年初二

Wake up -> Buffer breakie -> Swimming -> MASSAGE!! ->Nagoya Shopping Centre! -> Dinner at Fisherman Restaurant! Saw my little toe in the previous post? Got hurt after swimming session and still die-die-must-go MASSAGE. Had a wonderful one at a spa centre nearby. Yup, I walked over with my hurting toe as all massage sessions in Novotel was FULLY BOOKED.

Still insisted on going shopping at Nagoya, we were going to have dinner there anyway and it was just a stone throw away from Novotel.

Toe'ing Telling

I thought of having the part 2 but one of my toe was too painful to move..why? See below...

Batam..Here we come!

恭喜发财!!

Finally this day has come! We met the Lians at Harbour Front and had some sinful quick bite at Carls Junior before we board the ferry at 2pm. See! M and Ben really enjoyed themselves!

Ferry ride -> Reached Batam -> To Novotel -> Checked-In -> To Megamall ->Dinner at Golden Prawn

Is 年初一, how could we forget about our CNY goodies! Yeah, we carried some over to Batam the whole gang were in our room munching ! Ben and M even got themselves some beer at Megamall at $1/each.

I think we are ready..

We are actually planning to add a bundle of adorable babyness in this coming year. N and I would discuss about this almost every weekend when we meet on how to cope with children, precious moments between couples, blah blah blah... Can't remember since when, we started to let C plays in our room, she will watch cartoons (her fav Doreamon), plays guitar while N and I gosipping in another room. So, who is looking after her while C's parents are away?

"Just let C plays with her Uncle Ben, then we can surf net and do some blogging together"

"C is really a handful, if ask Ben to look after her(for a while), might scare him away..."

That's right, is her Favourite Uncle Ben! Today, as usual, C and Uncle Ben were surfing Internet in our room, suddenly, Uncle Ben came out and said,

" Honey, she is logging in.."

N and I really take aback after finding out what really happened ..



Uncle Ben taught C how to file her nails on the other day and today, he taught her how to log in to my computer!

Exhausted, Happy, Contented, Mellow

I'm feeling Exhausted, Happy, Contented, Mellow...

Because we COOK and we CLEAN

Because today is the EVE

Because we are ALL TOGETHER

Because everything is PERFECT !!

做年咯!!

“做年”is the way we say for “过年”. Interesting, right? Just like every family, we will prepare cookies, biscuits for family and giveaway some to our immediate families. But there is something that I have no idea if it happens in every Chinese family but in our family, as Hainanese, is a 习俗(tradition) that we will prepare a nice tray and place some auspicious items on it and each of everyone of them contains some meanings : 供年


年糕 - “年糕”与“年高”谐音 寓意“步步高升”一年比一年高

黄梨/凤梨 - “黄梨”与“旺来”谐音，寓意“ 旺来”

菜头/白萝卜 - “菜头”与“彩头”谐音，寓意 “ 好彩头”

萝卜 - 寓意 “ 好彩头”

大吉/橘子 - 寓意“大吉大利”

蒜 - “蒜”与“算”谐音，寓意“有钱算”

葱 - “葱”与“聪”谐音，寓意“聪明伶俐”

茄子 - 海南话寓意“一年比一年好”，“今年胜过往年”

番茄 - 海南话寓意“一年比一年好”，“今年胜过往年”

芹菜 - “芹”与“勤”谐音，祈望全家在新的一年勤勤劳劳

芋头 - “芋头”与“意头”谐音，寓意“好意头”

柚子 - “柚子”与“碌有”谐音，寓意好事陆续。柚子每瓣向心、抱成一团，也即寓意齐心、团结、和睦相处

葫芦 - “葫芦”与“福禄”谐音，寓意美好。茎称为“蔓”，又与“万”谐音，所以“福禄寿”齐全

金瓜 - “金瓜富地落满屋”，金黄色的南瓜，寓意着能给人带来财富

白菜 - “白菜”与“百财”谐音，寓意“百财”，有聚财、招财、发财、百财聚来的含意

香蕉 - 寓意招财

生菜 - “生菜”与“生财”谐音，生菜寓意“生财”

苹果 - “苹”与“平”谐音，寓意“平平安安”

沙葛 - 好意头的年菜

Besides the new year tray, there is our little hamper for parents. While shopping for hampers, we didn't find anything that we like so we bought all auspicious items and display them nicely in this basket prepared by me.

水饺人人都爱吃，年饭尤数饺子香 part 2

Haha, same title but is part 2. This time round, I have Margaret to 包饺子 with me.

