Gifts from Macau

Uncle Hon and Uncle Phan brought the following gifts for us from Macau.

Dinner with Reles

Aunty Alice’s brothers-in-law and sister-in-law arrived from Macau late last night. They are staying at another relative’s condominium at Alam Damai Condominium, the same place where Mr. Quek Lip Kie and family are living.

Tonight one of their relatives, who is one of the co-owners of May Flower Restaurant invited Aunty Alice and I to have dinner with them.

Since he’s the one of the co-owners, the food he ordered were really special.

We did not have any rice but both Uncle Hon and Uncle Phan from Macau ordered rice cos they have to eat rice at least once a day.

Instead of noodles or fried rice at the end, we each had a bowl of porridge that came with a big prawn, a clam and a big slice of fish. Wow extremely yummy.

Ronald's Farewell

My cousin’s son Ronald will be flying over to Melbourne to begin his tertiary education on Wednesday 29 February 2012 (leap year).

Tonight the whole family had been invited to their house for dinner.

The food was ordered from Supertanker and we feasted on eight dishes ie. Fried Rice with Yam, Lamb Curry, Spring Roll, Roast Duck, ‘Dao Gan’ with Mushroom and Brocolli, Sweet & Sour Pork, Salad Prawns and one more dish which I forgot. Besides all these mouth watering food, there was Roast Lamb as well and this time the skin was crispy.

Before we left, my cousin Anna gave us all these puddings to take home.

Dinner at Cousin's House

Some of my cousins and their family members along with my Aunty Shirley spent the first few days of CNY in Manila. In a few days’ time, aunty along with her eldest son George and his wife Jenney would be heading to Macau, Shenzhen and HK for holidays.

Therefore they decided to have dinner tonight at my cousin Christopher’s house in Likas, which is where Aunty lives as well.

There was overflowing of food as each of my cousins brought one or more dishes to share.

Dinner at Cousin's House

For the past few years, I did not go my cousin’s CNY open house cos of the lectures given to me when a few of them gave me red packet. I just wanted to be spared from that kind of torture.

But this year some of them had gone to a nearby country to celebrate CNY and therefore I decided to go.

This time I did not receive any lecture.

I reckon if someone wanna give red packet, just give. If you feel like you do not want to give, don’t give. Give willingly and spare the lecture. We are all adults for goodness sake.

Good News

My uncle in HK called mum last night to wish her a Happy New Year.

He changed his mind. He is allowing us to stay at his condominium eventhough he and my aunty would be absent during most of our stay there this coming March.

*Happy*

Tiong Hua Funeral Parlour

Canaanland Celebration Leadership Meeting was on tonight but I had to give it a miss.

A few days ago my bro-in-law’s dad passed away and tonight the whole family went to the funeral parlour to pay him the last respect. He was 87 and looked so peaceful.

My BIL was telling us that just before he passed away, he told him to move him from the bed onto the floor. He believed that he would have to carry his bed with him in the next life and that would put a burden on himself.

It was good to see all my sister’s in-laws who were there. We have not seen each other for a few years now and met some relatives for the first time. They said I had lost weight.