Thean Hou Temple

Sorry I didn't post that often last week. Was sick sick sick for the past 2 weeks. Started with stomach discomfort and now I'm getting this sore throat and flu.

Here are some pictures I took at the 14th day of Chinese New Year.

This year I didn't went to Kek Lok Si at Penang, but TS was so kind that he bring me to Thean Hou Temple at KL.

The queue towards the temple was so long. Traffic was very bad. It was jamming from the hillside. There is a place where the roads up to the hill is around 45 degrees slanting up. And it is a huge jam on that road.

TS drove and park somewhere middle of the hill. We park our car beside the road side and walk up. So of them even park their car down the hill and climb up.

Here is the entrance of the temple. Beautiful lighting. Click to enlarge picture.

Really "People moutain people sea" (人山人海). It was so crowd.

12 chinese zodiac sign of animals in front of the temple. They were made from colorful lanterns.

Mine chinese zodiac - Cute Roster

There is another huge lantern with a cow on the top tip of the lantern. Decorated with the rest of 12 chinese zodiac and lovely lotus flower.

On top of the temple, where they put the god statue was decorated with thousand of red lanterns.

See how many peoples are there below these beautiful lanterns

Chinese New Year 2009 @ KL

Some lovely pictures I would like to share around which I took before Chinese New Year at Kuala Lumpur.

Aloha decorations for Chinese New Year. Those "Choy San Ye" aka God of Prosperity looks so fat and so cute~~ I remember the last hallowen decorations was allsome too.



Decorations at The Curve. It was quite a disappoitment to me as the decorations seems like too simple. The Curve always makes me shock on the beautiful decorations for festivals.

Some nice shoot of me with hell boy~~

I found Kung Fu Panda too....He is just too cute

Some Lion Dance show at Cineleisure near the curve. I enjoy this lion dance as they have added more small naughty act and some expression such as shivering if they are going to preform a hard task.... It is kinda different compare to those lion dance which I watch at my hometown.

I was so lazy that I hard take any pictures at Penang. So that's all for my chinese new year picture of the year.

Chinse New Year 2009 at Penang

Happy Chinese New Year 2009 to all my friends.

Been missing almost one week. Not reading blogs nor updating my blog. Relaxing the holidays break for CNY was extreemly joyful and happy.

Was just lying at my home sofa, watch movies, playing with my 2 poodles with their new toys. Enjoying CNY cookies, drinks.... did I gain weight this time?

This is the first year we went to your uncle's house to have reunion dinner. For all the past years, my uncle and his family will visit us for reunion dinner.

The first 2 days was just visiting relatives. I have to avoid myself on this questions "When are you going to get married?". "When are you going to have babies?"... Aiyo~~ I don't really know how to answer....

The 3rd day we went to visit our babysister. She take care 4 of our brothers sisters for a reasonable price when we are young. We visit them every year. This year was a good surprise year that we meet her eldest son which I never meet him after he went to New Zealand for studies when I was 7 years old. Me and my family have a good chat with him, his mum (our babysister) and dad too.

The following days was just wondering at home, either go shopping with my sisters. Was really so lazy to go out to visit friends, but my this good friend - Sze Ling and her bf come to visit me on her birthday. So touch~!. Beside that I manage to hook up with 5 of my best friends at high school before coming back to KL tomorow.

My mum organise a dinner steamboat for her friends at friday night and we have a good meal. Her friend makes good tomyam soup. Everyone was having a great time. There is so much to eat (my mum over prepare) and we have to eat those left overs foods for few days consecutive.

My sister brought abalone this year and it was the first year our family enjoy abalone at home. There are quite expensive. 1 tin was SGD40++. But it taste quite good just on steaming it with hot water for few minutes. It taste fresh and good.

Will enjoy the rest of the day and it a brand new year to go.

Chinese New Year 2009 @ Singapore

Was kinda busy for the past few days. Rushing and rushing for work to be finish before I go for my Chinese New Year Holidays.

Here are some of the decorations at China Town, Singapore in my last visit during the year end.

The decoration wasn't that grand compare to my last stay at Singapore. I am not sure if I'm too early on viewing the decorations.

