Gong Xi Fa Cai 2014!!!

A warm greeting from us!!!

Gong Xi Fa Cai to everybody!!! Hope everybody had a fabulous time, as we did, ushering the "Horse" and "Cai Shen" into your homes!

Whole year, throughout the year, we all busied ourselves with our blooming businesses and building promising career prospect. 

It is during Chinese New Year, the time we leave everything else, come home for a reunion and family gathering. 

I think this is a superb wonderful tradition!

And when a diverse people of different ages and backgrounds with varying interests and opinions gather around the table for that scrumptious BIG dinner, what more perfect time to update each other lives and some *ahem* kepoh-ing session.... It is hard to describe the feeling one gets around such large group of people you call family. I mean those extended ones la... A mixture of amusing excitement, curiosity, monotonous boredom, anticipation and even some mockery fun. More often than not, many of us have one of those aunts who makes life a little more interesting, a little more entertaining, who likes to ask dozens of awkward yet embarrassing questions (that most of us are also secretly dying to find out but are too courteous to ask!). 

Like asking the ones in school, what grades are they getting.
And those working ones, how much are they earning.

Like asking those single ones, if they have girlfriends or boyfriends yet.
And those dating ones, when are they getting married.

Like asking those married ones, when are they going to get pregnant.
And those with baby, when is the second one coming.

And if you think you dodge the bullets as you have done all above, oh not so fast, they will ask, when and if you are planning to get a bigger house or car. Hah!

But trust me, you don't want them to skip you either! Because you WILL feel left out if you are the only cousin not getting asked those questions. Hahahahha.... *sad lame*

Every year, we celebrate CNY in the same manner. 

But this year is a little more enjoyable and memorable.
Because we are bringing back Baby Maya home for this joyous occasion!!!
And I have been looking forward to this for many many weeks! Ever since I started "shopping spreed" her CNY clothes!

All our relatives are eager to see this little angel of ours. :DDDD 

The best part, proudly presenting her in her cute pretty new clothes and collecting angpaos for her!!!

Okay. Enough talk. Let's see some pictures!

Packed and ready to ride off to the lunar new year!

A family portrait! See her cheeky face! *pinches*

Baby Maya and her great-grandmother whom she clinged on throughout this holiday.. :)

Our super humongous expensive tasty layout of reunion dinner, with shark fins, abalones, sea cucumbers, crabs, prawns etc etc, thanks to Mama and aunts who made it happen.
So paiseh only I never helped out because I don't friggin know how to cook such delicate meals...

Little girl getting big duck drumstick! Ended up, thrown on the floor  -_- 

Very the glutton baby.. :)))
Banging for more yummilicious soup! Her Ah Ma enjoying feeding her.. :))) 

Our future socialite socializing the night away... *teehee*
Hanging out with her uncles and aunts.
No you can't have the Shandy. 

Selfie back at the hotel...❤️

Very unglamourous sleeping pose of our very-much-tired-out socialite.. Hehehe..

Kinda missed the crazy explosive fireworks and popping loud firecrackers firing in the Sibu sky because we didn't want to wake (or scare, in our case) Baby Maya up. 

Last selfie for the night of the Snake Year. All scrubbed clean without a trace of make up, to wake up fresh, with no "burden of past year" and gallopy energetic to the lunar Year of the Horse!!!

Hello Year of the Horse!!! Be kind to us and HUATT AHHHH!!! Haha...❤️❤️❤️

In beautiful pink lacey roses dress and purple leggings from H&M with lovely pink flower headband to match!❤️

Oh super cute overflowing... *whose daughter so freaking adorable!* Hahahahaha... ❤️❤️❤️

❤️Father-daughter selfie before riding off to visiting...❤️

I also wanna selfie! ❤️ Hahaha...Hair high up in HORSEtail (Pony small don't want... Haha!) in respect of the year! Hahaha... 

