Hello peeps!!! Koong hei fatt choy to everyone! Sorry for the lack of update for a week. Whenever there is a school break, it will be really hard for me to steal even 5 minutes to warm the chair at my work desk. With relatives in and out of the house for a week, no helper, cooking and traveling, not only have I not had the time to do anything online, I have even developed a backache, OUCH! Thank goodness no. 2 and no. 3 are back to school today and this gives me the reason to start my morning exercise regimen again. I am so glad to tell you that I have started running again. When the iron level goes up, so does my stamina! I am so happy that I am slowly but surely starting to run again without gasping for air. I am still popping Sangobion iron tabs twice a day, on top of filling my tummy with foods rich in iron.
So what have we been doing this Chinese New Year?
On the eve of CNY, I brought the girls and the MIL to Mid Valley Megamall to do some last minute shopping. The hubs was and still has been busy with work. I took the girls to shop for clothes at the eleventh hour. Traffic leading to the mall was really smooth and getting a spot to park my car had never been this fast and easy! While the girls were shopping for their clothes, I spotted a bright chili red mini skirt and bought it on impulse. OUCH to my wallet!! But retail therapy is the best way to de-stress and buying stuff really does make me a very happy mommy 😍
After breaking my wallet just on clothes, the mil treated us to lunch at Upeh @ Gardens. We ordered Nasi Dagang and Nasi Kerabu. Both the items were super yums.
We had dinner at the hubs’ uncle’s house where all the Yaps gathered for the first time in KL for the CNY reunion dinner. In previous years, some of them would celebrate in Ipoh and the rest in KL. We had a pretty late night and only went to bed at close to 2am.
On the first day of the year of the Rooster, I dragged myself out from bed to help out as a ‘dutiful’ daughter in law, though I had less than 6 hours of sleep. We were expecting the hubs’ relatives for brunch of customary vegetarian food at our house. This year, Cass helped to tie knots on dried daylily buds for the vegetarian dish.
Below – The vegetarian dish that the mil wokked up early in the morning of the first day of CNY. It totally slipped my mind that I had to snap a nice picture of the vegetarian dish before it was dug into. I only remembered to take a picture when we were eating this dish for dinner that night, ha!
Below – The Yaps tossing the vegetarian ‘lou sang‘…
Below – tofu and vegetarian roast ‘duck’ that the hubs bought from a vegetarian restaurant. He waited for over 1 hour just for these 2 dishes.
After our customary vegetarian lunch at home, we went to Pavillion to do some red red CNY camwhoring 😍 Sorry, no pictures of our Pavillion photography will be posted here as a show of respect and privacy to my relatives who do not wish to be featured in my blog. I have instead taken pictures of Pavillion CNY 2017 from dunialifestyle.com to show you just how pretty and red the decor is this year.
Below – our tea and snacks at one of the newly opened cafes in Pavillion…
Below – the nga ku (arrow root) plant that sprouted out from the arrow roots. The mil germinated the arrow roots in water 2 weeks before CNY and the green shoots shot up to this height on the first day of CNY.
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