Happy Chinese New Year 新年快乐!

Wishing all my family, relative and friends a Happy Chinese New Year! Wish everyone good luck in this Cow year!

This is the very first time time in my life to spend Chinese New Year without our family with me. Same for my hubby. When we were in Singapore, Chinese New Year is a very busy season for us. All the preparation, making of New Year goodies and of course helping out at hubby's sister's florist. But this year.. hm.. it's so boring. We hardly had any mood to do any preparation nor spring cleaning.

Haha.. this is the photo we took at our home in USA..my.. no mandarin oranges so we used normal orange as a sign. Haha.. better than nothing. Not bad ah.. at least I have Kong Guan egg rolls! haha..

At Singapore's timing of New Year's Eve, I had a web cam session with my family. Seeing them eat reunion dinner. Feel so sad.. can only see them eat but there isn't my share.. sob sob. But at least thru the web cam, I can see that everyone of them looks healthy and I can set my mind at ease. Well.. after seeing my family member's of cos not to forget my in-laws. We also had a web cam session with them.. but hubby and I woke up at 6.30am to chat with them. Haha..

On Chinese New Year's Eve, we met the guys early in the morning 10.30am to have reunion dim sum at Great Wall. After that, we went shopping at Scottsdale and follow by going to the casino to try our luck. Hmm.. average only. Lastly, we had supper at Denny's. No count down..no fire crackers.. no fireworks.. no lion dance. Haiz.. Oh..btw, there wasn't many of us.. Just me, my hubby, Patrick, Joe, Robin and Ah Chua. The rest of the guys went to Flagstaff. We intended to go in the first place..but on second thought, I still think it's not safe for me and so we decide to stay in Arizona to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Yeah! It's the first day of Chinese New Year. We met the guys at 11.30am and we went to the temple to pray. Just like what we used to do in Singapore. Pray for health and hope everything
will go smoothly for everyone. And I also pray that my big uncle will be fine. Hope he can recover fast and wait for me to go back.

After praying, we went to a Thai restaurant for lunch. Nice.. but abit too spicy..haha.. After lunch we went to buy some grocery and lastly we went to Patrick's place and play PSP3. We played the Time Crisis 4. Awesome! And hubby they all formed the Rock band. Wahaha.. Nice huh! We played till almost 3am den we went home. Really enjoyed!

After we came home.. we started to cook the tea eggs. . We slept around 4+ and woke up 10am the next day..so tiring. We are having a gathering at Mr Ting's place and we are to bring some food over. There's so many nice food and we had steamboat also. Haha.. because we are using white eggs instead of brown eggs so the egg color is not as dark as what we have in Singapore Pasar Malam. Keke..

Well.. 2 days of Chinese New Year just past like this.. No Ang Pao :( ..keke.. no lar.. I got 1! From my dear hubby! Haha.. One more boring Chinese New Year in the desert and we can go home! Yeah.. time is passing fast!