Almost there..

Finally!!! 50 of them..

More CNY shopping

at 8 am
Margaret : Wei, wanna go shopping?

Diana : Huh? How come you are here?

Margaret : On leave, you'll see me tomorrow too..Haha

* FULLY AWAKE *

Diana : OKAY! Let's go Sheng Siong & NTUC ! I wanna buy more more more stuff for CNY...

M and I non stop laughing at this little 菜头 raddish, very cute and we find it looks like a rat. M quickly showed it to mum and mum bought it right away.

At the same time, we bought a pair of cute lantern at $3.80

年花 for Chinese New Year

Margaret, mummy and I went to buy flowers on this evening. As usual, we went to Thomson Road. There are many florists and we spent a good 3-hour shopping for flowers without nagging, yeah, daddy will 'talk' so much when come to shopping esp. for flowers and mummy was telling us how nice to shop without him around..you know what, I'm glad Ben is not around too! Hahaha..

Here are our 战利品:

Besides, we also hunt for some racks and stand. Here we got it. Total damage : $58

Total damage for flowers : $32 *I love FEF*

Hush Hush Puppies

It was a wonderful evening and I was on my way to town. *remember my $88 group discussion from Yoursay* I saw a wired-hair Jack Russell Terrier, wandering aimlessly around the garden nearby. I looked around and my sixth sense told me "SHE IS A LOST DOG". Well, I wasn't the only one who felt the same way, a school girl was asking me if I was her owner. Before I could explain to her, little JR decided to walk faster so both of us started to run after her. She was terrified and even ran across the road!

We kept calling her *we named her Ah GIRL* and little ah girl finally stopped...... underneath a VAN.

YES, underneath a moving VAN and I gave signal to the drive to STOP DRIVING! He was kind enough to alight and we all tried to hoax her out, using biscuit. yeah the Kong Guan type. When I said 'we', it means the driver, the school girl, 4 teenagers, a uncle and myself!

She was so smart and cute and when I turned around, there were plentiful of passerby watching the 'wayang'

I quickily called SPCA for help as I was afraid anything may happen to ah girl. When I was making the report, someone actually asked the driver to move his van! Retarded A- Hole F*king idiot old man said ah girl would walk if the van moves.

OF CAUSE I KNOW SHE WOULD BUT I HOPE SHE CAN STAY PUT UNTIL SPCA STAFF ARRIVES, OR ELSE WHO IS GOING TO KEEP RUNNING AFTER HER. We have to confine her at a specific area, what if I lost her

I was fuming and ah girl got frighten and started to run AGAIN. After another 5oo meter, I saw 3 school boys in front

Diana : Boys! please get hold of the dog, 我跑不动了! (I can't run anymore)

They were so nice to help me and little ah girl was too tired to run too, so she sat down around the bush.

Boy 1 : Auntie, 这是你的狗？ (is this your dog ?)

Diana : 我像Auntie 咩？(Do I look like auntie ?)

Boy1 : Eh..Sorry ah, Miss..

Boy 2 : 小姐...

We all burst out laughing !!! Hahahaha... By this time, only left me, ah girl and the 3 boys standing next to Lighthouse Evagelism. I had to call SPCA to update our latest location. Then it started to rain, we carried little ah girl and waited at the void deck.

Finally SPCA staff arrived and we handed the dog to them. Yeah, a bit 不舍得 but still...I didn't manage to get their names, ran out of time but I remember one of the boy's nickname - soya bean!

MANY THANKS TO YOU BOYS !!

I'm going to call SPCA soon to check out if she is doing fine, hope she is just a lost dog but a abandoned dog. Spring Cleaning..sigh..

p/s: I was late for the discussion but I still got the token and felt so good for helping the little one, I just couldn't leave the her out there running alone, hungry and feeling helpless as my Smoochie was once a lost dog too...

..Compliments Compliments..

Hi Diana, your goodies are really yummy ! Me & my hubby really love it. U're really very talented and I enjoy reading your blog. Keep up the good work. Enjoy your holidays and have a wonderful New Year. :-)

Melissa

Have collected the cookies. Can't wait ! Open 1 to try. Its so nice ! Must get my mum to stop me from finishing them all up before CNY.

Irene

Haha, If I continue eating your cookies, I'll be 72kg in no time. You're amazing cook at such a young age. Your cookies so delicious! Will order again from you next time ! Thumbs Up!

Brenda

Hi Diana, they taste great. Husband loves it a lot.

Sylvia