CNY.2006.

The CNY holidays are almost over. And what a day to summarize the flurry of activities for the past 2 days.

It was a different CNY this year, as i got up early, not to greet my parents but to go to church. This must be the first time the first day of CNY is on a sunday - a church day! My heart was warmed to see all who made it to church, and what a way to start of the CNY, to celebrate in His kingly presence. Took a few pictures with my posse, and realised pink is such a festive colour!

Before i got to visit my gramma, i met up with LK to pass him some stuff and i treated him to a sundae for causing him so much inconvenience. Glad i got to know a brother better, instead of referring to him as just another person in church.

And then, it was off to gramma's. Usually, everyone would be there in the morning, and it would be very "re-nao" but this year, because some of us had church, we visited later, and when i got there, only one other family was there, but it was the family with my favouritest youngest cousin-Jan, and she's such a delight!

Went home and rested, and got out again to go to my uncle's place, where the whole ging-gang would be there. I'm amazed at how we would gather, year after year, and even though i only see some of my relatives as little as once a year, you see everyone catching up and making merry with one another. At times, i do wonder if it's just part of socialising and making time pass while you're at it, but i desire that there will be solid relationships between all of us in my family, across generations and oceans. And i must say that a baby does wonders in building bridges between people. But i must confess that as much as i would like to build bridges, i did try, by talkin to ppl i've not seen in a long time, i eventually stuck to hanging out with my cuzzies. We went on our annnual photo-taking spree, and we started playing Headbanz and moved on to charades. It was madness and very jolly, as we came up with weirder thigns to act out. By the time the day ended, i was so exhausted. but day 2 was only beginning.

The next day, after lunch at home, i popped over to JY's place togther with YW to play. And play we did. We were amused at little megan and shannon, baby-talking and asking so many questions that goes on and on. We tried to play Take2, and initially, it was a challenge with the girls in the same room, and JY had to keep them from scrambling up our tiles. In the end, we managed to complete 2 games, and JY was the reigning queen. We got an invitation from Jan to go over to her place for mee-siam.

After rescheduling, we went over to her place, and was greeted with lots of mee-siam and
other goodies. Put four girls and a camera together, and you've got entertainment. We played pretend-slumber-parties and pretend-we're-a-rock-band and laughing our heads off, JY was afghan-girl for awhile too. heh.

The day was still young, as YW and I continued on to KZ's place. And what a crowd there was. I knew he invited alot of people over, but it looked more like a housewarming party than your typical CNY vistiation. But he was such a good host, he had an abundance of food/drinks and decks of cards to keep us entertained. A group of us gatherd to play Indian poker, and tickled ourselves funny and moved on to play Pig, this high-tension-eye-hand-coordination game that's like Heart Attack, but higher on the fun quotient. There's something about seeing others let their hair down, that's the fastest ice-breaker especially when you're in a group with people you hardly hang out with. We played murderer next and that really murdered our seriousness and logic, heh, and replaced it with as much nonsense to keep us entertained.

To end the day, Bonny, YW, KZ and i headed to Coffee Bean at Bishan to chill and talked till it was closing time.

I had a really fun CNY this year. fruitful's more like it. I went to church on the first day, i formed new friendships with people and I thank God for everything, from the fun, food and the fellowship =)

will upload pictures soon!

and what a way to begin my India trip. =)