CNY 2009 Chor 3

Chor 3 We went Malacca 'bai nian' with Ian & family, as well as some of his uncle aunty & cousins... The traffic in Malacca was terrible during chor 3, jamming all the way towards the town. Good thing was we reached before noon, & managed to eat chicken rice ball & ice kacang + cendol... The queue after that was scary too..
Thereafter we went from house to house to visit.
Dinner time, we gave up on satay celup due to the super cramp place & the terrible crowd, newton food square was not any better, super crowded with below average food, really tasteless..
Seriously, I am thankful for KL hawker food now... lol....
Nevertheless its a fruitful day getting to know Ian's relatives & travelling around....

CNY 2009 Chor 2

Chor 2 We just had a relax day hanging out at popo's place, then they went over to our house. Favourite time for baby vivian & yuen yee, as they got to swim swim swim :)

CNY 2009 Chor 1

Firstly visited Jubilee old folks home with Ian & family,then headed to Chorus hotel for hitea with Ian's aunties & uncles & cousins... super full & satisfied meal.

Thereafter, we had a great time at our house.

Reunion Dinner 2009

yOooooHoooo... memorable CNY eve...
This is the first time we are giving out ang pao, preparing before the reunion dinner.... it feelssss so good.....





















We are so thankful for the good timing, despite the fact that we are now married, we didn't miss either side of the family reunion dinner!! We went to grandma's place earlier, helped her out with some kitchen work, wrapping some really cool "pearl rice meat ball" & also mainly ka ka cau cau there... hehee...










popo & mama busy preparing in the kitchen

rushing off for the second round of dinner @ sam yao restaurant with ian's daddy mommy & adrian & san yi & husband
super full that night, we both stayed over & counting down CNY @ usj with them.... =)

An Emo Read...

Tonight I had a random visit & therefore a good read at once my fav site, a taiwanese novel writer named 'xi juan'. http://www.xijuan.com (btw, my love for chinese novels was influenced by my mom.. hahaa..)

Despite of people criticizing taiwanese novel reading is just a waste of time, I still look up to this writer's novels, as she writes a lot about human behaviours, analyzing deep thoughts of people in boy girl relationship, reflected in their actions & decisions. Put it in lay man terms, her books have the substance le,not those dream dream white horse prince type....

Tonight I read about a story of a woman pursueing her husband for many years, putting him as her center of life, changing herself to be different type of 'wife' just to suit him: from a music & arts education background girl, become a sharp & wise business woman, even asked for a divorce in order to have the space to be trained in dancing, drawing, flower deco etc to fulfill his dream girl type! (that's a bit dramatic and insane for real life) ....
Skipping all the dramatic guessing and actions due to perceiving, the end of the story during their heart to heart sharings, it was said that she kept changing herself, striving to assist him the best, to become his dream girl type, is due to her insecurity of his love, that she thinks that she is never good enough for him, she is not sure if he really loves her... The confession of her husband is saying, nope I love you for who you are, stop assuming what do I need, what do I want, involve me in part of your future planning, discuss with me....

I wept & wept while reading this... Partly many part of the stories hit my heart, that I find similarities of the struggles that I had...
Yes, I love God, I pursued Him.. but had all that I am doing, changing my behaviours, my lifestyles, my actions, all are out of the assumptions what I percieved He will love me to be, and yet never really discuss and plan out with Him?
or on the other hand will I after married, live for Ian that I totally lose the originity of myself?
I guess I really need a good balance, in some areas I definitely need to sacrifice in order to support Him/him, but the key is still communication, heart to heart discussion :)

Good night everybody, I need to catch some sleep, looking forward to visit popo, baba & mama tomorrow morning.... Love

Will update more posts on eve & chor 1 after adjusting the photo... seriously I have the best family & also best in law family.... & not forgetting the best husband. *wink*

- CHUEY

Have you changed your notes?

Married people, have you changed your notes?

This is the first time we are doing that, many told us that many bank are running out of stock for new notes...
At this last minute, I discovered a good place to change notes without long queue ---> Bank Islam! yeah.. .that's right, short queue, change within a few minutes *wink*

Btw, only YOUNGER people that come our house can get ang pau k?
Those that are not eligible, don't worry we will still prepare kuih-muih for you...
LOL....

First Post of 2009

Migrating the blog here, reckon that blogspot is a better place to blog blog and blog..... =)

Usually questions that can't run away this year,
"so how's married life?" In dec I still couldn't answer that as we were pretty much still in vacation... till then when we get back to mundane routine, busy works, weekly cell groups, church, only the real married life begins.....

However, its still a too wide scope to answer this question...
What can I say? generally married life is great, much better than single life (perhaps I said this too soon? *wink*)...
Ian doesn't have to rush to send me back home anymore, we can watch tv together, cook together, excersice together(yet to be a reality.. all credit to my laziness.. hehee), host friends for gathering together, share hair serum, moisturizer etc, discovering & laughing at each other's funny small habits...
On the stretching side, double laundry job, ironing clothes (seriously I hate this part :p), get used to each other small habits, bills, clean up, planning out as we now share the same schedule most of the time...

Many people ask me, how about your in-law le? Are you ok with them.
Well, people who know ian's parents will know that they are generous & caring.. After we are back to working routine, always reach home finding our fridge and kitchen cabinet refilled with drinks, food, soup, dishes... ahhh... we are just spoilt :p

Well all is good... We both enjoy the new stage of life =)
Now CNY is coming, I start to face the reality that hey I am really married, can't go back home on 30 anymore, gotta spend the night with parents in law instead , gotta prepare ang pow!!!!!! can we hide at home? hehee ....
anticipating though, its a brand new feeling at this stage of life.....

Gong Xi Fai Cai!!