YU SHENG

One thing new this Chinese New Year is the existence of "Yu Sheng".. a dish created "just for fun!" Where it hails from and how it looks like. It brings a whole new meaning to playing with your food....and STILL eating it later.

More pics of the plentiful and traditional CHUA/LO household dishes we all enjoyed.

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Yu Sheng
Fish Maw soup with prawn and pork balls
Pork trotter with mushrooms
8 treasure Pork dish ~
(Abalone, scallops, mussels, seaweed, prawns, sea cucumber, mushroom)
Chicken Curry
Chinese Leek in Prawns
Pork mince rolled in Tofu skin
Crispy Skin Roast Pork
Lots of good wine
Sago with fresh Coconut milk and Palm sugar

Anything else?..

"GONG XI FA CHAI"

This decoration piece is priceless...will keep it even when we return to Aust land!
(the chinese character mean"May All things be successful and according to your will!)

New clothes! Yes, it's a must for the CNY! Kind courtessy of grandma GH and Ee-ee Audrey!

RED! The auspicious colour...we did it PROPERLY this year!

When we will meet again? Family gatherings...loads of fun!
(From UK, Kuching, Australia, Holland all gathered in Singapore)

CNY eve chinese girls!
(backdrop courtesy of the LO household)

Our Trip to Chinatown (Again!)

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How beautiful IS the chinese culture!! I am learning everyday!

Colours everywhere!

Munchies anyone?

Bamboos, symbols of longevity. Red is the lucky and prosperous colour!

Lanterns to light up the dark and crackers to scare the evil ones away!

Happy and Prosperous PIG Lunar Year!

Flowers of Spring! The redder the better!

Chinese decorations and "prosperity" symbols.

Bak Kwa (chinese BBQ meat jerky)
No Chinese New Year is complete without it.

Baby dragon dance dolls, cute!

Pig (Boar) paraphernalias!

Love Languages at home

My girls depend strongly on "Quality Time" for their well being. I have recently found that by giving them all the cosy mommy moments(up to 5mins each child) during the day, they are very happy to be independant long enough for me to "do my own thing".

Often quality time does not have to come from one source. With plenty of sunshine, water play equiptment and Aunties/Uncles willing to be there, my girls had a complete ball of a time for a couple of hours. They were in bed, happy but exhausted by 7.30pm! I then had quality SLEEP after that too! Thanks R & C for a lovely day at the British Club!

Touchpoints of Love

Week 3 of "Growing Kids God's Way"
At GKGW today, we were reminded that "Every day we choose to love, and every day we choose NOT to love". We were given the basic vehicle to know "how" to love effectively and making sure that it "works". GKGW introduced the 5 love languages based on the famous book "5 love languages by Dr Gary Chapman". Great Stuff! The 5 love languages spoken were:
1) Words of Encouragement
2) Acts of service
3) Gift giving
4) Quality Time
5) Physical touch & closeness

After 3 rounds of GKGW, I can still see that my love language stands a mile away from Alex's. I am a "acts of service"/gift giving person while he's vey much a "Words of encouragement"/"Physical touch/closeness" person. Letitia is looming with a little bit of "direction" when I slowly observe where Mathena is still "All of the above, please!"

Now, the reality is to take these lessons and apply to real life and CHOOSE to LOVE!!

On a separate note: Alex and I successfully (but struggled) experience "Cyber-couchtime" last week. The effort is still weak but the spirit is STRONG. The force is with us and we actually enjoyed the time on video cam. Thank GOD for technology!!