN RAT YEAR OF 2008

See the nice spread of food on the table..yummyyyy and wine too.

(Huh!!!! Where is the wine?????)

And then here is the reward.... feasting time... Okay Lets tuck in now.......

And Yeah, the future Man of the House, handling the wine...yeahhhh!!!!!!

And the Grand Finale, these three pieces of Pixs is the special moment .

My Girl, We on this side like to propose a toast to you, My Girl, n also your boyfriend, who are celebrating with us here in spirit,

'HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR ....... KONG HEE HUAT CHAI".......

Yammmmmmm Sengggggggggggggggggggggg

Travelogue Journal Part 2

This is the continuation of the Travelogue to Penang/Kedah in 2007.

This section would cover the actual purpose of the trip and that is the Annual Family Gathering.

Loads of pictures to see n to laugh it off. All of us had a good time there besides the food galore The Pearl of the Orient is popular for.

Here are some pictures for u to have an idea the fun we had. (Jealous lehz..haha)

REGISTRATION TIME N ALL THE JAZZ (with money exchanged hands n collection of toilets rolls)


Caryn Betty n Nancy


Me kaypoh at the registration


Registration completed..Chiongggg Ahhhhh


What a lovely happy pair (-.-)


U see, how happy there are..told u is fun


Deryck n Daryn-the Handsome duo

Give u a peek in a Closed Door Meeting (-.-)

MEETING PROPER


Ok Door checked, Meeting can commence liao


All ready, HEAR 'YE HEAR 'YE


Ready..Get Set....Go..>>>>>>>>


The reunion huggggzzzzzzzz (starter)


Snapshot, Jes 4 d'Memory


Aiyo Apa ini no broadband kahz..how?????


Fun includes Baby Sitting Okayyyyyy

Annoucing the Arrival of All Members ....(Protocol list quick...(-.-)

THE MEMBERS


Peng, YangKok, Lek, Hsien Loong, Boon Keng Nancy


Johnson (hi !! hi !!) Betty Molly (slightly hidden)


And All d'King's Men n Women



(Standing: Mike, Boon Keng, Johnson, Deryck, Molly, Daryn)
(Sitting : Peng, Nancy, Hsien Loong, Susan, Jun (YangKok), Lek, Betty, Ching, Caryn, Me)


Absent: James - He is the main organiser for this beautiful gathering. n Azizah
Note of Appreciation: Would like to take this opportunity to record my note of THANK YOU for the effort in Organising this gathering. Thank You

The Paradox of Our Time

Read on people...

The Paradox of our Time!

The paradox of our time in history is that...
We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers.
Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less.
We buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families.
More conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees, but less sense.
More knowledge, but less judgment.
More experts, but more problems.
More medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly,laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly,stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little,watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life;
We've added years to life, not life to years.
We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We've conquered outer space, but not inner space;
We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less;
We plan more, but accomplish less;
We've learned to rush, but not to wait;
We have higher incomes, but lower morals;
We have more food, but less appeasement;
We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.
We've become long on quantity, but short on quality.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion;
Tall men, and short character;
Steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare;
More leisure,but less fun;
More kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are days of two incomes, but more divorce;
Of fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom;
A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to make a difference, or to just hit delete...

Dr. Bob Moorehead

Travelogue Journal to Penang/Kedah (Part 1)

So this is Year 2008 now ...sunny sky the air smell fresh..phewwww...is the Year 0f 2008 already.

So last year (actually was only yesterday hahaha) I mentioned about blogging some exciting travelogue. Actually it was the Family Annual Gathering in Penang held at Leisure Cove on December 18th to 22th 2007.

The journey started off on the December 17th where the whole family went to stay overnight at Malaysia. We planned to start the journey early. Was pretty excited for the meet up so practically didnt sleep the whole night.

On 18th morning, had breakfast - Ampang Yong Tau Foo style in Johore Bahru. Beautiful breakfast. Then the journey began at 800 hours. Didnt want to go into detail of the whole journey. Arrived in Alor Setar roughly 1730 hours. Smooth traffic all the way except for a slight scared at Jasin n was waved thru the road block. What a big sigh of relieve. (Bless me - I am the driver at that time haha)

Actually I wanted to blog the travellogue about the journey to the mountain called the "Elephant mountain" in Alor Setar. The mountain supposed to be in a shape of an Elephant resting, anyway the saying "a picture tells a thousand word" . Here are the pictures.

The Frontal Portion

The Back Portion

This is the mountain where the Kedahan people mined the crystallite. Have taken a few sample shots of the crystals displayed for sale, unfortunately the results are poor.

Managed to walk and explore inside the caves there. More pictures here for your viewing pleasures.

So this conclude Part 1 of the Travelogue Journal.