Happy New Year 2012

2011, What a Year! It was a year full of ups and downs, dear ones passing, but we hang on and cherish those precious memories which will live with us forever. A year full of natural tragedies, millions of people affected and thousands of lives lost, but we live on and learn from the amazing stories of resilience of Japanese people who have set a new level of human endurance when faced with catastrophe.

So let bygones be bygones and 2012 be a better year than all the others. Year of a more peaceful and greener world, full of forgiveness & mending of broken bond and a year in which each of us would smile more :)

As a famous quote says: "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow". Albert Einstein

Happy New Year to all my blog reader, family, friends & neighbours.

Have a great 1st day of 2012 with these videos (love these):





In loving memories of dear friend Herman Chang & dear auntie (2kim), your memories will stay with us forever.

JibJab 2011 Year Review

We received a JibJab Christmas Card from family and found this platform to be fun and amusing, so I'd like to share this with everyone.

JibJab allows us to insert photographs of people's faces into some animated videos and then emailing it as e-cards.

For a bit of a laugh, here's a JibJab video for 2011 recap:

Happy Lunar New Year

新年快乐 to all those who are celebrating this Lunar New Year. May the new year brings you prosperity, health and happiness.

This is our first ever Lunar New Year in Johor. Since there were only 2 of us, we did not prepare for any decoration and celebration (did spend 4 hours cleaning the house though).

On Lunar NY Eve, we found a few restaurants which were opened in the Sutera area and decided to try the steamboat in Shi Ki (if I remember correctly - it's just in front of the Sutera mall). We ordered the drunken chicken, few types of vegies and prawns for the steamboat plus teriyaki pork belly.

The restaurant was packed with families enjoying their reunion dinners. Overall the meal was quite nice (I prefer Szechuan hot pot though). The meal cost around RM90, so it was rather expensive.

Here are some pictures we took of the area. There are lots of decorations and giant statues in front and near the mall. The "dong dong chiang" song was being played very loudly, so you could definitely feel the spirit of Lunar New Year.

For us, we're having a quiet Lunar NY this year. My family's finally arrived today and we are planning to drive to Melaka. I certainly miss having huge family reunion dinners, will keep that for next year indeed.

Happy Lunar New Year to all!