Baby Maya wishing Ah Ma and greatAh Ma gongxi gongxi
(in her own way - korek people's nostrils lolololol)

Almost perfect family photo.. Missing our Uncle Wallace! Next year next year... OKAY!

And the visiting begun.... The normally quiet house now filled with laughters and loud chatter..
A very pleasant change.

May this Horse year everybody HORSEh HORSEh ❤️ laaaaa!!!!

Super like this colourful waves dress!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Another selfie.... I love my camera ❤️.

❤️Auspicious happy vibe started with Baby Maya's infectious smile~~~❤️

Me in pastel beige modest top! *muahahhaha*

*wink wink* Baby Maya cute bergaya in a winking top and dark blue skirt with big white ribbon..

Posing in the lift before checking out! Hahaha... Biasa laaaa....

Good girl sleeping through the flight!

Alas!!! Back in my childhood home! *woohooo*
Hot steamboat full of yummies and loves awaits us for supper!!! ❤️ *nomnom* 

Waking up in my beloved Muar... Surrounded by her beloved cousins, already the havoc began!

Before the crowd flood in for our annual open house!
A selfie first (as usual!). Me in a feminine blue chiffon dress!

Baby girl in this beautiful green dress with white polka and a matching lovely white flower headband, that I bought for her when I was just 3months pregnant with her, and now she can wear it!
*tears* Damn suku crazy getting choked up suddenly.... *sniffs*

Spaceman LeLittleDestroyer is in the house! My mischievous nephew.. Havoc starting...
Oh that round grandfatherly man is LeBoss.... Hahahaha.... Round...

With my cutie-pie-who-is-growing-up-fast-and-getting-more-naughty niece LeSleepingBeauty!

*Aiyoh* "Maya MeiMei wants me to carry" he said..
*shake head* Baby Maya also layan saja.. 

And then Jolene MeiMei also wanna carry Maya MeiMei...
*pengsan* Super havoc!

My cousin is my best friend hashtag! Perfect picture for my new-found comic addiction! (See below) Hahhaa..
If you follow us on Instagram @wendy_choc 

My beautiful baby... *proud face*

Selfie with LeSista in our childhood room... ❤️❤️❤️
Not exactly photobombed by Dear Hubby and Baby Maya, more like caught they checking themselves out in the mirror! 

A family affair!!! ❤️

The famous AngPao Tikam board for the visitors during our open house!

Too many pictures. -_-

Our high school friends gathering! Yay... Absolutely yummy~~~
FINALLY! ABOUT TIME!!!Smaller bunch this year but I'm still very happy and grateful to meet up nonetheless!!!
Can't believe I'm the first to get married and be a mother. -_-
Ten year ago, I would laughed straight at your face if you'd told me that. No, I think I would probably slap you. Hahaha....

Daddies in action!
Hopefully next year, more daddies will join in! *ahem super obvious hinting*

My Family My Life.
What a great reunion.
Thank you LeBoss for the delectable scrumptious 'entertaining' dinner!!! 

Our LouSang.. Huat Huat HUATT AHHH!!! 

 *burp*

Just for fun!

Flew back, unpacked and it seemed like Baby Maya still in the mood to travel eh? 

Too fast.... Our tight 'CNY traveling schedule' came to an end. 

And down with sore throat and flu... *pfftt* 

Work started today... 

I've done three loads of laundry (yes, three *roll eyes too*), ironed our work clothes and packed my bag for work. Baby Maya's bag and lunches : done too. 

Work mode : BRING IT ON!

Feeling accomplished.

Super empowering powerful day! Did so many things today I feel super accomplished. It could be the fact that I woke up super early today and not fall asleep by 9pm...yet.

Last weekend I went to Saratok for a cataract camp. It was a 4day 3night kind of mission, some sort of outreach to the more rural area in Sarawak. My mission was accomplished! All operations went well and smoothly. Not I did all the op laaaa, I only did the minor surgeries. Two other specialists were with me - they did the major ones. Thoroughly enjoyed doing a (although) small part to help people with my ability. I was as grateful for the opportunity as well as the patients were thankful to us for the service.

