Gong Xi Fa Cai!!! Happy CNY!

Another entry that was drafted like donkey years ago but never got round to finishing it

Ok totally shacked - thank goodness we didn't have to go visiting hehehe. All my uncles, aunts and cousins came over to our place (cos my mom is the head of the family). Why am I shacked I hear you asking...well I went to sleep at like 5 am this morning, woke up at 7 am to wake my mom up and then slept another 2 hours. Here's why the late night...

Was over at Lynn's for reunion dinner last night. Didn't get home till about 11 pm. My mom had said that she had done most of the cleaning, all that needed to be done was for her to clean her bathroom, washdown the corridor in front of our apartment (in case you didn't know it's cement) and mop down our utility balcony. So while she cleaned her bathroom, I did the other two things - I had already cleaned, vaccummed and mopped my room and cleaned my bathroom before heading over to Lynn's. Once I was done with those two chores I noticed that the kitchen sink, dish drying area and the entire counter top had not been cleaned!!! To add on to that the windows near the sink weren't clean either and they had a layer of grease on them (my mom loves to use a lot of oil in her cooking and doesn't believe in the clean as you go). Took me a while to clean them (thank goodness for hot water and detergent) as well as the sink and counter top. Just as I wanted to leave the kitchen I noticed the top of the fridge hadn't been cleaned (We have a small fridge so the top is sort of like at eye level), so yet another thing to do. I think it was almost 1 am by the time I finished. Once I was done with that, I was in my room sewing profusely (ok so my sewing machine was sewing profusely and I was helping it lol) I had started working on my long shorts/short pants earlier in the day but cos my mom kept on bugging me I still hadn't finished. Because I don't have a serger I was using a french seam to deal with the fraying of the fabric (see here for explanation). Anyway I finally finished making my long shorts/short pants at about 4 am and then watched tv for a bit till I crashed at 5 am.

Here are some pictures I took of my long shorts/short pants...can't decide which they are lol. Oh I used little buttons for "decoration".





Woke up at 9 so that I could help my mom get stuff ready cos all the relatives were coming over so while my mom cooked up a storm in the kitchen I was adding ang pows to the pussy willow, hanging up plastic foldable pineapples, arranging paper plates and plastic forks and spoons, and putting the drinks in the cooler.

My mom managed to finish all the cooking by about 10.00 and then went for a shower, once she was showered and changed I headed into the shower - no washing of hair, which is majorly troublesome because my hair is really long now (almost middle of my back) and it was a very humid morning. Lynn, Ismon, Adam and my dad were supposed to arrive at 11.30 but they didn't show up till 12.30!! Luckily none of the relatives had arrived yet, in fact they only started arriving at about 1 pm so the timing worked out just fine. In the end there was 19 family members there (including me of course) and later on a future family member joined us. I say future because my cousin Jeremy is getting married in May so his fiancee joined us later after she had finished her visiting with her family - she lives not far from my place. Everybody eventually left at around 4 pm, well all except for Lynn, Ismon, Adam and dad, they hung around till about 6 pm. Forgot to take pics while the whole clan was around but did take these...

Adam just plum tuckered out

Ismon, Dad and Adam - the aftermath of CNY First Day =)

The pussywillow display

Spent the rest of the evening/night watching tv (lots of Taiwan New Year specials woohoo) and eventually crashed around midnight
Ventelated by MeiBao @ 11:59 AM