CNY 2011

I want to blog about my 2011 CNY before the last day, which is tomorrow. As usual, we will be at Ipoh every Chinese New Year. This year, I managed to persuade my dad, who managed to persuade my mum to let me bring my dog home. I am super happy when daddy called me on my phone and said that I can bring Baby home. Weeee. I bought the muzzle to cover her mouth, so that she can’t bark. My grandfather was the first person to ask me take it off. Followed by the rest of the family. Baby was being pampered in Ipoh by my uncles and aunties, who constantly feed her because they knew that she will perform tricks for them. Hehe.

Let’s start from the beginning shall we?

 

The amount of bags that I brought back to Ipoh. I brought my laptop along because of CSI!! Calvin gave me a few episodes of CSI and other movies, which were more than enough to keep me company during the whole CNY, especially at night. I need 2 bags so that the other one can be use to keep my angpows. I received quite a lot of angpows this year. One thing for sure, people are getting more generous as the amount of RM 5 and RM 10 angpows are higher than RM 1 or RM 2. Of course, the biggest angpow will be from my mummy dearest. Hehe.

 

 

 

For dinner on the day before CNY and the 2nd day of CNY, my whole family went to this restaurant nearby my grandparent’s place for dinner. We have been eating at the same place fore quite a number of years because preparing dinner, especially CNY dinner, for a big group is a difficult task. My grandmother, my mum and my aunty will be in the kitchen the whole day preparing for one day. Since it has been such a troublesome and tiring task, daddy suggested just have our dinner outside. Anyway, on that 2 dinner, I realised that the simplest food is the yummiest food. I rather have simple food as it feels more like home cook, rather than expensive dishes. The prawns and steamed chicken are my favourite dishes for dinner.

 

 

One of the proof that we appreciate good food. Once the waiter/waitress placed the food in the centre of the table, the food was gone in like 2 minutes. Haha. Oh, I realised that I love sea cucumber and mushroom even more over the CNY. Hehe.

 

 

This is one of my favourite dish of all time. Cucumber cooked with chicken gizzard and vinegar. This year, my aunty added other chicken organs as well but I only focus on the cucumber and chicken gizzard. Absolutely yummy. Ipoh is also the only place that have the best ginger “paste” to go with the steamed chicken. I have no idea how they mix it so well, but I absolutely love them.

 

 

On one of the nights, I went karaoke with my aunty’s side relative. No, this is not Red Box or Neway. It is actually in a private club (Shooting club, if I'm not mistaken) where they have karaoke rooms. Our room was huge. 3 LCD tvs mounted on the wall, where the middle one is the biggest. On the side, is a touch screen…. yes, touch screen song selector thingy. Although sounds high tech but I prefer remote control type because like what my uncle and aunty did in the photo, the person have to actually go all the way to the front to select a song. But their songs are quite up to date, I must say. Hehe.

 

Tai kor showed Brandon koko what snowbeer is. Busybody me got to tag along, together with sis and my aunty. I don’t like beer so the coconut was actually for me. Haha. When we talk about beer or drinks, the first thing that usually comes to our mind will be pub. But we did not enjoy this at a pub. Instead..

We enjoyed it at tepi jalan of Kafe Yoon Wah. Haha. This is Ipoh style!! This café is very famous for their snowbeer. They have special refrigerators that keep all the bottled beer and mugs.

 

 

Halfway talking, 4 waiters suddenly carried the tent to the other side of the road. It was really a funny sight, well at least for our table. I quickly snapped this photograph. But the conversation during the drinks about my uncle have to be the winner for the laugh of the way. My aunty laughed so hard that she practically went out of words. My face muscle ache from all the laughing. Nice one.. Hehe.

 

Oh the first day of Chinese New Year, as in 12am, me and my aunty together with my taiko went to the temple for prayers. She went there without fail every year. I tagged along since it was already way past my bed time. The stage brings back good memories of my childhood. This is also the place where the chinese opera played last time. Being so young, of course I couldn’t understand the whole drama well even though it was in Cantonese. The main idea of actually going to the drama with my grandmother is actually to buy the snacks from the vendors just outside the gate. We (me, sis, taiko and 2ko) would walk in and out of this place to get more money from grandma to buy the food that we like. Back then, there was one uncle who sells lotus seeds, still in the flower casing thingy. It is hard to find them nowadays. Ahhhh, those were the days. Hehe.

 

 

CNY is also a great time for gambling. I played mahjong over the CNY and won some money. Was very proud of myself. I even won some money at Sai Weng’s place. I am extremely satisfied with this year winning. Weeee…..

 

 

Baby and my Bak Suet Suet. Photo taken when Baby was sleeping on my lap on the way back to KL. She must be really exhausted because she has dozed off before we reach the highway. I on the other hand, could not sleep at all. I can’t move my leg into a better position to sleep. So I stayed awake the whole journey back and sayang Baby while she was sleeping. I’m sure she’s very happy at Ipoh. Main reason being she does not have to be locked up at the cage 24/7 at the vet. Furthermore, there will be other dogs as well, which make the environment crampy and smelly. Thank you so much mummy for letting me bring Baby back to Ipoh. My heart ache everytime I send her for boarding at the vet. She will be very sad and moody as well, because she knows that she won’t be seeing me for a few days. I guess Baby is so used of having my family around her that it doesn’t matter if we did not play with her the whole day. The most important thing is that we are always around her, regardless what we are doing. All she wants is just to lie nearby us when we are attending to our normal chores and watch us, wait patiently for us (especially me) to give all my attention to her. I love you Baby Ho!! You will always be a part of the Ho family no matter what!!! Hehe.

Happy Chinese New Year people. I wish that everyone will have a prosperous and healthy year ahead. Treasure the people around you more. Don’t forget to do the same to your loyal canine family member as well. Hehe.

~BuHBaI~