Mummy's Birthday Part 4

Mummy really has a lot of birthday celebrations this year. Mummy's Chinese birthday actually falls on the 6th day of Chinese New Year so Nanna and Gong Gong had a small celebration for her together with Chinese New Year dinner with Ah Mah and Ah Gong. All of us, including Daddy's sisters and their families, went for dinner at Maple Palace Restaurant.

This is me, Mummy and Daddy outside the restaurant:



Mummy's cutting her cake; also from Baskin Robbins :)



Mummy and Daddy:



This is Mummy and Daddy together with Ee Ee and Ah Cik:



We also managed to get photos of all my cousins and their mummies and daddies. This is Xiao Ku and her family:



Da Ku and her family:



Er Ku and her family; Kor Kor Benji and Brian are twins too, just like Er Ku and Xiao Ku. Can you see it? :)



We also took a group photo outside the restaurant. Now you know why I got so many ang pows ;)

Photos taken by Gong Gong

Gong Gong took lots of pictures of me while he was here during Chinese New Year. Here are some of them:

Fast asleep:



Just woke up!



Don't take my picture!



Stretch.....!



I went kai-kai with Gong Gong:



Here I am playing with Sarah:



With Chek Kong Chor (Great-granduncle):



After bath:

Busy Mummy

My Mummy is very busy this few days so she says sorry for the blogging hiatus mode. She says she will be back, hopefully by next week! :)

Hannah's first Chinese New Year

The night before Chinese New Year, we had our usual reunion steamboat dinner at in-law's place. This year, Hannah is around to join us and we got her a high chair so she could sit at the table with everyone even though she couldn't really eat anything yet.


Hannah and her cousin Pei Yi eyeing the food


"Hmm...what should I have? So many choices!"


"Daddy, I want that one! Why is everyone always taking pictures?"

We had the usual spread..looks yummy! :)



On the first day of Chinese New Year, Hannah woke up to 2 red packets (more like pink packets) from Mummy and Daddy! Look at her blur blur face with the pacifier still in her mouth, but waving around the ang pow.



After everyone had gotten up, bathed and changed into new clothes, we went over to my parents' place. Hannah got another ang pow from Gong Gong and Nanna.



We later went visiting to other relatives' homes and she got many ang pows. She can hold her milk bottle in one hand and her ang pow in the other hand. So ho liao.



In the evening, her Ah Mah tied her hair in the "Chun Li" style again before we went out.



On the second day, we got ready to go to Hubby's grandpa's place. Before leaving the house, we took a family photo at the door.



Close-up:



Before going to Hubby's grandpa's house however, we stopped over at my parents' place again because my grandma came to visit. So Hannah got another ang pow from her Ah Chor.



In this picture you can finally see Hannah's two little teeth at the bottom:



I like this picture very much. Nice photo of Hannah and Daddy.



On the second day, all Hannah's girl cousins were going to wear the traditional "qi pao" so we managed to find Hannah's outfit at Tesco for only RM8.88. She could not really fit into the normal "qi pao" because it was too big, so we found a cute top and pants for her.

Here she is taking a picture with her cousins in their "qi pao" (one is hiding at the back so cannot see her outfit):



Oh yes, and Hannah also got an ang pow from her Gong Tai. He is indeed very aged now so we find it a blessing that Hannah gets to spend this Chinese New Year with him.



Wishing all of you a very blessed and prosperous Chinese New Year!

"Xin Nian Kuai Le, Wan Shi Ru Yi, Nian Nian You Yu!"

Out with Nanna and Gong Gong

Last Saturday, Nanna and Gong Gong brought me kai-kai at Youth Park early in the morning. We took lots of photos, as usual! :)

This is me with Gong Gong. I like him to carry me very much.



Daddy took a photo of all of us:



And of yours truly:



They still wanted to take photos but I was getting restless because I wanted to go and play in the playground!



Now I am happy. See my feet can now touch the ground. Mummy says it shows how much I have grown.



More photos; with Mummy and Nanna:



And then with Gong Gong and Daddy:



Our little family!

Suffolk House, Penang

On my birthday this year, Hubby took me to a nice restaurant here in Penang which many people may not know about. It's an old heritage house which part of it has been turned into a fine dining restaurant. The place itself is called Suffolk House and the location is just behind Methodist Boys' School.

My parents were so kind as to look after Hannah so we could go and have a nice lunch. We both took off from work on the day so we could spend more time together. It was supposed to be dinner, but Hubby was called to a late meeting at the last minute so we did lunch instead.

When he called to book and enquire, he was told that it would be between RM85 to RM120 per person, however, when we came for lunch, we were pleasantly surprised to see that the prices were very affordable, ranging from between 30 something to 50 something plus plus per set. The price he was quoted was probably for their dinner sets which are more elaborate.

See the happy faces of people who didn't need to pay as much as expected :) Okay, okay, I guess we were happy to be there and enjoying each other's company too! :)



For starters, I had the salad which was very delicious. I am not a food blogger so I am not that good in describing the food, therefore I will let the pictures do the talking.



Hubby had the soup which was a strange mixture of peas and mint, but it tasted very good!



For the main course we had chicken and salmon. Hubby's chicken was really good with the orange flavour being infused into the chicken. My salmon was also very fresh and the mash potatoes which came with it were scrumptious!



For dessert it was chocolate brownies with ice cream. The brownies were warm and soft and chocolatey, just the way I like it! And the ice cream was chock-full of nuts, chocolate chips and cherries (probably made by the chef himself and not bought from the store).



We then took the opportunity to take lots of photos around the house and the grounds. Here are some of them:





This is what greeted us at the entrance:



Now you can see the whole banner:



Bridge over troubled waters - nice!



Thanks Hubby for a wonderful afternoon! I would recommend this place to anyone who enjoys eating, drinking and taking in a wonderful view! :)