My Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year just ended so I decided to make an entry about how I spent my CNY. I used to not feel excited at all about CNY when I was in secondary school, I'm envious of all my friends who are thrilled about CNY as they get to gather with their cousins and play games or even gamble together. I'm the eldest in both Papa Lau & Mama Lau's side, meaning all my cousins are younger than me AND they don't "gamble", they don't play poker cards. I never knew how to play poker card game, even Black Jack. I always felt like I'm stuck somewhere in between adult and children. I couldn't fit in my parents' conversations with my aunts and uncles, I couldn't bring myself to join the games my cousins play too, thinking it's too childish. I was awkward.

I couldn't believe I hadn't been to Taiping the whole 2015! Mama Lau would bring us back to Taiping on school holidays especially CNY. However, last year we spent our CNY in Japan (which I blogged about too, check out the "Japan" label). My school holidays were different from my sisters' so I didn't get to follow them back. This year, things felt very different. I enjoyed CNY a lot with my cousins at Taiping.

I guess I grew up.

*forcing myself not to laugh at this "sentimental" moment*

I enjoyed watching the adults talk. I enjoyed watching the children play. I enjoyed looking after my baby cousin.

Scroll on and let the photos do the talking shall we.

Matching !

Before heading to my grandparents' place, we stopped by Spritzer Ecopark which was opened last year only. It is quite an ideal retreat to spend the day with family or friends out in the sun but fret not, you will be sheltered by trees so you won't risk a sunburn.

we were welcomed by monkeys!

It's Monkey year anyways haha how auspicious eh?

we didn't stay there for too long as I missed my grandparents haah so we didn't get to play the golf,
I would totally love to come and revisit it!

I like em positive vibes!

I got a souvenir from the mosquitoes oh well.

part of the spritzer products.

We bought the fibre water (purple tall bottle in the middle)

Our traditional CNY eve steamboat as our reunion dinner.

fishballs & meatballs are always the kid's fav haha

more meat and seafood for the adults

this muruku-like thing is not muruku and doesn't taste like it too but man it is hard to stop eating it once you stop.
I somewhat think that my grandpa always have the best food.

Mee sua as breakfast on the first day of CNY is also our tradition!

my Grandpa will wake up and boil eggs for all of us in the morning while my aunts cook the noodles.
So much love <3

More home cooked meals prepared by my lovely aunts. It must have been not easy to cook for over 20 people. Thank you, Aunt Wendy & Aunt Desi! The meals were wonderful.

~~I would love to help them out but I was too obsessed with En ._.~~

the gold design is so nice!

meet my grandpa <3

kids these days bond via games on iPad haha

Meet En. She's our youngest member.

How can you not fall in love with her?

such posers haha

This is priceless :')
Our very first family photo. Taken by my a5100 on timer hahas.

Did I mention the fact the my aunt Doreen from Singapore came to Taiping for CNY this year? What a lovely surprise as Uncle Edwin is usually busy on CNY. They took the effort to travel on the car for half a day to spend CNY with us for the first time and left the next day as Priscilla will be having classes. It was really nice to have everyone together :')

P's Malaysia is super nice, always got a lot of holidays haha.