It’s Cookie Season
February 18th, 2007
yesterday was the eve of the Chinese New Year. as is the custom, the family and i pottered off to granddad’s place for the reunion dinner last night. it was awesome - we had steamboat, entirely too much seafood and noodles and the most yummilicious prawns ever. and of course, my favourite foochow fishballs :D and lots of beer. and mandarin oranges. and barbequed meat. and CNY COOKIES!!! wheeeeeeeee.
during dinner, us kids sat around the table listening to our uncle spin tales of the 1960’s and the history of their building. they own a little coffeeshop on Peel Rd, and back in the 80s it used to be the place where all the tai ko’s would go to have their ‘table talks’. uncle was full of stories that night -tales of my dad when he was but a young one, or tales of parangs and severed body parts - and he had us either in stitches or in wide eyed horror.
my mom and i both wore a red top to dinner, and my brothers looked at us weird. “this kind of tradition you all still follow??” they said with raised eyebrows. we had no idea that red was already out of vogue.
there is so much more about cny that i wanna blah about, but the truth is it’s 4pm and i’ve just woken up. i’ve missed half of the first day of Chinese New Year!!! and so i’ve gotta go.. to go do my rounds of angpow-collecting and mandarin orange chomping. heehee.
happy Chinese New Year!
13 Comments Add your own
1. Kevin | February 18th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Happy Cny ah pau =), I’ll be calculating the amount of ang pau money I’ve lost over all these years =(
2. reallybites | February 18th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
happy chinese new year babe!
3. Waifon | February 18th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Have a good one pinks! New hopes, new resolution and an entire new page for a better life, a better year :D Happy Chinese New Year! *throws confetti*
4. alea | February 18th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Happy chinese new year babe =D have a prosperous one !!
5. FeR | February 19th, 2007 at 1:18 am
Happy Chinese NEw Yearrr!!!
6. TheRealAnonymous | February 19th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Gong Hei Fatt Choy~! =Þ
Enjoy urself in Phuket aight? Blog bout it!
7. vvens | February 19th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
happy chinese new year!! :)
take more more more and MORE angpau! :)
8. pinkpau | February 19th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
kevin : awwww nevermind i collect on ur behalf :P
reallybites : same to u! faster gimme peanut cookies
waifon : whee! :D happy cny too!
alea : same to u!
fer : happy cny to u toooo!
therealanon : leaving tomorrow :( siens. dont want to go!!!
vvens : muahahaha i will :D
9. KiShan | February 19th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
linked to your page through rice bowl journals. Nice site, I like the simple theme. Happy Chinese New Yr. 新年快乐. Your post made me a little homesick, and made me realize how much $ I’m going to miss out on haha
10. Johann | February 19th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Happy Chinese New Year darling pau pau wifey! :)
11. TheRealAnonymous | February 20th, 2007 at 3:46 am
haaar… why suddenly dowan to go? =( Phuket is a nice place for a getaway whurt… =) I’m sure u’ll fit in just fine… everybody’s so friendly there.
Wished I could be there too, at least I could do a bit of showing u around… got to know where to get nice local food. =Þ oh well… no fate lerz. keke…
12. pinkpau | February 20th, 2007 at 3:54 am
kishan : awww i’m sending some cny lurve your way! let me guess, those chinese chars read xin nian kuai le.
johann : and the same to you, my darling future husband!!! yuk korn forever.. :D
therealanon : just dont feel like leaving kl during CNY. im missing so much fun ok!
13. MichelleSY | February 20th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Happy CNY!
When I saw the pic I thought: that’s what I need for the lunar new year - Pinkpau in a jar!!!!!!! =P
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