Happy Chinese New Year!!

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!!

Yesterday (eve of CNY) was the first time in my life that i've ever had to attend 2 reunion dinners.. and also the first time in 19 years that i had to pig myself out silly.. imagine.. 2 8-course meals in less than 3 hours..

The traditional one that takes place every CNY at seremban started at 5pm .. that's right... in the evening.. i think it was more of a reunion tea-time than a reunion dinner... however there's a sad part... my relatives seem to be shrinking.. i can still remember when i was a child.. reunion at seremban was a huge thing.. the kids would be playing with the pop-pop mini firecrackers (if you can call them firecrackers) while the adults cook.. then everyone would sit down for dinner and there would usually be 2 shifts because of the amount of people... nowadays however.. there's only about a little more than 10 of us.. and we just sit down, eat and then pack off home.. no one talks.. there's no gambling, no reminiscing over the old times.. no nothing. i was telling that to my dad today and asking him why the 'dinner' seemed to be getting earlier and earlier.. he made a joke about it saying that it's on account of us being able to go home faster... har har.. how typical.

anyway, when i came home, there was a second reunion dinner waiting for me compliments to you my mom.. see, my uncle is back here from australia so we decided to have reunion dinner for my grandmother.. i think she hasn't had one since my uncles packed up and migrated to Oz, which was about 18 years ago.. imagine.. an old lady at home on CNY eve alone...
food was abundant though.. i think my mom really outdid herself this year.. there were about 8 dishes...plus some horrible yucky smelling pork belly soup... erk...


The start of the meal.. check out the 8-course dinner.. largest dinner my mom has ever cooked


30 minutes later.. still so much food on the table + a bottle of lambrusco courtesy from yours truly

it was a nice change however.. for the first time ever.. i had what seems like a real proper CNY reunion dinner.. where everyone say down and talked about old times and new times and everything in between... *bliss*

may it be like this next year and for the years to come...