Dong dong dong chiang.

Gotta say that I really love Chinese New Year, although my luck hasn't been that good this year. By that, I mean that my track record for gambling for the past five days wasn't great - win, lose, win, lose, lose :(

Anyway, I have finally gotten around to blogging about this festive season. I've been such a lazy ass because there are hundreds of photos stored in my iPhoto that I've yet to upload. 

The only reason I'm doing it now at 9 in the morning is because I'm cursed to wake up really early after a night of drinking. This happens around eight out of ten times, sigh. WHY OH WHY.

Okay, pictures time!

Lou sang session #2 with my ex-colleagues again.

Some really good asam fish, where the asam is genuinely like the asam from asam laksa. Yum!

For the reunion dinner on the eve, we joined my dad's side, held at my uncle's place approximately 2km away from my house.

In the end, I couldn't make it for my mum's side because I didn't know how to drive there alone and my parents couldn't follow me :(

I'm not so good with using chopsticks for a bowl of rice.

What I look forward to every year, my aunt's abalone soup. So good that I had three bowls of this.

Lou sang #3. We have two portions, one for the third generation (aka me) and one for the adults. This year though, I joined the adults.

Attack! I absolutely love roasted pork.

With my one and only brother, who came back from the country down south for a few days. I know we don't really look alike because once, when I brought him along for my badminton session, most of my friends didn't believe he was my brother but thought he was my boyfriend -_-

TV room, where the younger crowd hangs out.

Porkie overload.

This was just one table of us.

After dinner, we watched a movie called 'The Flowers of War', which stars Christian Bale and some Chinese people. The movie was mainly in Mandarin, with some English coming from Mr Bale. It's about the infamous 1937 Nanjing massacre. Good movie, which I highly recommend. Beautiful cinematography and the war scenes were so damn real. Still, I couldn't believe all of us were huddled up in front of the tv watching people get their guts exploded and seeing children/women get raped T.T

He's only 15 months older.

Cool eh? Brandless can but the drink was tasty. 

The very next morning, we departed to Teluk Intan @ Perak, which is actually both my mum's and dad's hometown. Their high schools were just opposite each other's but they met in KL. Sweet huh? :)

Their love story is really cute but that's another story for another day. But let's just say that my parents were definitely fated to be together. Anyway, it's a pretty small town, so my dad knew my mum's siblings and vice versa. Also, my grandfathers knew each other since they were young too. Imagine that.

Been a year since I came back and suddenly, there's a bunch of lady fingers growing.

The term balik kampung definitely suits me because I really go back to a kampung.

Mum's family minus two siblings because they weren't born yet at the time of the picture.

A must when you go into the toilets.

I was REALLY bored in the morning, while waiting for my cousins to arrive.

So I went around snapping pictures like these :) My cheongsam totally fitted the setting.

Even my brother was sleeping and not entertaining me :(

Such a noisy little fan.

My aunt was laughing at me by the side, which explains my laughter. 

Pretty looking arch.

Clogs as high heels, hahahaha.

For the first time in many years, I had to bathe here, using the traditional method of scooping water. I usually just go over to my cousin's place to shower with the heater and everything.

Everyone said I made the toilet look so beautiful ;)

My favourite picture of the bunch.

Self timer shot, hee.

With my late grandpapa, who passed away 14 years ago. Although I was really young back then but I remember him so clearly. In my head, I can still picture him sitting at his favourite chair in that house and immediately asking me for a kiss when I came to visit him :'( 

My aunt asked me to take a picture at the 'multi religious corner'. Spot the Buddha and the cross.

My mum wanted to snap this picture, to compare whether my face is bigger than a pomelo -.-

Dinner was at a seafood restaurant and omg, this was just TOO GOOD. Where can I find it in Selangor, can anyone tell me?

Such a good dinner.

With a multitude of crabs.

Dying lady finger.

Curly one.

Leaning clock tower. Dad stopped the car just so I could snap a picture. It changed colours every 3 seconds!

We bought 20 packets of the famous Teluk Intan chee cheong fan and the queue was so crazily long. Thankfully, we could jump queue because of our connections. Anyway, this is the reason why I never eat any other chee cheong fan because how can those plain ones compare to this?! Filled with bits of pork and shrimp.

Following morning, we went home. This is the advantage of being short because I could comfortably lie horizontally in the car with my bolster, booyah!

Wow this post took me an hour to type. Please read every word, thanks.