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Friday, 10 February 2023

CNY & Littlest's 4th Birthday

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This year we finally could enjoy CNY like we did pre-COVID! I've always loved festivals but the pandemic makes you appreciate them even more! 😃

Reunion Dinner

As usual, I decorated my home with pretty rabbit CNY decorations. I've also made my own lanterns to hang in my living room!





We kept reunion dinner relatively simple, with 2 mookata plates and lots of ingredients! 😀


CNY Day 1

Unlike the year before where there were still restrictions on number of visitors to a home, there were no more restrictions this year! Hooray! 🥳




The extended family on my mum's side happily met up at my only surviving grandparent's house together! 



We had to take a picture to commemorate the occasion, especially since many of the kids have grown up and look so different!

The Lee family gathered in the evening to have dinner and lohei.




I really treasure family gatherings because before you know it, time has passed and things will not be the same anymore!


CNY DAY 3

We spent CNY Day 2 with the extended Lee family and Day 3 (which was still a public holiday) at MBS. The hubby brought us to try Koma, which is most well-known for their beautiful Japanese decor.








The food was good but the most spectacular in my opinion was the desserts! Especially their edible bonsai! Definitely my favourite part of the meal!





We asked the staff to help us take some family photos before heading to the new interactive art exhibit next to the food court that used to be the ice skating rink.


This is a paid activity but we had two free tickets because we were MBS Prestige members.


Just like the Sketch Aquarium in the Art Science Museum, the kids coloured pictures of marine animals, which were scanned into a machine so that they will appear in the interactive floor. We waited for a long time but their pictures didn't come up! There was a problem with the scanner! Sad 😢




Nevertheless the kids had a lot of fun! 😀


Littlest's 4th Birthday

The Littlest was born during CNY period hence we usually celebrate her birthday close to CNY. She had so many cakes for her birthday this year!





Her dad also brought her to eat her favourite beef, with medium doneness just as she likes it!



Hope you enjoyed your birthday darling! It's so great that we are able to have our usual gatherings and celebrations! 🥳

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Past CNY celebrations:

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Tuesday, 15 February 2022

CNY in the Year of the Tiger

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CNY Prep

This CNY was going to be a muted one like the year before due to COVID-19 restrictions. Despite that we won't be expecting many visitors, we decided to go with the usual decorations to lift our spirits.
This year I thought I will also add on a plant centrepiece just for fun; as well as my usual flower arrangement 😁
All ready for the new year!

Reunion Dinners

The pandemic restrictions during CNY this year only allowed dining for 5 per table so the Heng-Lee-Yap family of 10 had to split into 2 tables: girls and boys+mum.
The girls had fun at our table, the food was so yummy!

We had reunion with the Lee family at home and tried my hand at making yusheng in the shape of a tiger. Not the best but it was fun making it!


DAY 1

Our family dressed up in predominantly red this year, with Littlest Girl twinning with her bff and twin (my niece).

As we are only allowed 5 visitors per household per day, it really limited our usual visitations. But me being me, I decided to get all of us dressed up anyway, even if we're only going to visit my mum's house, cos it's not CNY otherwise!

It's also probably the last time I'm going to get my girl to wear a dress? 😅

DAY 2 Onwards

We didn't do much for the rest of CNY except to visit some relatives here and there and to visit the malls.




Hopefully next year will be a less restrictive CNY so that we can catch up with the extended family!

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Check out our previous CNY celebrations:
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Sunday, 26 December 2021

Another COVID Christmas in 2021

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This is the 11th year documenting my favourite season of the year! Not sure how many people will read this post but I'm still gonna document it for memory sake ☺️

Since our old 10-year-old tree has reached the end of its life, we said goodbye to it last year and bought a new tree from Mason Home Decor. I love that the leaves look so realistic! This year I also had an extra helper to help set up the tree!
  

It's like a must for me to put up Christmas decorations all around my house during the Christmas season. It really lifts your spirits and puts you in a good mood!

This year I also did my own wreath using simple materials I bought from Daiso.




With the house all decorated, we were ready to welcome guests to our home!


I also made use of Christmas as a good excuse to buy myself a Christmas gift, a Lego Mosaic of me and the hubby via the Mosaic Maker at the Sentosa Lego Store.


The kids ended up having more fun than me piecing the whole thing together! Love it so much!



December is also when we would celebrate my mum's birthday and we decided to treat her to Paul's at Tanglin Mall, one of our favourite restaurants.


Since we're out and about, we might as well take loads of pictures with the beautiful decorations by the malls! Yet another annual tradition!



We also headed to Jewel as I had some Singapore Rediscovers vouchers left and wanted to utilise them at the Manulife Sky Nets.

I really love to take pictures at Jewel! It's such a beautiful place 😊



Before heading to the nets, we had lunch at the famous Burger and Lobster. It was good but of course cannot be compared to the original Burger & Lobster that we had in London.

However, the beautiful view from the restaurant absolutely made up for it!








After lunch, we headed to the Manulife Sky Nets by going through Jewel Canopy (the Sky Nets were located within Jewel Canopy). We visited in 2019 pre-COVID so it was nice to visit again, this time all decked out in their Christmas theme.



There were 2 types of Sky Nets, Walking and Bouncing. We read reviews that the walking nets were really boring so we decided to skip that and went straight to Bouncing.

You need to book a slot and wait for your turn before you can enter as they regulate the number of people inside.



You can see the whole fountain from the highest point, which can be pretty scary for people who are afraid of heights. It's cheap thrill for the rest of us! 😂




It looks way bigger from outside though, because once inside, it was actually a very tiny area with not much to do! Our slot was 1.5 hours but we got bored after just 20 minutes! We ended up finding a nice corner and hanging out together for the rest of our time on the nets!


It was an experience but once is more than enough!

We also checked out Rainforest Lumina held at Singapore Zoo at night. It featured light displays on the empty enclosures while the animals were at the Night Safari.






It was quite cool to explore the Zoo at night! We even bought a souvenir to support our local Zoo 😊


We always take the opportunity at the end of the year to soak in the celebrations.

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