Chinese New Year Recap

Chinese New Year is ending in 2 days time. How time flies. Let’s recap what happened for the past 13 days.

Eve of CNY:
Had reunion dinner with KW’s extended family in restaurant. Food and service’s extremely bad. Talk about fast food, all 9 dishes and dessert was plunked onto our table in less than 30 minutes. It’s as if they are rushing us to finish our dinner so they could serve more customers.
Watched our 1st lion dance in the restaurant on our way back to in-laws house. We spent about and hour in PIL’s house before heading back to our crib at about 2330.

1st Day of CNY:
Went back to PIL’s house at 1000 for brunch with KW’s paternal granny and extended family at 1130. KW’s aunt came out with a ‘Traditional Dress’ theme this year where everyone MUST wear Chinese Traditional costume. Chloe got frightened by KW’s uncle’s dog, ’Buddy’ as that so called friendly dog chased and barked at her the moment he saw my beautiful girl in bright red cheongsam.

I never understand why they would let the dog out running and barking around the house when they knew there would be lots of children coming. Yes, I’m paranoid about my girls having dog fleas or hair all over her and worse being bitten by the ’friendly’ dog. I ended up asking KW’s aunt to put the dog back to his cage, as Chloe was so frightened that she refused to step into the house.

We are ‘forced’ to spend the whole day in our not so comfortable costume there till after dinner. Some very well meant cousins of KW took Chloe to play and stuffed her with junks leaving me fumed, as Chloe is a G6PD child meaning she’s not supposed to take anything with cashew nut and fava beans. I’ve clearly and firmly told them not to give Chloe any food without consulting KW or me. They left me no choice but to keep Chloe very close to KW & me.

2nd Day of CNY:
Went back to PIL’s house at noon for lunch and headed back to KW’s maternal granny’s house for early dinner at 1600. Spent almost the whole day there. Less stressful than the 1st day as the crowd and environment are different. Both KW's sis & bro brought along their respective partner to the dinner.

3rd Day of CNY:
KW started to work, leaving me alone with 2 cranky and sick girls. Chloe had slight diarrhoea from all the junks she took and had flu from the extreme weather. Phoebe’s extremely cranky and clingy, as she did not have enough sleep from the previous 2 outings.

6th Day of CNY:
I’m having extremely bad case of flu and headache. Must have got the flu bug from Chloe and the headache from lack of sleep and the blazing weather.

8th Day of CNY (Valentine’s Day):
Saw a very interesting Lion dance at Hugo Boss’s outlet @ Gardens on the way to dinner. Spent about 20 minutes watching the dance as KW & Chloe’s very big fan of Lion Dance. Later, went for dinner at Zanmai @ Gardens and took the girls to Borders. We are supposed to have a family dinner with KW’s paternal side of family but we chose not to go.

9th Day of CNY:
Had another family dinner with KW’s maternal side of relatives.

11th Day of CNY:
FIL was admitted to Pantai Hospital for a suspected case of dengue.

12th Day of CNY:
It’s confirmed that FIL is having dengue fever and have to be warded for few days.

Not a very good start for the year as almost everyone in the family’s sick. Just pray that FIL will be discharged soon and the rest of the year would be a smooth sailing one for us.