My CNY

Lucky pick from boss's prosperity tree.

Cheap new clothes

$5 top from bugis street + under $14 skirt from bysi. Decided to go practical this year – buy cheap every day wear instead of impractical stuff like cheongsam.

The cheongsam I was in is my one n only piece. Owned it for about 5 years and wore it for 6 times at most. But nice hor?

CNY Kitty from vendor

The solar-powered kitty that didn’t work on day 1 but has since been consistently moving its head (but not hand), even through the long holidays. My boss’s cat stopped moving. I thought maybe he sapped all the energy from the cat and won big bets during the new year.

McDull’s assets

He started playing black jack with my family since last year and his savings ballooned from $5.50 to $14 this year. Sole winner.

CNY resolution
Vowed to change to a better job (actually my wishes for the past 2 years during new years, birthdays…)
Saw Fann Wong on tv the last few days and was inspired to achieve flawless skin. So I intend to put on facial mask EVERY DAY. Just bought a more boxes of 我的美丽日记masks from Guardian. The good ones so far are the berries and black pearl. The best is of course neutrogena’s hydro boost masks! Can’t afford to eat birds’ nest every day though.

Unexpected ang pows
Got ‘kai1 gong1’ ang pows from the intelligence boss, chairman’s childhood friend sitting nearby, and my china colleague! Used the $ wisely on my masks.

Food
Have been snacking non-stop since we bought goodies 2 weeks back.

The most memorable dish however, was what my mom cooked yesterday – pepper abalone. The black dots aren’t actually pepper but accordingly to my mom, the charred leftovers from the tofu she fried b4 cooking the abalone. The dish was overall tasty, minus the scary dots on the abalone n veggies.

Had my first taste of CNY breakfast this morning – bak kwa sandwich.

Most memorable

The loads of rubbish on the field outside farrer park mrt station on first day of CNY. Maybe the cleaners not working, or IR couldn’t take in so many foreigners, so they just picnicked at the fields.