Haha ok most of you won't know why it's special to celebrate that day also.
Cos I also dunno why special haha

Here in China, people celebrate the date so yep XD

But before that...
On 初四, It's my cute nephew's birthday!
His first birthday haha
One year old le!!!
Congratz~

Happy First Birthday to You~~~

So before we get started on celebrating...


"O.O what's happening" Says the baby. *Scratches head*

Then,

A little change of clothes..

If you watched Russel Peters, it's his favourite expression! haha (Who's this)

And,

A little fooling around :P

Puffy Cheeks! Now it's his favourite expression XDXD

Come on everybody, let's do it together!

XDXD

Finally,

His cake!


Happy Birthday to you~


So after the usual cake thingies, there's a bit of the ceremonious ritual that must be done during his first birthday.

Haha sounds so cult-ish

Yep so during his first birthday, he must pick one of the items on the table.

They are..
1. A toy
2. A book
3. A pen
4. Food
5. Money!

The item that he picked first will say something about his future.

And so... he picked...

FOOD!!!

And..

He's happy about it!

Haha so picking food means that he won't have to worry about being hungry. A damn luxrious life! No need work for food.

I picked food as well haha ^^

Haha so that's the end of his bday celebration!


Moving on to 初五!

Actually it's almost the same as the CNY celebration haha
Fireworks EVERYWHERE again!

But then, this time the fireworks not as nice as the previous ones haha
Probably cos used up the nice ones during CNY already lol

Haha this is gonna be a similar post to the CNY one

First


And


These two collages sums up most of the fireworks

Got a few I wanna highlight as well.


One of the nicer ones


Another one


Yet another one haha

The following were taken just right after it explodes:


Coolll XD


Niceee


Wow

So yep haha that's all there is to the fireworks~

Whoa nowadays Internet is so scarce..
Been robbed of the net for so many days already.
Reason being, I'm back at my granny's house and it's quite rural here.
Even in Beijing there's a rich-poor divide lol.
Can see that their income gap is quite big.

Ok enough of the ridiculous rants haha too much econs.

First and foremost, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!
WOO HOO HERE COME MY ANG POWS!

On the day before CNY, which is the day of the reunion dinner, the fireworks here began like since morning and going on non-stop for the entire day.

Then at night, the air reeked of fireworks smell.
There's fireworks EVERYWHERE and ANYWHERE.
It's like national day in Singapore already.
Free fireworks everywhere you go.
Damn niceeee!!!

But... On the flipside, it's damn noisy.
I cannot take it lol
Booom Boom Boom.

It's like China having a war or something lol
Like landmines everywhere.

And then, at midnight, 2 HOURS OF NON-STOP FIREWORKS
EVERYONE came out and lit fireworks. That includes me :D
Got a video footage of the fireworks session haha
Will upload it a few days later when I get the file.

So here we go! The fireworks!


I think this is the best fireworks I've seen!


Fireworks!


More fireworks!!

So basically, I got to see free fireworks here and get to lit some :D

Out of all the fireworks, there are a few I need to highlight.

The BEST and NICEST fireworks.


Something out of the ordinary


And your ordinary fireworks.


Red fireworks following the CNY fest ^^


I still love the first one though XD
I even set it as my desktop wallpaper haha too nice!

So that's all for the CNY eve.

AND

Finally, it's CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!

To start things off, we ate a bowl of dumplings haha
One of it contain a coin
Whoever eats it get to have a prosperous year this year haha
But the sad thing is, I didn't get to eat it :(

Look at my cute cousin haha, dressed for the occasion!


And then...
We begin our ANG POW BEGGING.
YES BEGGING.

Over here, you must BEG to get your angpows haha
Ok la not beg la but.. you gotta kneel down and kowtow and say some good stuffs to the elders to get the angpows.
All the four word four word idioms lol

So.. first up, beg for angpows from the oldest generation adults.
The sequence to beg goes from the oldest to the youngest. So I started first.

Me begging for my ang pows.


Cousin getting angpows


Another cousin getting angpows


And finally.. My cute nephew! XD


Then, next up, the second wave haha

I started first again.


