Our CNY preparations

It's a busy period for us few weeks before the Lunar New Year. As usual, we've done up a checklist & were glad that all errands were ticked off according to schedule.

Overall this year's chores were lighter than last year's. At least we didn't have to clear our big store room & paint the planter's boxes. But the last week before CNY was filled with errands. Mum made kueh lapis for my MIL, so we had to find a night to deliver (decree from mum to have it delivered 'fresh from the oven'.. what to do??). And another night, helped buy a few cartons of drinks for parents inlaw. One night (Thurs) was entirely spent on my nails. I reached FEP as early as I could at 6pm but I was only done around 9.30pm.

Another night, we went to Chinatown just to get a cat for me. I saw this very adorable 'zhao cai mao' during a lunch-time trip to Chinatown's bazaar with colleagues. I didn't buy it then but regretted...

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Miao...

The weekend before CNY, Saturday, we spent the whole afternoon around Bugis... collected our altered clothes and bought the goodies, both from Rochor, some shopping as well as getting a cake for FIL's birthday. In the evening, we went for the reunion + birthday dinner at Choon Seng Punggol Restaurant. Was a happy 9-course reunion dinner with a total of 5 tables... CNY mood was already in the air then:)

Just to Queensway Shopping Centre alone, we'd made quite a few trips, almost once every 2 days. Besides going to our regular seamstress in Rochor for alteration, we're trying out one located in Queensway Shopping Centre. And hubby found a boutique that sells nice pieces for guys. Not cheap though and the lady boss claimed that quite a few Mediacorp artistes were their regular customers. But more importantly for us, the shirts & pants suit hubby very well. With no prior intention, hubby bought a suit together and a shirt. The suit, uniquely in grey with a tinge of silver, was quite a good deal. More for the shirt... we saw a similar piece in Seoul last year & it's priced at slightly more than a hundred, after conversion. And the one that hubby bought was just about 60% of it. So the collection of his altered pieces & re-alteration from the boutique contributed to 2 of the trips to Queensway.

Every year, there're lots of washing/cleaning up, numerous errands to run & seemingly endless items to buy which could get a lil overwhelming at times.. just for a week of celebration, or 2. But it's all worth it as we simply like CNY:P