We were back in Singapore to celebrate CNY with the family in Feb 2008, first time since we relocated to Brisbane. I must say the festive mood in Singapore is so much stronger. The mood in Brisbane is actually non-existent...
Of course, our other aim of coming back is to catch up with family ......... and food!!! (of course lah!)
Had Jap food (forgot name of restaurant) at Bugis with sis and bro and sis-in-law to be....
We also had a walk around Raffles Place, financial district of Singapore. This place has truly changed a lot. When we left in mid 2006, much of the district (especially those that face the sea) was under construction. There were road blocks everywhere. Now, there are about 3 new spanking buildings lining the water's edge (which had been pushed further out...)
One Raffles Link even has an underground "tunnel" to the Raffles Place MRT!! And we saw that staff had to actually swipe their access card into a gantry (much like the MRT's) to get into the lift lobbies! Talk about stringent security sia.... Gone are the days where you can just walk up to any offices in the building...
We also caught up with shopping and had been shopping till we drop (and burnt a bloody big hole in our pockets) right until CNY eve itself!
We had an earlier re-union dinner (around 4.30pm) because my FIL had to work that evening.
On the first day of CNY, we went to visit a few of Esmond's relatives. After the visits, we went to the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple in China Town.
They had a mini exhibition up on level 3 (?) about CNY... so we were horsing around a bit before we headed back to TPY and bought tickets to watch Ah Long Pte Ltd by Fann Wong and Mark Lee.
I must say it was pretty funny... but you'd have to know a fair bit of hokkien to understand the movie, hence probably only Malaysians and Singapeans understand it best. The Singapore movie also took quite a number of jibes and jokes on its next door neighbour too... for this, you'd have to know the recent political history to truly understand it's meaning...
One the morning of the 2nd day, Esmond and I proceeded to JB where we got picked up by my Dad, bro and sis, back to my hometown - BP....
It was good to go back to BP. Mom had cooked up a storm and Kuma was back from Sabah. Because there's not much attractions (or distractions) in BP, we spent most of our time at home, catching up. We not only caught up with each other, we also caught up with our hand held games, comic and hawker food too!
Though we would love to stay in BP forever, it was time for us to head back to SG after a few days.
Back in SG, we caught up with friends for dinner.
Went shopping at Vivo City again.... (even though Esmond caught a cold...)
And even celebrated both YY and Esmond's birthday.... their birth days are just 5 days apart.... Round 1 celebrations at home....
Round 2 celebrations at Swensens @ Orchard.
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