Then her again.


Then him again.


And then... got one funny moment haha



He don't wanna beg for it so he cried.

And btw, he's my UNCLE.
YES UNCLE.

All the generation thingy. So confusing.

To top things off.

I got alot of ang pow money!!
I should like come here every CNY haha
Cos I get lots more here.
Like 5x more!!! :)

Finally,
I will end this post with...


^^

Regarding the Ikea trip in my plurks..


Swedish meatballs!!! :D

Yep haha that's what I've been eating there :)

So basically, today I went to eat good food again haha

For today...
SHARK'S FIN mwahahhaha

Ate Shark's Fin at Thai Village in China lol
Damn niceeee
Best Shark's Fin I've ever eaten.
And this time, it's the real deal!
Not some 2 bucks thing at pasar malam lol
Those fake ones made of bee hoon

This one the fins are in chunks ^^


The awesome shark's fin XD

Then after that, my mom ordered another dish.
The Sea Cucumber lol
Not cheap also.
Texture similar to jelly
Quite tasty
But I still prefer Shark's Fin haha


First two are the Sea Cucumbers, the last one's a mushroom haha

Then, went back home to take care of the ever-so-cute-but-annoying-when-he-cry baby.
Haha such a long description.


So cute right XDXD

Quite tiring actually haha.


Me taking care of the cutesy ^^
P.S. He looks unhappy :(

Haha so that's all for this post!
Hope you guys are salivating when you see the pics :P

P.S. All the pics are taken from my iPhone so not very clear haha sorry

Yep haha
Went to skii again!
Skiing is such an addictive sport!
I'm so loving it :D

Since it's gonna be a repeat post, there's only 2 pictures haha

Ok, went there earlier today like before lunch.
Skiied until 2+ then had lunch.

Lunch there = expensive :(
Ate spaghetti and drank milk tea = 60rmb.
Convert that to SGD = $12

But no choice. Can only dine there.

Then continue to skii until 8.30 at night :)

Basically my route for today is mainly at the intermediate track. Yay!
I love the speed at the track.
It's so thrilling :D

At the intermediate track, the slope is steeper (duh!).
And that gives speed and thrill!

Got a coach from 6-8 again haha
This time I got a super friendly coach ^^
The previous one was busy teaching other students so I got this one instead.
We like chatted at almost every cable car ride up the slope haha

Skiing at night has it's advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages are that it's cheap lol
Also, since it's colder at night, some snow freezes to ice.
And that gives more speed.

Disadvantages...
Since it's ice, it's hard to control your speed.
And then... you fall.
And, it's dark.
And, you get owned by all the pros. :(

The thing is, when you skii at night, you get to see all the pros skii at the intermediate track. And their skills are WOAH!

Dunno why the pros only skii at night lol

So after the skii, I took pics with coach haha

A friendly pose :)

Then...

Stunt that coach taught me! XD

So cool right? haha
Not easy to do cos you need to balance very well on one leg.
Sounds easy but it's not haha trust me.
Cos I fell a few times learning it.

And that's all for this repeat post.
Till next time I skii.
Looking foward to it ^^

Before I indulge myself in the awesome lunch meal I had...



^^

My awesome ever so cute but annoying nephew which I'm taking care off everyday lol
It's ever so tiring =.=

Nevertheless, we went for lunch with him.
First time bringing him out in the winter haha

So location?
An ITALIAN restaurant!



Yep this is going to be a food post for the first part ^^

First up, BREAD lol



Don't underestimate the bread here!
It tastes amazingly nice!
Got different spread for you some more.

Next, I ordered a Seafood Soup in tomato broth.



Nice rich taste!

Appetizers? RISOTTO!!!



If you haven't tried risotto before, GO TRY IT!
The rice is semi-hard with a bite in it.
Not the traditional rice you eat at home.

Finally the main course!



Yeah I ordered a wrong main course haha.
This one I forgot the name le.
Some pasta. I wanted spaghetti though :(

No dessert cos too full haha

So to aid digestion, we went for a walk in the mall.
Took some pics with the cute baby :)