So, we decided no more surprises after the usual headaches we used to have twice a year (none other than Mother’s Day and the Queen’s birthday). This time we made her sit down and wait for hours before we served lunch. What’s on the dining table?

Main course: Butter pork (no one bought chicken so we had to settle with pork), bak kut teh, canned abalones, sambal kangkung (was there sambal?), omelette with char siew (bbq pork), plain fried rice with onion.
Dessert: Vanilla ice-cream (by keller handmade)

The big chef for the day was *drum roll* Pei Yee. She spent more than 4 hours in the kitchen and came up with all the dishes in the main course list except for the fried rice. I specially requested that I would contribute the fried rice. I insisted this to be on the menu although someone else suggested that I should be assigned to take the Queen out for few hours so that the little chefs could prepare the food. The person who assigned this task to me cited that I could not even fry an egg! That was how the small surprise was being called off.

The bak kut teh tasted so ewww. I hate herbs. The butter pork seemed alright but the pork was too hard. The sambal kangkung tasted like sambal kangkung. The canned abalones were so salty!! The omelette tasted best for me! The ice-cream was not bad at all although the texture can be smoother. The plain fried rice with onion tasted like… plain rice with onion.

Happy Mother’s Day, my ma cha!! :-*

..the journey continues.

And.. *drum roll*
Our main objective for visiting the Agriculture Park was..

Come, come! RM3 per hour! RM1 for every additional hour.

We were so ambitious as we wanted to go cycling for 2 hours. Little did we know that it was so, so tiring.. we did not even finish the exact first hour, we probably did 50 minutes or so hehe.

All of us had to try on various bicycles to find the most suitable one for us. We got so fed up with Ling cha for taking such a long time to test!

Fuiyoh! Bergaya kan? Getting ready to begin our expedition!

Budak kampung at Taman Padi.

Ma cha ber-jiwang at Taman Padi.

No smile? Act cool?

Cycling uphill was a very challenging task. Everyone resorted to pushing their bicycles up :D

Cycling downhill was so fun!

After the bicycle expedition, we stopped by at Uncle Vincent’s house at Seri Hartamas to collect angpows!

Bottom, from left: Aunty and Uncle Vincent
Top: On the left is James (Uncle’s handsome boy #1) and on the right is Jeremy (Uncle’s handsome boy #2)

That was the end of my Chinese New Year holidays.. =(

The long holidays ended so quickly without me noticing.
Nevertheless, it was a fun one :-)

This year’s Chinese New Year was slightly different in that we did not do our usual extended family get-together due to our Aunt’s passing. However, we did our usual movie-day on the first day of Chinese New Year (an 11:30PM show) and this time we picked – My Astro 大日子 Woohoo! It’s a movie that will not disappoint you when you think of.. local production. We had lots of fun in the cinema. Mom began her laughing marathon as soon as the movie started. Ling cha and I went, errr?, staring at Mom.

Reunion dinner meal

Me and my Mom

Mom’s prepared to welcome the God of Wealth!

Two games of Grabbles after the dinner.
Malay version winner was.. *drum roll* ME!!
English version winner was.. *boo* I think it’s Bit cha, right?

Found this note stuck in front of CK’s desk when I reached home in the morning

Lunch at Pizza Hut *dipaksa bergambar*

Bitcha did not have a photo taken with the Birthday Boy as she was sitting at the opposite.. posing with her reflection instead

Our pizza! We did lots of Chinese New Year shopping after lunch..

..until we got thirsty and tired, and we settled at Mc Donald’s for ice-creams

Back at home, posing with the shirt I got him for his birthday!

Happy Birthday, Kong cha!

The boy will turn 18 tomorrow. Wow, time flies.
Although being the youngest in the family, he never failed to show his maturity, be it in terms of respecting elders, never waste his food, spending money carefully, doing household chores and taking care of the house.
Except for.. not being able to make his own milo and only allowing Pei Yee to bully him.

Although both of us have a 9 years gap… it never felt like one.
We shared the same interest in toy cars, musical instruments (my past-tense), badminton and being the quieter ones in the family. These, used to be our conversation topics but as time goes by, the baby boy grew older. Now, he talks about his vacation with his friends, his studies and the more serious stuffs like asking you for your opinion on what should he do next after graduating from secondary school.

I used to be so worried about him once upon a time. I was worried that he would turn into a bad apple after stepping into secondary school because of peer pressure and all, but he proved me wrong (I hope). I guess he passed the “test”. Let’s see what he gets in the real exams.

This was taken just 2 weeks ago :D

Leaving for home in about two hours from now to celebrate his birthday!

Happy Birthday, my dear brother.
You know we all love you :-)