Chinese New Year 2012

Its the time if the year again...where the married ones have to give ang pao to the those singles.

The most precious time during this festive season is not in collecting money...it's the joy in family reunion. This is one of those times where we can see all the family members coming back from wherever they are around the world and reunite and of course enjoying the food served during CNY as well.

Let me show you all some of the dishes that we enjoy...and of course family photos.

The Cheah Clan

We wish everyone a healthy & prosperous new year ahead!

XoXoXo

My simple birthday

This year my birthday falls on the eve's eve of Chinese New Year. We manage to get our flight just one day before ny brithday so we can celebrate together in Penang.

We just went out for lunch at Sushi King Queensbay Mall.

Enjoying our lunch since we can't find Sushi King in Singapore.

Walk around. I wanted ti watch Underworld : The Awakening but then its 18PL. So that's when we decided to go to Redbox to sing our hearts out.

4 of us, we only paid for 2. Buffet dinner included...so worth it. Belle is below 1.4m, so she get to sing and eat for free. Bella... born in the year of dragon... also get to sing and eat for free. Only the 2 old snakes, above 1.4m have to pay for the full price to sing and eat.

The unknown singers in the Cheah family.

The food wasn't that fantastic but at least there are varieties of food. We sang, screamed our lungs out for a few hours before meeting up with my friends at Presint 10 (hope i spelled it correctly). Its a new place in Penang so we decided to go and have a look around.

Well....that's about it on how my day was spent. No presents for me this year...just food...Lol (typical Chinese always like that wan...any occasion also eat only).

Hmmm....maybe I should just go get myself something then claim. Hehehehe.

XoXoXo

All ready for Chinese New Year!

It's just a few days away from Chinese New Year.  Hubby is in Penang cleaning our house while me and my girls, Bella & Belle is still in Singapore. We will only be going back to Penang on the 20th January 2012. A day before my birthday. We are all so excited.

There are so many things that I like when it's CNY. Firstly, its the FOOD of course. Then, the GAMBLING, followed by the gathering of family members from all over, the gossips, the ang pao's (of coz I will not be the one on the receiving end) and the fire crackers! I have always loved family gatherings. Makes me happy.

This year we did all our CNY shopping in Singapore. First year here and so far it's all good. Bella is in her new school and is adapting well. She joined Brownies in school. She wanna join her school trip to Taman Negara in KL on March holidays. She enjoys her piano classes.

Sheri have to take her S-AEIS exam in Feb 2012. She's currently in Hanbridge school. She love going for her vocal classes. Hope she passes her exam in Feb then it would be a lot easier for me, as their designated driver for now.

For this post there won't be any pictures. My camera is not working as well as before so I'm actually looking forward in getting a new one. I have my eyes on Sony NEX C5. My options are still open....still looking for the best deal. So if any of you have any suggestions please....please tell me.

Niways....Happy Chinese New Year everyone!
Here's an Ang Pow for everyone. Wishing you a happy and prosperous new year!

XoXoXo

Family fun time!

We all love family outings. Be it just a dinner together or just a weekend of fun as the whole family.

Tonite we decided to go to Resort World Singapore for dinner. Chinese gourmet food. Like I always said, a picture says a thousand words. So, behold...

After dinner, the waiter told us that there will be a performance. Its free. So why not. Its called the crane dance. Everyone was enjoying the show till at one point when the wind was so strong...we were all soaking wet from the water. I call it blessing from the crane for this new year.

Then right after that, the security guard told us there's another show in the lake of dreams. Another free show for the night, our lucky day or what. Of course we wont miss out. Not that interesting tho but it's ok since its free.

We all had a good time. We ate, we laughed, we get soaked up and we are happy. That's all that matters.

So goodnite all. Sweet dreams.

XoXoXo

New Year Eve @Marina Bay Sands

On the day itself...we were all worried that Dallon Cheah won't be able to make it back in time coz he went over to JB. Luckily he did.

We then head off to Marina Bay Sands at around 5:30pm. We stacked biscuits and chips ans chocolates in the car...all prepared to battle the new year eve's jam. As we head out...the traffic was clear. We reached MBS and found a parking space, all in less than 30 mins. (Makes me feel so kiasu all of a sudden)

Since we are early, we decided to walk around and kill some time. We decided to Kraze Burger for dinner.

Then after dinner, we went to the Narnia exhibition. Which makes us all wanna watch the movie all over again. Hehehe saja.

About 9:30pm, we quickly went out to the deck where the fireworks will take place. My gosh...the place is packed. The seating area is closed by the time we got there. But then luckily, Dallon managed to get us in. So we sat there playing monopoly deal and game of life for 2 hours.

The fireworks was amazing. It was worth the wait. This is the first time we celebrated New Year's eve in MBS. Both Bella and Belle were so tired that they fell asleep when our car was still in the car park (jam for almost 30 mins before can get out).

Happy New Year to all. May this year brings you good health, abundance of wealth and happiness!!!

XoXoXo

Bella's Birthday!

It's my little princess Bella's birthday. This year she decides to to celebrate her birthday in Universal Studios Singapore. (well...why not since it's very near to where we are staying.) 

I can't believe that time flies so fast. My babies are growing up too fast!! (I guess every mother would say that!) This time around is our second time going to USS. 

Standing in front of the Universal Studio's Globe.

Bella's cousin, Chez is also going together with us this time. 

