The CNY, 2010 (part 1)

Both my dad and mum come from big families, they have a lot of siblings, so the CNY is usually very happening for us.

This is the usual activity at my father's side  family, poker gambling. The lady in red shirt is my legendary aunt(I've mentioned bt her a few times in the blog), as the banker, and her two little devils won't give her a break. And the kids sitting in a circle including the two devils are my cousins. I'm the eldest daughter in the family.

While the men are playing mahjong, my popo was very busy in the kitchen. She was always the main cook during CNY, ever since...like forever. She can cook the best hakka dishes. Hakka dishes are generally aren't very delicate, they are served in very big portions. 

My popo very cute can! When she knew I was taking her picture she said "Aiyo, let you took my pic edi!"(in Hakka) She then proceeded to pose for my camera for another shoot! Hahaha.

I love my popo and she's one of my most favourite person in the world. I miss her!

And my mum was helping out!

These are the simple ingredients to the yummiest dishes of the year.(Actually every year it's the same thing and yet it's still the hottest!)

The 'Chai Choi', some vege and dried bean curd sticks(fuzhu) cooked with fermented bean curd, it must have a name for it I don't know what's it.

My brother and my 'ah sou' who was never shy about taking pictures!

On day one of CNY, we can only eat vegetarian. Look at the variety of vegetarian dishes! I know they don't look very tempting because they are of a colour series(lol) but they are indeed very yummy, whatever u want, we have it in vegetarian version, fish, roasted goose/duck, pork ribs, chicken feet and etc., you name it, we have it.

Then before midnight , we 'open fast' by having a whole roasted pig. Too bad we(my immediate family) din stay long enough for the roasted pig. And the next day lion dance will come to every houses!! This is one of my favourite session. Too bad I didn't get to see it this year.

This is another picture of me at Genting.

Had got nothing to do when my aunt was fighting the wars in the casino with the Lim's!

This is the 1st hamper I've ever bought and it's for my 'yifu' and family. Was expecting them to be happy over it(especially my 'yi' sis and bro), my 'yifu' asked me not to buy them anymore hamper because first, it's a waste of money and 2nd,they have got enough of snacks at home. =p Okie, bad choice of buah tangan. 

(to be continued....)

The Rabbit House

When I was young, my cousin sister was my best playmate probably because we were of same age. We were very close ever since I had memory eventhough we couldn't communicate orally yet. Haha. This is because before my pre-school education I could speak only Hakka and she could speak only English.But we managed to play masak-masak, hide-and-seek, Barbie Doll together through body language.

This is a toy we made almost 10 years back.All these while I had been keeping it on top of the cupboard because she warned me not to throw it away.

 

We made a miniature house using some unwanted stuff.Then, we made two rabbits representing us and making this officially the rabbit house.

This is the living room at the 2nd floor. The teapot I took from my Barbie Doll. The orange thing is dumbbells,also my Barbie's gadget.

It has got two opening, linking to the kitchen(right) and the washroom(left). Can you see the toilet bowl and the frying pan? The toilet bowl is damn cute.

Closer look at the bathroom.Fully equipped with sink,toilet paper,towel,trench...

The other side of the bathroom has got bathtub, shower head and soap tray.

The bathroom is mostly made by my cousin sis. She is more of a art person, quite ingenious. Can write well and draw well. Now she is working at advertisement line, really her kind of things.She is a blogger too.

The kitchen, also made by her.You can see the very cute knife, chopping board, the standing knife holder...

Another view of it.

The lower floor which is the bedroom.

Very roughly made, because this is done by me.=/

The TV, this is the best I could draw.

The bulky desktop, that was what we had back then.

Very laoya and damn big air-con, very cincai drawn picture, and a telephone, with the receiver hanging on the floor.

Haha, childhood memories. But I'd given it to my younger cousin sister already, together with all my Barbie Dolls, or else they will all be thrown away already.

PS: Sorry for the bad quality of the pictures, all taken with my camera phone. That's why I'm contemplating to get my own digital camera.

My Stay at SDMC

This year itself, my mum had operations twice because she was diagnosed to have had colon cancer.


It was very early stage when found out but we didn't want to take a chance. Few weeks later, she was in the hospital ready for the operation already. It was quite a major surgery, part of her big intestine had to be remove along with her rectum.


After the surgery, my mum actually asked the surgeon the length of the intestine he had actually removed, he just smiled and didn't want to answer. My mum asked again, "8 or 9 iches?" Then he said, "Around there." So I believe it's longer than that. The surgeon added, "Not to worry, it's useless anyway."


During the first surgery(April), the surgeon cut a stoma in her stomach for her to pass motion while giving time for intestine to join properly. My mum couldn't take the surgery very well, she had fever for a few days and suffered from the side effect from the anesthetic (believed to be), she couldn't pass urine by herself, a small tube has be inserted into her urethra when she felt like going to the ladies(luckily this problem has gone after she was discharged). She was not allowed to eat or drink for the first two days after the operation, only sip of water to dampen her lips, so pity. Her weight dropped from 40kg to 35kg.





During weekends I took over the shift from my sister so that she can sleep at home. We didn't pay for extra bed so staying overnight means having to sleep on the armed chair, which was very torturing.


And I brought my lappy as my companion.





Apa boleh buat kalau bukan facebooking? I was playing Restaurant City.


By then, my mum was much better already, can eat soft food and walk around the room.





You can see my mum's left arm is swollen from the drips.


The next bed patient's daughter and my mum. She was so curious with everything, when I was using the laptop, I heard her asking her mum, "Why the aunty beside has got TV?" Then my mum ajak her to come over.She was 4 years old,I think her name is Sabrina or Natasha.





The view outside the window.

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In July, my mum came back for the second surgery.

This time round, I took leave from the college to accompany her.The surgeon will seal the stoma and re-join the small intestine to the big intestine. After this,my mum could go to the toilet like normal.


The Pink Thing.





I bought TPT from the pharmacy downstairs to teman me.





We got the same bed again. The number 5880 did come out the first day we came in.





This was the place I eat, sleep and study! That time was right before my midterm so had to be rajin a bit.


But there's always time for camwhoring.








I actually kinda liked the food there in SDMC, I had no idea a hospital actually provide good food. So, the few days there, besides studying, buying books(I didn't bring my laptop this time, I need to study what), I also pretty much enjoyed discovering good food there. The fish porridge there had a lot and a lot of fish slices. Even ordinary fried bihun here doesn't taste like ordinary fried bihun. And the bread is super soft and yummy *droolss*.



My mum is now left with a vertical 10 inches scar stretching out all the way from her abdomen to her lower tummy and a two inches one at the side where the stoma previously was. However, she is fine now and getting stronger.