CNY in Ipoh

This year, we headed back to Ipoh 2 days before Chinese New Year. As usual there was a lot of cutting and work in the kitchen for the dinners on the eve and Chinese New Year itself.

Here is our usual popiah treat for the eve:

 And we had a firework display too:

We all woke up bright and early on the first day of Chinese New Year. Everyone had breakfast and also quickly got ready before the lion dance started. There was a hiccup in the arrangements but they finally made it. Here is a picture of the both of you as we waited for them to come:

 Making a grand entrance:

 Mei-mei enjoying the lion dance:

 The lion gave her some "gold":

 Ko-ko got an orange:

 The lion worked really hard to prepare this decoration:

 And our family picture:

 Kids getting their ang pow:

 And kids enjoying their ice-cream treat from Doctor Chek Kong:

 This year we attempted to make a "piggy lou sang":

 Our Chinese New Year family feast:

We had to head back on the second day of Chinese New Year as mummy and daddy had to work on Thursday. Kids were lucky to have the whole week off. 

CNY Dinner and Grampy's Birthday

As usual, we had our early Chinese New Year celebration in BM and it doubled as Grampy's birthday too.

We had a lot of food which we slowly ate in the air-cond comfort in the living room. 

 We later had a cake which of course the two kids blew out the candle instead of Grampy.

Chopstick Wielding Girl

It still amazes me that you somehow have taught yourself how to use the chopsticks. And most importantly, your daddy tells everyone that you are using it the correct way, unlike most of us (Ah Kong and I inclusive).

I had bought you those "trainer" chopsticks but you did not use them too often before graduating to the full fledged chopsticks:

Surprise, Evan!!

You had asked if you could participate in the tournament. So we agreed and you asked if your old racket could be restrung. Went to the shop which is run by your badminton coach and ended up buying you a new racket. We told you that we had bought you a new bag. And you seemed quite pleased to get the bag AND the new racket. When we picked up the racket, we had actually bought another for you.
Hope that you will be serious about your interest in badminton.. 

Pizza Master Chef

Ee-ee had bought you this Master Chef pizza maker set. So we finally found some time to make that pizza.. and here is our happy pizza master chef. 

Another Lost Tooth

Oh my.. you seem to be losing your teeth so rapidly. This time is was your left lateral incisor. Daddy had to try a few times before it came off. And as you were waiting for the tooth fairy to come, you quickly went to sleep.
I had to make sure that I put the pouch with money properly under your pillow and now into the pillow case like what I did the last time.
And the next day.. we had one happy little girl. 

Little Toughie and Her 3rd Tooth

The tooth fairy came to the house yesterday night again. The third tooth finally fell off after so many weeks of hanging on. Daddy helped you remove it.
As with the last time, it was easy to get you to sleep. And you kept asking us to sleep so that the tooth fairy could come.
You woke up this morning and tried to search for the money, but the blur tooth fairy apparently stashed the pouch into your pillow case instead of under your pillow. Oops.. luckily daddy helped you find it. Then you came down to proudly show me your money. Then you asked me why the tooth fairy only gave you RM2. You seemed to think she gave you RM3 the last time... Anyway, you then searched for your purse to keep the money with the rest of your cash.

** Looks like #4 will be falling off soon. Do we need to adjust the tooth fairy rates for inflation?

Our New Year's Eve Supper

It was a working day for us, but since we wanted a little festivities, daddy and I went to Jaya Grocers to buy some cold cut and to pick up a bottle of Prosecco. Then we headed to The Wine Shop to pick up some soft cheese (we had hard ones at home).

And so this was our spread as we waited for the clock to chime 12 midnight and the start of 2019!!

