This year's CNY celebration wasn't any different from the few years before. We drove up to Ipoh in 2 cars on Saturday, the eve of CNY.
Managed to leave BR at 7.10am and got to Subang to join my parents and sis for the exodus trip back. We use Guthrie highway to link to Sungai Buloh on NKVE per dad's suggestion to skip part of the jam. Dont think there's any difference la, still jam and more expensive. Fried some sausages before leaving the house, so had that with bread in the car for breakfast. 3 and half hours later, with one toilet break for the driver. Oh yeah, we ditched the other driver ie my dadmid way as he was driving way too slow...(P/s : This is according to J as I was as usual, dead asleep in the car :p)
A pict of J driving in between lala-land :p
Managed to find our way to Aunt's place in Ipoh with the help of my hazy memory (that what happens when you only make a trip there once a year ;)) and the GPS from my Nokia E71. Very accurate and useful gadget! Laze around once we arrive, dad and family arrived an hour later about 12 noon. But lunch was only consumed at 1+ in the afternoon as we waited for Uncle Joseph & family who left Subang at 9am. Not a fan of most Ipoh hawker food (taste bland to me, more so during CNY period :p), so while the extended family had lunch at the nearby coffeeshop place, J, my sis & Cass my cousin headed to the nearest KFC outlet with the aide of the GPS.
It was a very very hot-weathered CNY in Ipoh, so a quick nap was in order after an early start for the day and heavy lunch. Dinner soon followed at a restaurant downtown, but not before a mad rush of people queing to bathe and ladies (cousins, aunties) waiting for their turn to hog the mirrors getting ready.
Was developing a headache midway dinner and decided to stay home and watch some tv programmes with J while the extended family headed to midnight Mass.
Managed to find our way to Aunt's place in Ipoh with the help of my hazy memory (that what happens when you only make a trip there once a year ;)) and the GPS from my Nokia E71. Very accurate and useful gadget! Laze around once we arrive, dad and family arrived an hour later about 12 noon. But lunch was only consumed at 1+ in the afternoon as we waited for Uncle Joseph & family who left Subang at 9am. Not a fan of most Ipoh hawker food (taste bland to me, more so during CNY period :p), so while the extended family had lunch at the nearby coffeeshop place, J, my sis & Cass my cousin headed to the nearest KFC outlet with the aide of the GPS.
It was a very very hot-weathered CNY in Ipoh, so a quick nap was in order after an early start for the day and heavy lunch. Dinner soon followed at a restaurant downtown, but not before a mad rush of people queing to bathe and ladies (cousins, aunties) waiting for their turn to hog the mirrors getting ready.
Was developing a headache midway dinner and decided to stay home and watch some tv programmes with J while the extended family headed to midnight Mass.
Day 1 CNY saw us attending the 8am mass at St Michael's church, breakfast at some forgettable mamak shop. Went back to Aunt's place and just chilled/napped/snacked/gossipped/cam-whoring before the visiting starts in the afternoon where more snacking and gossipping follows!
Sis requested for picture to be tagged for caller ID/camwhoring session before the visiting begins.
A pict of me and my popo lookalike ie popo's niece who's turning 90 this year! Still going strong. Reminds me alot of my popo, more so when she have her hair permed like how popo (and many other chinese old ladies i see) do. Managed to reached home at only 515pm. 1 hour and 15 minutes before dinner and some 20 odd people queing yet again to shower and dressing up. Dinner was held at another chinese restaurant nearer to home with tastier food but worse off ambience. The place was packed, not much of customer service as the waitresses was rushing us through the dinner so that we can vacate the tables for more customers of the restaurants. Such opportunists, but we still go back year after year cos the food is yummy with reasonable Chinese New Year inflated pricing :p
Since the same KFC lunch group will be heading back to Subang later that night, we had all our bags packed and loaded in the car before heading to the last house visiting destination. My cousin Stephen dubbed it his favourite house amongst all visited that day due to the yummylicious cookies and cakes served! Hehe.
Bid adieu to Ipoh at 10.30pm and since there was not much traffic (according to J again as I was, yep, you guessed it, asleep the moment we hit the highway), reached home sweet home slightly before 12am.
P/s : More pictures to come once I get them from various camera sources :)
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