Cow decorations among the road sides.

This is way too beautiful compare to Malaysia. We have only have red lanterns along the road sides.

4 different cow statue

Closer look on those cows

I love these, there are so cute~~

Red lanterns and red decorations on the roadside among the shop houses.

This year, due to the bad economy, seems like alot shopping malls at Malaysia have also cut down on decorations. There are not as beautiful and as grand at few years back.

Winner for Chinese New Year cards Giveaway

Here are the 2 lucky winners of the Chinese New Year cards Giveaway.
1. Joan
2. Camy

Please email me your address asap to ciyouong@yahoo.com. I would like you all to receive them before CNY.

Thanks for everyone that participate in this giveaway.

Here are some more Chinese New Year Cards that I made. This year, both of my brothers are not coming back for Chinese New Year. I made them some and sent the rest to my friends.

Chinese New Year cards Giveaway

Chinese New Year is around the conner. Really looking for it. Any CNY mood yet?

Did some card for the pass few days. Start carving again, some simple ones. My housemate purposely turn on some CNY songs while I am doing those cards. I'm now really on a CNY mood.

I am giving away this 2 handmade cards to 2 lucky readers. Just comment on this post to win. Due date is 17 Jan 2009 Sat, 12 midnight Malaysia Time. I will randomly select 2 lucky winners.

Good Luck.

Bukit Genting Hill, Penang

Bukit Genting Hill is a hill at Penang, not at Genting Highlands on Kuala Lumpur. This is the 2nd time I visit there. This was before Chinese New Year. My dad would like to take my brother to this place. To see sunset. This place is located at a road between Teluk Kumbar and Balik Pulau (take a left turn when you see huge water storage tank)

Its kinda a recreation place to let people relax and have Thai Food. As it was on top of a small hill, there are cool wind blowing on us. In front of the restoran, there are tons of picture in the message board indicating there are customers from all over the world had come to visit them. There even have handmade tins on decoration beside the message board. The best thing that price wouldn't increase at Chinese New Year. Because usually will increase dramatically during Chinese New Year.

1. Entrance: Open Daily
2. Brother at the "Gong Xi Fa Cai" banner
3. Message board of picture
4. Decoration made from can tin

The view from the restoran - Balik Pulau and the sea, I heard the sea there very clean as there as less access to that part. I live at Penang so long, but didn't went there before.



1,2,4. Garden View
3. Place to sit

Decoration on the hill side, took the photo from the place that people have dinner. It is very pretty at night when they open the lights.


The thai food here are delicous. RM150 for 7 dishes + desert + drinks. Price reasonable.

1. Fried Vegetable (Kangkung)
2. Otak otak
3. Green Curry - spicy
4. Panda Chickhen
5. Mango Kerabu
6. Tom Yam Seafood - very sour and spicy
7. Dessert
8. Spicy fish

I highly recommended, must make sure that your car to powerfull to get on top of the hill. the roads are somehow like Genting Roads, yet smaller and narrower.

We manage to snap some family pictures from it.

Lush Bubble Bath

My brother which is currently stay in Canada came back for Chinese New Year. It's been 2-3 years that we didn't meet. He was fairer then last time. Even fairer then me. But nothing much change on his apperance. Still as good looking as before.

He brought us, 2 sisters present from Canada, bubble baths from Canada. Mine is pink (how he know's I love pink) and my sister is blue. The pink smell good, but sometimes too strong until my whole room are full of cherry smells.

We don't have bath tub at home, nor at my KL house. All I can do it to dissolve it in to water and just take a bath. Even that it will leave my skin soft and smooth. I could foresee if really we put ourself on bubble bath, its will be sure relaxing and I will be smelling like cherry and have smooth skin later.

Due to it is natural products, it will be expiring end of this year. Hope I could find a bath tub soon as some are bubble bomb, I can't cut them into pieces.

HK Wong Kok Kitchen - Worst

HK Wong Kok Kitchen at Queensbay mall is the worst Hong Kong Tea Restarant that I ever had. We 13 people - my family and my 6th aunty family and grandma went there for lunch. There is no table for 13 of us, so we have seperate into 2 tables. One is Parents table and another is Youngster table.