The Madagascar ride.

The Madagascar Merry-Go-Round.

Shrek's Door!

Our lunch. Nothing fantastic but then something to fill our tummy before we ran out energy.

We all taking a snapshot with Frankenstein.

Characters from The Mummy. (Look at those abs!)

Timeless beauty...Ms. Marilyn Monroe.

After taking picture with Marilyn Monroe, Dallon becomes Darilyn Monroe.  

Dallon's favourite character I suppose. A picture is definitely not enough for him. 

Then we decided to take some family pictures before we call it a day.

We had so much fun. We didn't have to line up for a long time for any rides. They went on the Cylon roller coaster for more than 10 times I think. This time around is definitely a better experience than our first time here (cause that time was school holiday and the place was jam pack like crazy!) So, please take our advice, don't come during school holidays, that's if its possible of course. If you can't help it then, just enjoy as much as you can.

After that we went to Secret Recipe in Vivocity for our dinner before heading home for my birthday girl to cut her cake.

Bella's Birthday cake.

A family picture.  :)

We always try to take a family picture whenever we can. Simply because we cherished the times we spent together. Another reason is we can see how our babies grow before our eyes each time a picture is taken. Therefore, I always tell both Bella & Belle, it doesn't matter where we are, as long as we are together, everything will be fine because we will always have each other to count on.

Well...I know in this post I didn't say much. It's because I feel that the pictures is enough to tell the stories in USS. Have a good day everyone.

XoXoXo

Phuket Getaway.

This trip to Phuket was a last minute decision. We knew that it was a low season in Phuket but what we didn't expect is that it would rain every day when we're there.

Despite the damp weather, we still enjoyed ourselves. That's the holiday spirit talking here.

The birds-eye-view of Phuket

Amazing isn't it?

Once touchdown the at the Phuket airport, both of us were SUPER excited cause it's our first time in here. See our happy face? Hehehe

We didn't know that Phuket is also celebrating the "Kew Ong Iah" vegetarian food festival. It's a big yearly event in Penang where everyone would enjoy vegetarian food at a cut-throat price and happily paying for it. (Siao, right?)

Coming back to Phuket, the private taxi that we took to our hotel in Patong Beach costs us THB 650. It's about 30 - 45 mins drive. On the way to our hotel, out taxi driver stopped at her tour office, where one of her colleagues managed to sell us some day tour. (Lucky for us they are not con men/ladies)

We bought 2 day tours. 

When we reached our hotel, we were like...Waaaaa. It's exactly like what they say in the website. Alfresco Boutique hotel. Nice and cozy little hotel.

I like how the hotel is designed. They uses only RED and BLACK. My favorite color!!! YAY!! Simple and elegant, just the way I like it. The pool is amazing!

We LOOOOOOVEEEEE the room!!  :) Makes me feel right at home the moment we stepped in. For the price that we are paying (comes with breakfast as well), it's definitely one of the best deal we've gotten so far! Highly recommended!! Practically there's nothing bad about the hotel.  <3 <3 <3

We definitely had a good night sleep cause it was raining the whole time. The best time to stay in the hotel and catch up on our lost ZZzzZZzzzz's.

Day 2 - ATV and elephant ride.

The ATV ride was only for 30 minutes. Not that fun though. Then after that we walked to the elephant camp which is just 5 minutes away from the ATV camp. The stench of the elephant poop were bad. Ugh! We didn't get to take pictures of us on the elephant cause we refuse to buy the things that the trainer offered to us, then, he also refuse to take pictures for us. Sigh. 

After that we head straight back to the hotel, where we went straight for shopping. We rented a motorcycle for only THB 250 for 24 hours. We have to wear a raincoat most of the time cause it was raining cats and dogs. All I can say is...it's a WET & FUN holiday.

Day 3 - Phi Phi Island

Then the next day we went for the Phi Phi Island tour. It was raining the whole time but the beach is still packed with tourists. Didn't manage to get loads of pictures because our camera is not water proof camera. (We forgot to buy the water proof casing). We did snorkeling as well, but then it was a big disappointment. (Think prolly Pulau Redang would be a better place to snorkel)

The beach is packed with tourists....funny people who would wear a bikini then a raincoat. I was like...WTH??? What is the point of wearing a bikini if you don't wanna get wet, right? Well....I guess all kinds of people exists. Hehehe.

Well, for the shopping over there, I would say it's exactly like what we have in Batu Feringghi, Penang. Every single thing have to be bargained. Every single shop is selling the same thing. So we just bought a few things as souvenirs for Bella & Belle.

There's this mall, JungCeylon, which is just 5 minutes drive from our hotel which is WOW! Loads of things but then everything is "supermarket pricing". Who would wanna buy expensive stuff when just across the roads there are tons of imitation goods. (Probably only Penangites would think in such a way).

See the picture of me holding a cup "Blizzard"? The ice cream is to-die-for! They have to serve it upside down or it's free! Cool right? I ordered the Mocha Almond flavor.  :D (Have to have some Ice cream to make me happy right? Since the weather is sooo gloomy)

Day 4 - Back to Penang.

We checked out from the hotel at 2pm. The ride to the airport was about an hour due to the heavy traffic. I guess TRAFFIC JAM and RAIN comes hand in hand, no matter which part of the world you are in.

We bid Phuket goodbye. Will definitely come back again with my Bella & Belle.

XoXoXo