CNY Dry Run Day


... in preparation for CNY 2009. Also known as "Dong Zhi 冬至" winter solstice when everybody eats "Tang Yuan 汤圆“ soup balls (Direct translation. I don't know the English translation for this).

As usual, everyone gathered at grandmama's house for dinner. Usually one or a few of the uncles/aunts/cousins/GRANDFATHER would be missing, but this day was a special one because the entire Ngoh Hiong gang showed up in full force. Even my grandfather waited a little more before he got back to his poker-ing with his old friends downstairs.

Which is why this day is aptly named the CNY Dry Run day, because it's just like CNY except without the 3 tables of food set out in the living room.

As usual, all the focus were on the babies. So yes, this post is going to be all about the babies. Oh, and excuse the blurry photos, you all know babies are so hard to capture. But some of their expressions on blurry photos are priceless, so yeah.





Little Sweetie-Pie with her mommy and daddy.









Little Ball wants a piece of the action too.





Little Sweetie-Pie does a little product placement.





Little Sweetie-Pie threatens to cry.


"Little Ball take my drink!!!"

Little Ball's turn to threaten to cry. The attempt turns into pulling him funny faces.



Leeling jiejie gives Little Ball a phone.


"Hello hello?"




Got monster behind, deh.



Finally! A picture with Little Ball.







Oops! The straw came out!



Baby girl does product placement again.



The 20+ years too old to appear on a baby post people.





Cudas says the following photo looks like one taken twenty years ago when one of the uncles carried one of us.

Little Ball wasn't smiling. Little Ball was actually going to cry, but for some reason, this came out looking nice.



Nope, nothing strange about the next picture.



Bwahahahahahaha~!! Can't help laughing when I see this picture. For some reason, every single photo I take of an injured friend or relative, they always seem to be damn happy about it. Methinks I should do a compilation of happy injured people album.



I love this picture, although it's a little blurry. Shows my protective grandmama enjoying watching her family interact. Grandmama likes to sit in the corners so she can see everyone in the house.



Nope, nothing wrong with the following picture either.



Boo!