All I enjoy is the gathering among relatives for that lunch. My younger brother have to eat 4 remainding dishes as we girls and mum couldn't finish those dish. Poor guy.


The normal food is still ok, but the choice is really less. When I went in, most of us mistaken it was the Wong Kok that we have at Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur Wong Kok have alot kinds of food and drinks and if your birthday gal or guy, you will get 1 free GIANT Milk Tea. But this was not the one that I mention. How can it be the same name?? Very misleading the public.

I was very unsatisfy with the food there. Especially the small dishes. Everytime I visit Hong Kong Tea Restrant, I sure will order my favorite Fried dumpling and TS will always order fried chickhen wings. But I'm totally not satisfy with this.


The left is what they put on the catalog and the right hand side is the one I get. The dumpling become way too small, and RM6.00 for 4 small dumpling is way too expensive compare to KL. I get more then 4 fried dumpling here in KL. And the dumpling is not nice at all, very hard, no much filling inside.

The worst was the fried chickhen wings. At kl, almost all Hong Kong Restarant will serve the whole chickhen wing which consist of 3 parts. I didn't even notice the catalog this serve only 2 parts. And you can see what it came. 1 and a half chickhen wings left. And this is the part that I won't eat and there is less meat to eat. This is too much

I will never go there to eat anymore.

Prayers

Chinese new year we have our reunion dinner, what about our great grand ancestors? Do they celebrate Chinese New Year? Yes they do, at morning of the Chinese New Year eve. They have a lot of delicious vegetarian and fruits for servering.



After the prayer here, we need to head to pray my grandparents at Air Itam.

Chinese New Year Reunion Dinners 2008

Finally I have some time to write down bit and bits of my Chinese New Year celebration. Don't know next year will I have a chance to have reunion dinner with my family or I need to celebrate with my bf family :(

Why I called them Dinners? because there are not only 1 dinner, but more then that.

First is my family dinner. Where we have that it at the Chinese New YEar eve. All these years, we will invite my uncle (my dad's younger brother) to join us for renunion dinner as they are only 3 members of them at their family. It will be lonely for them. For us, we are OK, because my parents have 4 of us. So total of people we have = 9.

Its as usual, steambot dinner. With things that we love, like sea cucumber, squids, bird eggs...

The fun part is when the steamboat cover open, all of us will rush and fight to find those small food that we want. Its fun, althought I know we are not at the age of a small kids.

WE have to tie our dogs away as they are begging for food as they see so many of us enjoying the meal


The 2nd reunion dinner was my mums Jit Sin High School Reunion Dinner. Her batch of students were great, after gratuation for 30 years, they still have this Reunion Dinner for that year. It was always the 1st day of CNY as adults mostly are very busy and the only day they will be at home is the 1st day. We been following my mum to her reunion dinner several times. She was very proud of this reunion thing.



It was just a Buffet dinner but it was quite a good one. Compared to the last year dinner at the hotel. I over told the dishes and I felt way too full for me.

There were lucky draw, entertainments, group dance for those auntie and uncles. But quite boring for us. We even get ang pow from this Lady which is the chairman wife of the alummi. I think I'm the oldest to get ang pow. We chinese will still get angpow in any age if you are not married.

The 3rd reunion dinner was we went to my Dad's friend new year gathering at an apartment at gurney. I heard he was an Dato and he was an old friend of my Dad. I was wanted to visit his house, but no opportunity. I heard it was a penhouse at the appartment with 2 stores and personal swiming pool. Cool~~ The house I think will cause millons as it is a strategic place on gurney.

Food was so-so, no much choice. Its kinda boring, there is a karaoke section for any one that want to sing. Maybe all people is shy, ended up the host and his son sang the most. My dad and my brother manage to sing there too. Jay Chow with Fei Yu Qing 千里之外, don't see my dad like an old man, he even and sing the rap part of Jay chows.




Its good for those parents that can still keep contact with their old friends and schoolmates. Rather then 2 old person at home nothing to do. We, the younger generation, I didn't even attend one of our schools or collages reunion dinner or gathering.