You're my courage to go on (blogging)


... Sosincal. Your words mean to me a lot more than you know.

And now, some long awaited photos of Christmas, Jacky Cheung's concert and Reunion Dinner Night for the Tan juniors.

Christmas -

We had company on Christmas eve.



My mahjong kakis, Onn and Benny and their respective girlfriends. It's damn obvious what we were doing right before opening the wine Onn brought, isn't it?





Their defination of a screwed cork.



What the heck.



So we messed around for awhile until Benny's girlfriend had to go home, during which Onn's girlfriend became our temporary kaki until Benny came back.

So the next day was Christmas (obviously), and we spent a quiet evening together. We did present opening at home and then set out for a small little BBQ all by ourselves.

Lazy's gift.



See, it has little hearts in it.



What makes this so special? Because it was so sweet and totally unexpected. We were out shopping together with Cudas the weekend before, and I was swooning over this watch in one of the shops. I didn't even drop any hints.

Anyways, Cudas got me this fisheye camera she got from http://www.lomotion.com/. She's some sort of goddess there and has loads of free points.



Notice the cat on the cover. Cute.

It kind of disappeared after she took the camera and had the film developed. Methinks she wants to play with it herself.

These are 3 of the best shots I took with the fish-eye camera. Actually it's 2. The third one is to ka-jiao Cudas, cuz I know she'll chase after me to have it removed.

They are all unedited (except for resizing and the watermarks).

My favourite piece -







Hiak hiak. She is so going to have my blood for this. But I digress.

So after the present opening session, we had a two-person BBQ at (where else?) Fresh Air Cove. We went for a last minute shopping earlier on and got a mini disposible BBQ set at $5, slicked pork/chicken/beef/ham and had fun.





The food was yummy-ummy-ummy although we had trouble starting the fire with the puny piece of paper wax the box provided, and Lazy had to go borrow some firestarter from the family next to us.

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The year of Jacky Cheung world tour 07' which we watched in '08 courtesy of tickets from Lazy's boss -

You know in every concert attended, people tend to do this :



Take pictures of the crowd and the people there. I mean, what's the excitement? It's just people. We already saw them at the Mayday concert. Anyway I'm also doing it, so don't feel bad. Hehe.

We got relatively good tickets, considering they're free, it wasn't as close as we were to MAYDAY!!! but the view was good. There was this dude in blue uniform in front of me the whole time, and his shifty eyes penetrating the entire row of audience where I was sitting. Or was it that he's watched the same concert for so many times that he's not interested anymore?



Lazy eating his $6 hotdog..



Proving that we were there..



Another obligatory picture of the crowd..



... and we're done.

Oh, and a picture of Jacky Cheung himself!

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Oh he's there somewhere. Near where the arrow is pointing. I think.

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CNY at both my grandmama's houses -

As usual we spent reunion dinner night with my paternal side of the family, and Chu Yi (初一) with my maternal side of the family.

Every year it's the same image of us "lao-ing" the yu-sheng, so Imma skip those. However, we have something new this year!

Presenting Kermit the frog on reunion night:



Why it is so important for us to have a Tan junior family photo this year?

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PREGGOS! Haha. Two of them.



On the left with the oldest Tan junior is June, whom we should call Da-sao (big sister-in-law) because she married the eldest Tan junior, but we call Zhong-sao (middle sister-in-law) instead because the eldest Tan junior had a Zhong in his name.

We like to complicate things.

After having numerous photos taken with numerous parents camera phones, grandmama got waylaid on her way in to take something. Presenting the sweetest, most loving-in-her-special-way, most traditional and reliable and beautiful grandmama of the Tan clan -



She used to dye her hair black in an attempt to stave off the "old", but she absolutely refused to dye it black anymore on account that it is too inconvenient for her, even after numerous requests and pleas to dye it black by (who else) the Tan juniors.

In this next photo, something strange is going to happen. Something is not right. Look closely.



Need a hint?

There are three preggos in this photo.

*Sorry, inside joke of Tan juniors*

Anyways, the next day was spent at my maternal grandmama's house. Once again, she wow-ed us with the delicacies and food. It went along smoothly until some lady wearing a curtain and her family turned up and plopped down on one of the seats and started eating. Eurgh.

The most memorable thing?

Lizard eggs.



In here.



Remind me never to play mahjong at my grandmama's house again.