Bangkok - Here I come......

Yuppie finally i can go for another holiday.... Wanted to go for a short trip in March and chose Bintan initially coz i have never been there at all... Did all the research and planning then cousins and colleague tempt me by asking me to write them a list of places to go in Bangkok. Then finally after consulting BE, we decided to go Bangkok, together with my second bro (the di tuo snake there), where i can do a little of my shopping, manicure, eat good food, etc.

Felt so excited that i can take a short break before colleague go on his one month long reservist starting from end March, cannot imagine how i am going to survive those days. Anyway, the first few things that came up my mind for this trip are the cheap and yummy mango glutinuous rice and the grilled chicken along the roadside (i think i can only drool this time round as i was told not to eat road side food). Haha anyway going to plan my itinery later, reading up forum to check out if there is any new places which i should not miss, so that i can fully utilise my time there and yet not tire myself out.

Must go place will be Chatuchak (not sure if this is close liao coz there is plans to close down this place since last year), Suan Lum night market, MBK, Emporium or Siam Paragon, etc.........

Ren Ri - Happy Birthday!

CNY Chu Seven is also known as Ren Ri, symbolising everyone's birthday. Here comes the annual CNY dinner at Suntec City organised by Fo Ya Shi, holding about near to 400 tables. Reaching there around the same time with MP Ma and took the same elevator as him which makes me and BE looks as if we are part of his entourage and be in a little of the limelight. The event started off with singing National Anthem and the Buddhism song, followed by saying prayers by many monks.

All the devotees will hold on to their fa gao which costs $2888 to take a pic with the Reverend, monks and MPs on stage.

Thereafter the show started with having 8 lions and 2 dragons on stage as the first performance before our vegetarian dinner starts. We had vege yu sheng together at the same time with other tables, the emcees shout out the blessings which comes with fire works each time they finish their lucky phrase.

Here comes the star of the year - Mr Mouse holding the banner indicating "feng yi zu shi"...... FIL and his business partner bid at an enormous amount, which makes my jaw drop when the emcees count to three.

Gong Hei Fatt Choy!!!!!!!

Happy New Year to everybody...

Got this funny message early in the morning of chu yi and was thinking who is Mr Teo whom i will be expecting at my house. Haha it is actually Teo 4D, Teo Big Sweep, Teo Toto.... =)

First year giving ang bao felt so excited and confused at the same time as different red packet covers have different denominations so have to mark down correctly so as to avoid giving the wrong one out. Now it is finally my turn to wish people "kuai gao zhang da", "xue ye jing bu"..... As it is my first year, we still manage to get quite a number of red packets in return... Yuppie!

The Not-to-missed annual family portrait taken during chu yi with new members... Everyone has big smiles on their face as we all were saying tomato ("fan chie") in chinese while taking the picture. Why??? my aunt says the picture will turn out nicer when u say these words during photo taking.... Haha try this out on urself and see if it works