Selfie with the nurses.. Thank you for the good help!

Mission accomplished! Hanging out session with the rest of the crew... 

Only downside of that mission was that I miss my baby girl terribly.... It would be 200% perfect if she could have been with me all that time... I missed her so much I had to watch her videos before I went to sleep and the first thing I woke up in the morning, just so to trick my brain that my baby girl was lying next to me like she always does, just so I don't cry so badly from missing her so so sibeh much.... So terribly teruk missing her right hahaha.. That was my very first time leaving her okay!!! *sniffles*

And while I was away at work, Dear Hubby single-handedly took care of Baby Maya!!! He was working also... And both of them survived!!! And he had done a fantastic job as well!!!!

*applause applause*
*bowing*

Hail to Dear Hubby!!! Super dad.... *hearts hearts*

Well done my love!!! 

YOU MADE ME SO FREAKING PROUD!!!

I came home to a very happy smiley baby who apparently missed me so so much too because she did not allow me to leave her sight after that... LOLOLOL and I was super fine with that (and secretly pleasant too! Hahahaha).

Digressing...
Anyways... this weekend it is Dear Hubby's turn to have some personal time - cycling of course..... (what else right)

So, it is Baby and Mummy's weekend!!! 
*supermum mode activated*
*selfie first laaaaa*

Woke up at crazy 6.30am (usually Sundays would indulge in sleeping in) but since the little monkey has already woken up and chattering noncomprehensible sounds, might as well seize the day! Spent a good half an hour snuggling and nuzzling my baby girl.... Ahhhhh what blissful start of the day it was already!!!

Mopped the floor and washed bottles. It was very impossible to clean the house with a very busybody infant crawling behind and everywhere. Hahaha! So I put her in her walker and made things worse because then she thought I was playing some sort of stick mop catch game with her. Hahaha! It was actually very amusing and enjoyable on my side too! Had the time to clean the balcony too.

Threw laundry into machine and bath baby girl. Super capably washed the bathroom also and then cleaned myself. Then prepare a hearty breakfast for the both of us. Put on kiddie songs and play play play with baby....

After she kepoh2 running here and there, chasing me (more like the mop).. Tired out with the 'strenuous' exercise.. Teeheeeheee!

While my princess was having her nap, I chopped and cut for our lunch - fish porridge. Fuss free, simple and very nutritious! The perfect menu for busy day like this doing chores... Then I hung the laundry and ironed our clothes. Only skipped one weekend and I was already cursing at the mountain-high clothes piled up in the basket needing ironing as I sweated away in the small room...

Baby woke up. Dropped everything else and went to feed her first.

Most valuable lesson of mummyhood that I can ever give to any of you new mummies - 

A FULL BABY IS A HAPPY BABY. 

A HAPPY BABY MAKES A HAPPY MUMMY. 

A HAPPY MUMMY, COMES A HAPPY DADDY, 

WELL... IT IS BASICALLY A HAPPY FAMILY. 

Keep this omen in mind and you will be fine. :)

Nothing gives me more accomplished feeling that Baby Maya appreciatively finished up the bowl of porridge. And the baby biscuits. I'm a tad worry that she is quite the smaller size as compared to her peers but hey, if she is feeding well and active and happy, perhaps I shouldn't concentrate so much on that.

Bath time and play time again. Even taught baby a new thing - birds fly - today. We have a flock of birds that made their nests in our roof, so they sometime will fly and sit on our window sill. Sometimes they are good, sometimes they literally give me angry bird action on the window, which boils me up because I have to clean their sh*t. Literally. But today they are chirping and singing by our window on a sunny Sunday afternoon. And that was superbly nice.

