Day 2

A lot of people came to my house today. Starting from 12noon, families after families started pouring into my house. Only until 10pm then did it stop.

I believe at least 50 came today. My house is always packed on the second day of new year. It is a kind of practice already. People will come to my house to visit my grandparents and the living room will be full with no place for us to sit except the floor.

This is what happens when you come from an extended and big family. We are close to my grandfather's brothers and god-brothers therefore every year we are packed.

Staying at home today earned me 6 'ang baos' and yesterday 22. Not the usual standard as we did not meet quite a lot of aunties from my maternal side. Luckily, I received 8 on new year from my immediate uncles, aunties, grandparents and parents. Hehe. Grand total of 36 on the second day. =P

However, today isn't a very good day to entertain the guests as my brother and I are sneezing away the whole day. I have a feeling that the 2 of us may be down with the same flu virus. -.-

I am feeling sleepy now. Off I go. Bye.

Day 1

Had to visit 6 places on the first day as the second day is when relatives visit my house.

Some pictures to summarise the day.

Dressed up and took a picture with my younger brother and my cousin in the background.


My younger brother took a picture of me with my bro in the background. Hehe.
Cutie at one of my granduncle's house.

End of the day.

Happy New Year

新年快乐

恭祝大家
鼠年旺旺
事事如意
身体健康

Taiwan celebrities mocking Singaporeans

There is this recent angry discussion on some Taiwan celebrities mocking at our English.

They were trying to imitate and add in their own 'spices' in the way we pronounce certain words at certain occasions.

Eg: "Thanks" as "dance" or "dense".


It brought about a group of Singaporeans attacking the one who started the topic.


I watched the whole episode of that particular topic and realized that the guy cannot speak English very well. In fact, he only knows a few words and cannot form a proper sentence. This guy, being the only one whose blog is more popularly known among viewers had been bombed with many harsh comments that were purposefully constructed in English to mock back at him.

I personally feel that those who commented to get back at him are just picking on someone weaker. I mean he isn't the only one who tried to imitate, there are more of those who did far worst than what he had done. So why is he the only one being attacked.

It is not that I am not proud of myself being a Singaporean but one must learn to forgive and forget. Besides, no point ruining another's new year.

Since he had already apologized on his blog, let's forget it all.

It is time for new year so let the past passes and enjoy a prosperous new year. =)

My bro

My bro will be leaving Singapore in less than 10 days time to Australia to take his degree. He will be there for 2 years and although he will be back at the end of the year, but I still feel that I will miss him a lot, especially after my younger brother enlist.

Soon, I will be all alone in the room. Sob. T.T

Yan Ting's 21st

Pictures will come in at a later time.


Yan Ting's 21st had been planned since November last year when the idea of giving her a surprise suddenly popped up in my head.


Being all excited, I started carrying out all the plans with Shi Yun and Jia Ying.


The first move was to get Yan Ting's bf, Lincoln's, number. We intended to ask Lincoln to ask Yan Ting out on her actual birthday or the day after and bring her to our BBQ pit at East Coast where a group of us will be ready to celebrate and create a memorable 21st birthday for her.

Somehow, things did not go according to plan. Firstly, Yan Ting's family, cousins and poly friends could not make it. Then Lincoln sent in a bad news of having night duty on the BBQ date. Immediately we activated Plan B. That is to ask her out and discreetly bring her to our pit.


On the actual day, Jia Ying and I went to get some food and drinks before we headed to BBQ Wholesale to collect the food. It was a disaster. There were far too many food for us, the 2 poor girls. No taxi in sight and rain was falling mercilessly.

A sms came in.
"Yan Ting is sick."

I thought I heard the thunder roared when I read that message. A surprise birthday party with no birthday girl is not a birthday party at all.

I called her immediately and was forced to tell her that we had a surprise for her and asked her to try to come if she felt better later on.

With the food and rain, Jia Ying and I finally managed to hail a cab and get to East Coast. The problem was then to get to the BBQ pit that we had no idea where it was. Walking a long stretch along the coastline of East Coast, we almost dropped dead and finally saw Shi Yun with the holy ring above her head(exaggerating a bit here). =P With the help of Shi Yun, we finally managed to get to our pit and the journey took us a whole hour.

As people came, we had to break the bad news of the birthday girl being sick and not being able to come. Then someone decided to give her a call and trick her to get to the pit.

It worked, she came in spite of not feeling well. The party ended soon after she went home and thanks god it was all well.

This morning, Jia Ying came over to my house where we started to make the photo album for Yan Ting. Photos and album all ready except for captions and decorations. We spent almost 4 hours to make the album and I sent it to Yan Ting's place in the evening. I have no idea whether she has saw the album or not yet as I haven't receive anything from her.

I really hope that she likes the surprise. =)

Extremely exhausted

I had been mentally stressed up these days to prepare for Yan Ting's 21st birthday party.


My hands are aching from carrying several kilograms of raw food from Mc'donalds all the way to the other side of East Coast Park.


There are many hiccups that made us really disappointed and all but luckily our effort did not go to waste.


I have many to thank for helping out today and making the effort to come and wish Yan Ting.


Will do a proper update tomorrow. In the meantime, I need to start Plan B.