First of May

Let me tell you about what happened on the First of May. As you all may know, it was a public holiday - Labour Day. Mummy says that it is a waste when public holidays fall on Saturdays because there is no replacement holiday.

Anyway, Mummy and I had two separate events on that day. Let me talk about where Mummy went first.

From 29th April to 1st May, Penang hosted the annual Malaysia-Singapore Bench and Bar Games. It is quite a big event whereby judges and lawyers from Malaysia and Singapore come together to participate in friendly and competitive sports events. The event culminated in a big gala dinner held at G Hotel on Saturday night.

Mummy was part of the organising committee for the dinner so she had to go there early. I took a picture in the car with Mummy before Daddy dropped her off. It was a good decision for Mummy not to drive because the whole of Gurney Drive was jammed and a lot of people arrived late for the dinner.



Mummy with some of her organising committee members outside the ballroom before the dinner started:



This is the entire dinner organising committee:



Mummy with some of her colleagues:



What is happening in the picture below is called a "boat race". This does not actually involve any boats, as Mummy found out early on in practice. She initially thought that this event did in fact literally mean "boat race" as in "dragon boat race". She was to find out that "boat race" for lawyers means a beer-drinking competition. The reason they call it the boat race is because "boat" stands for "Beer On A Table". Two teams of players have to take it in turns to finish an entire glass of beer (with no spills) and whichever team finishes first, wins. Interesting right?



These are Mummy's friends from KL:



More friends from KL and Ipoh:



So Mummy pretty much had a good time there.

Now, let me tell you what Daddy and I did. First of May is also Ah Gong's birthday, so we all had a small party for him at home. Mummy was sorry that she missed it, but hopefully she can join us next year.

Look at all the yummy food they had prepared:



This is Aunty Tik, she is Ah Cik's girlfriend and she came all the way from Haadyai to celebrate with us.



Here are all Ah Gong's grandchildren, all 7 of us. I am the smallest, but not for long. I will soon have a baby cousin this August :)



I also took a picture with Ah Gong:



And here is the cake, which we all helped Ah Gong to blow out the candles.



Happy 60th Birthday Ah Gong!