Reunion Dinner - CNY

i was trying to remember if the picture above was a 2004 or 2005 reunion dinner. i have this picture in my wallet all the time since we took it. We were having steamboat like we always do. Fresh fish, prawns and abalone a must, beef, pork, quail eggs (think my mum stopped getting them because she said its really high in cholestrol!), crabsticks, lots of green vegetables (i just can't remember what's the name of that veg we have at steamboat that i like. It's joanne's favourite greens!). And when you are all full, you ladle out the tasty yummy soup from the steamboat and slowly sip away. On such an occasion where you get the whole family sitting together for a meal, that's when we whip out that bottle of red wine. We rarely drink at home until recent years when my dad acquired a taste for red wine. He is always the first to go red from head to neck :).

Today will be the first reunion dinner that i will miss. For the first time since i arrive here in Bali, i miss home, my family and all that chinese customs and festivities. No.1 & 2 text me two days ago and said they would like to buy me a ticket back home just for the weekend for CNY.It took forever to get through to any agents and there were no flights available till next week. sigh... It would have been a nice surprise for mum. Boy, i really miss home now.

I brought the picture below with me too. It's a photo of my grams,cousins and siblings taken probably more than 20 years ago. It was taken at Circuit Road (grams' old flat) probably at some Christmas, New Year or one of the gram's birthday. Can you spot me? :) Clam clam & dom dom: you were not out yet. Lucy Lam, sorry ha ha.. i know it's not the most beautiful picture of you. but look at what a meili gu-niang you turn out :)... Wei wei.. you look so cute even while you are wailing away. :) ... Hope you all have a wonderful reunion and pig out on my behalf and give Ma-ma a big hug for me. Hmm... I wonder if my mum will be helping me to keep my ang baos :)...