See the way she gloriously pengsan-ed hahahahhahaha..... So cute! Quickly while she takes her afternoon nap, I did all my Internet snooping and scooping... :P

We took a 20-minute walk in the garden down our lovely apartment in the cool evening breeze. Went back home, bath time again and started our evening rituals. Finally my energetic lively precious went to dreamland and I had the time to prepare her lunches for the week, also to write this blog. :)

*phew*

What a day! Mostly domestic errands but that is my day. That is my routine now.
Sunday is the family day.

Another two hours to go, I better get some studying done before I join in the snoozing duo in the bedroom!

Have a good night people!

Baby's first lunar birthday in Sibu.

Last week we flew back to Sibu and her paternal grandparents threw baby girl a birthday dinner in a classy restaurant for her very first lunar birthday. Being the eldest grandkid of the Kangs, my father in law spared nothing. Eight dishes, seven tables and lots and lots of angpaos and expensive gifts. 

Baby Maya is a rich baby, she can be my sugar baby! 

Hahaha... Kidding!

Whole weekend I was simply beaming and glowing with pride when people repeatedly telling me that we have a very beautiful daughter, big eyes, so cheeky, cute baby etc etc etc.. "She looks more and more like you!". Can't help but gloat. Naturally. Haha! Baby Maya is my trophy. :)))) And Mummy loves parading her around!!! Everybody loves her :)))) 

Adorable or not her outfit!!??!!! SOOOOOO CUTEEEE ~~ Bought by her Ah Ma! So lovely~~

Polka dot (yes polka dots again!) long sleeves top and orangey pink denim dress from Hush Puppies, bright red dancing shoes from one of the shoe parlors in Sibu, hairband and cute pink polka dot socks that I bought online! Super kawaiii nehhhh.....

Naughty girl playing with her lucky blessed angpaos. She was so super active that night, as though she knew that it was HER NIGHT!!! :)) She was quite 'entertaining' to many guests in her honour. 

Table layout. We had her lunar birthday dinner at Good Happiness Restaurant Sibu. Not bad, but a tad too cold. I asked them to switch off the aircond, 15 minutes later, someone would switch it back on. I had to go thru and back umpteen times asking the waiters and waitresses to switch off the aircond. 

Baby Maya caught cold that night. Of course la! Stupid aircond. 

The tiny VVIP of the night with her Ah Kong. This kid would surely be spoilt to bits by him. :DD

With her Ah Ma and grand aunt, who allowed her to chuck everything out from her branded bag. Which of course, she felt obligated to and she happily obliged. Haha. Purse, tissue paper, pen, papers, phone... everything out one by one. 

Overall view from my side of the table. Taken with panoramic setting.

Family snaptime!!! 

The dinner course that night: 

Noodles and egg - customary for lunar birthday celebration. Means long life so something like that.

Nutritious herbal black chicken soup.

Cold dishes combination, served in a boat.

Sharkfin soup. 

Steamed fish - Forgot to take picture of that big fish, also don't know what is the name.

 Pork with crusty vegetable popiahs.

Sea cucumber + abalone and broccoli in gravy. (yumzz)

BBQ ostrich meat with cheesy tiger prawns. (double yumzzz)

Fruit platter to end the course.

Baby also having her 'dinner'. Hehehe.... Nothing shine as bright as gold...
All kept in safety deposit box already, mummy (MY mum who will nag nonstop if I haven't done that). Yes, all of them. In the bank. Already. 
:DDD

The parents of the birthday baby! *teehehee* I actually wanted to snap one with him in the background, but somehow he realised it and kinda picturebombed my picture!

Selfie of the night! Semestinya selfie~~~ Hahahhaa.....

The following day, selfie with great grandmother...  

Morning brekkie with Ah Kong Ah Ma. Baby's sleepy face. The apple of their eyes la. *loves*

Safely reached CatsCity. Thank you MAS.

My baby girl so cute in this picture. Sometimes even though I see her everyday also I feel beh tahan wanna bite her! She started drooling so much again... (therefore the hankie) probably 'growing' teeth soon!!!

We will throw another birthday bash in her honour here in Kuching.
Oh, I hope it all goes well!