Chinese New Year Day 7

Went to 2nd Aunt's house in AMK to visit in the evening, and then to Gim Tim restaurant to have our annual yu sheng dinner. My cousins and I occupied our usual 'kiddie' table, while the other relatives took up three tables.

The 'kiddie' table with Ah Ping as the ginna tao

Waste no time, serve us our yu sheng!

Only there were no salmon slices, because 2nd Aunt requested for abalone slices instead. Yoohoo! We began to fling around the contents of the yu sheng madly while Wee was enthusiastically shouting all the four-word New Year wishes. Then we all began to hunt down the abalone slices one by one.

Next was the shark fins soup. I was glad because Ah Ping and I were granted the privilege of being served the soup sans beansprouts, because it was soon discovered that the beansprouts were barely cooked! Hyuk hyuk!

Then came the mock roast chicken, vegetables with mushrooms and rubbery abalone slices (which I suspected were imitations), Monk Jumps Over Wall, steamed grouper (which, according to Wee, must be eaten with its JUICE), sweet and sour prawns (fresh!) and glutinous rice.

Some herbal goodness from the MJOW

A big yummy prawn

You will not believe these two muggers actually brought their textbooks there to study while the rest of us were basking in the lively cheer of the banquet. Henglip's medical textbook looks like it had gone through at least 5 aspiring medical students despite his claims that it is actually first-hand.

Wee and I were rocking the table with our stupid ideas about faxing and shredding little aquarium fishes. We even decided to pull the 'Tickle-the-Chin' stunt on Ah Sir. Wee's laughter is disgusting.



The star of tonight's dinner: yam paste with ginko nuts! (Anyone who detests those bitter ginko nuts, you can dump them onto Ah Sir's plate because she practically eats everything from Chinese mushrooms (yucks) to fish maw (double yucks))


After that sumptuous dinner, we returned to 2nd Aunt's house for (what else but) gambling. We huddled around a small round table with only a small fan offering minimal respite from the night's humidity. However, there was a small problem with the fan and my aunts thought that PUB was behind it.



Apparently, both the dealers and the punters were not having good luck.



In fact, 2nd Aunt was having such bad luck that whenever she was the dealer for hian niao, we would exercise our cursing power and she would indeed get shitty cards (just like Day 2).

Halfway through gambling, Wee and I were up to some mischief again.

It was Tickle-the-Chin for Ah Sir again!

We made fun of 2nd Aunt because she was such a good sport! Look at her blowing kisses at us!

Sexy 'Ah Ruan' Monroe

We tickled 4th Aunt too because she was slightly more challenging. Luckily she did not snap at us. She even fended off our pesky camera celebrity-style!

I started to get ambitious and wanted to make fun of fiery 1st 'Sound Machine' Aunt (who roars like a dinosaur), but I was not sitting near her and Wee was scolding me "crazy" for even thinking of that. Next time then.

What went on: I was defamed for being a bad girl just because I was holding a beer can which was actually shared between me, Wee, Henglip and Haoling. Wee had exceptionally good luck when being the dealer for see kee (only), and because of that, she refused to play other games (what an ass)! Ah Sir would always be a victim to our nefarious compulsions: Even though she had made some meagre winnings from being a dealer for a few rounds, we would goad her into continuing to play, and her meagre winnings would be gone within minutes.

Even though it was already 1.30am and the aunties were tired out, I still could not get enough of gambling. Looking forward to the final CNY gathering at 4th Aunt's house on Saturday!