LWPS Class of 2012 - CNY Party For the Past Three Years

Date:  Mar 1, 2015

Year 2013

Back in year 2013, where our boys and girls were Primary One.  We had our first CNY gathering at my place.

Mommy queue up in a line, and kids come to grab Ang Pao.

That year, we have two plates of Yu Sheng.

60 people in the photo.  Happy CNY 2013!

We used uncle Chester’s camera... 

And the CNY happy gambling.   Professionally done.  

And I am the dealer back in 2013.

It was a happy year!

Year 2014

Last year, we celebrate the CNY at Dr. Lee Hooi & Ben’s house.

It is two plate of Yu Sheng!

The kids all have to sit on the floor, and mummy goes round and give Ang Pao.

It was a great gathering too.  Counter 47 people in the photo.

Again, we have the traditional CNY gambling.  And I was the dealer.

Year 2015

This year, we have weapons.  Selfie stick.

This year, We have 46 in the photo.  You will notice that

1) All the kids has grown up.

2) Little Cheryl sits on mommy Angeline’s lap for the third year!  

Another Selfie shot.

OK.  Gwen was missing from the group photo.  Uncle Rusdi couldn’t find Gwen.  So, we have one photo here for her.  Hahahahaha

Again, we have two plates of Yu Sheng.

This year, the way how you get Ang Pao is different.  Uncle Shawn (Major Shawn) is giving instructions and explaining how the kids can get Ang Pao this year.

Remember!

1)  You must know who is who’s mommy.  And get Ang Pao from her.  (except for uncle Chester stand in for auntie Alicia)

2)  You must know who’s mommy is it.  So, you write down the child name.

3)  You must say some nice Chinese greetings, and mommy have to verify it.  Put a tick here.

4)  Mommy who gave Ang Pao must acknowledge that you have got the Ang Pao...

Here goes the stressful kids trying to say nice Chinese greetings and walk around to look for Ang Pao givers… ahahaha…  Kids look for mommies to get Ang Pao.

Stress.  But every one made it… hahahaha

Something never changed.  It is me again, at the gambling table.  I am the dealer again.

Happy Chinese New Year 2015!

Huat Ah!

If you look at all the photos for the past 3 years… These are the things that has not changed...

1)  Two plates of Yu Sheng for 3 years.

2)  Uncle Chester is the photographer for 3 years.

3)  Uncle Kenneth is the dealer at the gambling table 3 years in a row.

4)  Either kids or mommy look for each other or queue up for giving Ang Pao or receiving Ang Pao.

5)  Little Cheryl sits on auntie Angeline’s lap for 3 years in a row.  :) 

Let’s hope to do this again next year and year after and year after...

Good company, good friendship!

CNY 2014 - Remembering The Past

Date:  Feb 4, 2014

Jay’s Grand Father found this from antique shop.

It is very common during the 1950’s.  

It run on zero electric city, and it plays music. 

Ever since then, we have been buying the old music tapes from the past, from the Taobao, from the Antique shops.

Boon Ching’s dad can explain and tell the history of the music player … from this to walkman to CD player, to iPod.  Wahaha

He carefully place the music plate (I don’t even know what to call)

And he let’s Jay Jay operate the music player.  Yeah!

(Jay, please be careful, it is an antique!)

So, it runs and plays music that is not so clear.  But hey, it is “high tech” back in 1950’s ok?  Wahahaha

Technology evolves.  

Soon man create robots.

Robot create Skynet.

Skynet destorys...

Oh well… That is still very far in the future.  

Let’s not worry about it.

CNY 2014: Fishing Secrets

Date:  Feb 4, 2014

On the CNY day, we went to Pantai Remis (班台) to visit my wife’s grandma and the rest of the uncles.

It is a small little fishing town.  (Panchok)

Lot’s of fishing boat and fishermen stay here. 

One of the uncle also have fish ponds and prawn ponds.  Let’s go there and visit.

The 7th uncle already prepared a whole bag of prawns for CNY dishes.  Big Thanks!

The kids enjoying holding the prawns in their hand.

Let’s see how they fish the prawns up.

Big prawns plus lots of small shrimps.. baby shrimps.

The 7th uncle explains to the kids how he protects the shrimp’s brain by using some chemical to clear the algae.  Algae is a friend during day time but it is enemy at night.  Because the algae wants oxygen at night competing with the shrimps, so it is no good.  That is why need to clear as many of them away as possible.

Runaway prawn.

Kids love climbing up and down.

Jay Jay get the chance to grab hold of the prawns net and pull it up.  Yeah!

It is very high tech indeed.  There are CCTV watching.  And the feed goes directly to China via broadband.  

This fish pond is a partnership with China company.  The Chinese provides “technology” (or chemicals) and the fish breed and the local partner (7th uncle) provides the fish bed, man power and all the rest of necessary.

In the old ways, they use chorine to kill the algae.  But Chorine is bad for the heart (prawn’s heart), so now the Chinese invented the way to overcome this.  Suppose to be “cleaner” and more “healthier” way.  Hmmmm….

This magic powder put in the fish pond, and it will make the algae solidify, and then floats in solid forms.  So, the next day, simply remove the algae chunks and it will reduce the algae by a lot.

And my wife brought back some for her fish aquarium.  Wahahahaha.

Next we visited the fish pond.  He raised two type of fishes here… 龙虎斑 & 龙胆鱼.

"Wow!  I caught a big one!” (smiling & laughing hard)

Take a look at the video.  Live fish!  The kids love it!

The whole family like this experience on the CNY day.  We going to cook this fish.

Wow!  Huge Fish.  龙虎斑.

The kids love it.

Taking photos with the fish.  Macam like they caught the fish like that.  Wahahaha.

And now, revealing the secret.  Who is the actual one catching the fish.  Wahahaha.

FISHING SECRETS!

This is how 7th uncle caught the fish.

等下给他钓比较爽！(Wahahahahahahahahaha)

As for me.  7th uncle place the fish on the hook and put it in the pond.  So, when we take picture is as we are the one who fish it.

So, 7th uncle explains, a lot of tourists came to his pond, and then, he will do the same thing for them to “catch" the fish.  All of them love it, because they get to take the fishing photos.  And at the end, all of them buy a lot of fish and prawns back for steaming.  Wahahahaha.

When we go back… we clean up the live prawns ...

And steam it...

We cooked 7 pots of steam prawns in 2 days.  That is how much prawns we eaten.

As for the steam fish, it taste like cod fish, nice!

That concludes our special event of CNY.  Very nice experience for the kids.

The CNY Sky Lantern 2014

Date:  Feb 3, 2014

On CNY eve, we fly all our sky lantern into the sky.

We did it last year, this year we did it again.

As you turn your head around, you soon find a lot of family also did the same thing.

We wrote this mainly for the kids, wishing them grow up fast fast.

Flying the sky lantern is not new to the kids, but they love to do it again and again.

This year Kay Kay has grown up.  He stayed up until so late to fly the sky lantern.  It is amazing seeing the kids grew.  A years ago, he cannot “tahan” and went to sleep around 11pm.  

Yeah, this is our sky lantern.  Ready to fly.

And there she goes up up in the sky.

Huat ah!

See how our sky lantern flies.

Another one.

And another one.

And another one.

We simply enjoys it.  

Then, I asked…”Where does all the sky lantern fly to?"

“The candle must be exhausted"

“There shall be no fire then?  Right"

Father inlaw “Of course it will come down to the ground"

Where?

Is it in the jungle?

Is it on the road?

Is it in somebody’s backyard?

… ? ? ?