Wednesday, February 11, 2009
KL Diary - The Celebration
With daddy's initiative, we spent CNY away from home this year, at a beach resort in Batu Ferringhi Penang. To avoid the *massive traffic jam* that everyone warned us about, we set off at 6am on CNY eve but with luck the journey was smooth.
We went up in two cars - daddy, yeh-yeh, ma-ma, Dominic and myself in one and my brother-in-law's family (including Dominic's favourite Joe and WS) in another. All throughout the journey, if Dominic wasn't asleep, he would ask about Joe Joe and Wing Sern. When they were finally reunited in Penang, Dominic ran over and gave them a bigggg hug as if they had not seen each other for years.
We spent the next two days swimming and playing by the beach. We had our reunion dinner in the hotel and daddy won a lucky draw - complimentary Indian Cuisine for 2 - which we gave to my uncle who lives in Penang.
We put on our bright red new clothes on the 1st day of CNY and had a very satisfying hotel breakfast. It was a merry CNY since there was lion dance and 'Choy San Yeh' at the hotel lobby. The 'Choy San Yeh' could've been a Malay or something because he couldn't understand anything I said and he didn't speak a single word. The ang-moh 'Choy San Yeh' we met in London last year was even more convincing than that.
After that, of course it was swimming time - something that the kids had been bugging us about since the night before.
The next day, we headed down to Ipoh to meet my grandmother.
This year we received a lot of ang pows on behalf of Dominic, but we also gave out a big amount. Anyway, questions:
1) How much in general do you give in an ang pow?
2) Do you give ang pows to your unmarried friends who are older or around the same age as you?
3) Do you give ang pows to your younger siblings who are married?
4) Do you give ang pows to your older siblings who are not married?