Day 5: Time to Head Home

Woke up for one last yummy breakfast in the lounge before heading back to the room to bathe and pack up. We checked out and headed to Publika for lunch. Ended up at Mickey's New York Pizza. The pizza was delicious... we even thought of bringing some home for dinner.. but decided not to in the end.. (and it was a good decision.. I'll tell you why later)

After lunch, we went back to BIG to buy some groceries before loading into the car and starting our journey home.
It was a pleasant drive and you both dozed off a couple of times. Suddenly Mei-mei woke up muttered something to me and before we could react.. she started vomiting non-stop. Ko-ko was dead asleep and daddy and I were both screaming for him to wake up, but he did not wake up until much later. I had to use Mei-mei's blanket to catch the vomit and when Ko-ko woke up, he passed me the plastic bag to put the blanket in (before it started to drip all over daddy's car!!).
We finally found a R&R (I think it was Simpang Pulai) and we slowly cleaned everything up. Ko-ko had to go to the bathroom to wash his hair.. he had um.. pizza (now you know why I think it was a wise decision that we didn't take away some from the lunch shop!!). He had some on his shirt too so he went the rest of the way home without a shirt.
For the rest of the journey, Mei-mei still dozed on and off while holding another plastic bag near her mouth (probably nothing left to vomit as um.. everything had come out the first time already!!) while Ko-ko stayed awake for fear of getting spewed with more vomit and so that he could do his duty of holding up the bag for her!!
What an end to our holiday :)

Day 4: KL Twin Towers

It was an early day as we needed to eat breakfast before heading to the Twin Towers by 8.45am. And we were the first in the queue for the 9am session. 

 First stop was the Sky Bridge:

 Then we headed to the 86th floor to look around and enjoy the view:

 Making silly faces in the lift on the way down:

Day 4: SuperPark

After going up the KL Twin Towers, we went back to KLCC to buy a present for Martin as his birthday was coming up and we were meeting him later that day. We finally decided on a Lego set and then headed back to the hotel to drop the stuff and rest. 

As Evelyn had seen the SuperPark from the day before, we decided to head back there and pay for a full day session (for daddy and the two of you). I had read that no shoes were allowed so you all showed up in your slippers/sandals. But... we were then told that you'd need shoes to do the wall climbing :(... So while the three of you enjoyed the park, I headed back to the hotel to pick up your shoes. 

I arrived just as the morning session was closing. Brought water for the three of you and spotted Ko-ko and daddy playing one of the games together.. trying to score against each other:

 And since there was a lull between the morning and afternoon session, you guys quickly put on your shoes and headed to the wall climbing section. I took these pictures from the top where I got quite nice pictures of you all and the wall climbing. I felt woozy just watching you; I wondered if I would drop my phone..  Lucky I wasn't going to climb any walls. 

The man helping Mei-mei into her climbing gear 

Daddy also helped 

Daddy helping Ko-ko 

First to try was Mei-mei.. on the simplest wall 

They had to help you a bit on how it was done 

Ko-ko easily scaling the wall.. the hardest of the 3 

Daddy had a go too.. was done very quickly

I also bought an afternoon pass so that I could help daddy watch one of you as he was not able to watch both of you as you both picked different games. Here is Mei-mei with one of her favourites of the park: The tube slide

 And this was her other favourite: The Flying Fox:

 Ko-ko and daddy had fun together too.. you all played 1-1 basket ball, tried out the soccer against the robot goalie and softball.

 And you both also tried to play together too.. only problem was the game could not read shortie Evelyn *grin*

Mei-mei tried the go-kart.. and she was the slowest.. she had one last round to complete when everyone else in her group was done..

You all tried the ice-skating too.. it was a long wait as there was a child who cut himself on the ice skate blade.

 After that, we left earlier to get back to the hotel while Martin, Yvonne Kor-kor and Uncle Peter continued for a while. We dropped our things in the room, then headed to the club floor for some snacks. Evelyn was too tired after all the excitement at the SuperPark, she fell asleep at the table:

After they left, we headed to Gobo Chit Chat for dinner, but since everyone was too tired to sit at the restaurant, we ordered the food and requested for it to be sent to our room. It was a free meal as I had utilized my Golden Circle points:

So this was our very expensive chicken rice and burger with the oxtail soup. Food was delicious.