Dong Dong Qiang!

It's been a busy week for me since it is time of the year where all chinese over the world are busy preparing for the 金猪年. For me, my mum will be chasing me to clean up my stuffs and making chinese decorations for my house. So as usual below is my family's creations:

I shall named it as 一飞冲天 or 步步高升.

Apart from making the decoration for my house and family friends, i also went for my facial and pedicure and all prepared for the Chinese New Year. For the past few years, i always have a problem with SJ and that is we would have problem finding suitable new year clothes. However, this year it is surprisingly a different story for me since i have too many new clothes and i bought 1 pants, 1 skirt and 1 blouse again last Friday. I think i can have some thing new for 5 straight days. hehe.

To SJ: I wanted to post on my blog and show you but due to my poor photography skills, I can't since the pictures don't look good and was not very clear. Sorry, you have to come to my house and see if we have the new year visiting this year.

If you think that's all i have been busy with over the past week then you are wrong. Apart from making decorations, it is also my practise to put my baking skills into good use and this year I made Peanut cookies over 2 weekend.

Being the first timer at peanut cookies, it turn out not too bad and it is really much more cost effective as compared to previous where we were slogging making pineapple tarts and chocolate chip cookies.

That's it for my update today. Let me wish u all an early Valentine's Day and Happy Chinese New Year! 恭喜发财，身体健康 and everyone's dream comes true and the 金猪 be a good year for all . :-)

Monopoly Battle

After weeks of unhappiness over at my job, the day is finally here...this was the only motivation that spur me on my job over the past few weeks and that is my gathering at Yovi's house on 3 Feb 2006.

It was a day full of activities starting with:

Blading session at 1130pm. One accomplishment for me was to do a longer lap that i used do **claps**

Grocery shopping for the BBQ at nite.

Followed by swimming with Joan...Based on the photo, you will know who has been seriously working out and who is not. Yah as everyone who knows me know that i am a "汗鸭子" so i was just relaxing at the jaccuzi area. :p

While the both of us are relaxing at the pool side, a nice guy was preparing the BBQ for us.

Though we have some unpleasant experience after our swim which i do not intend to reveal to the readers of my blog so as not to spolit everyone's appetite. One word to all: Please be considerate to others. Afterall, that is a public place. What you did wass just too gross. yucks.

We proceeded to our BBQ with all the food (ie, flower crabs, chicken wing, sausages, fried bee hoon, pork fillet, prawns, sotong, etc) that we brought. (p.s sorry for the lack of photos on the food as i was really starving). Below are some snapshots:

After 2 hours of BBQ, the highlight of the day started and that is the Battle at Monopoly.

Everyone was buying properties and making alliance with others so we can build houses and hotels. It been ages for me since my last board game so it was great fun for me at least.

Guess who is the eventual owner?

The camera-shy ger in Number "10" Jersey. Wonder why she is always so lucky.. no matter what game we play, Mahjong or Monopoly, she is always the ultimate winner.

Finally, we should thanks the owner of the house since she is always kind enough to allow us to go and stay till the wee of the day.

Found this innocent picture of her in my camera. **applause***