For the past few years, our family tradition during the very first day of CNY had always been going for hill-hiking together. My dad would say:" This year we should climb higher than where we reached last year!才算是步步高升！"
LOL~
2013 is a totally different year for my family as we've found the dhamma. According to Buddha's teaching, the only way that we can improve our life is through gaining good merits by cultivating Dana, Sila & Bhavana. So, on the very first day of CNY 2013, my whole family went to offer dana at Dhammapiti Monastery. We were kinda worried that the monks won't have enough food to eat that day because we thought that everybody will be busy celebrating CNY and won't have time to do dana.
Turned out, SURPRISE!!!
The monastery was full of kind-hearted people who are selfless and willing to sacrifice some of their time to do dana. So happy to see that:)))
And below are the dishes specially prepared by daddy & i...Ps, i cooked the garlic butter prawns with broccoli, it was so aromatic and nice^^
Most of the CNY holiday was spent at my Grandma's ancient house at Temoh. I still enjoy the atmosphere where most of the relatives will be back and we will have a HUGE family "discussion" around the dining table. Uncles and aunts will reminiscent their childhood stories, and everybody would laugh at the silly jokes at those old days. The children will enjoy playing cards, running around making noises while the adult will play the mahjong. But somehow, as years go by, children has grown up and the whole atmosphere just became not as CNY-ish as before anymore. Just for a change, this year my younger bro suggested to trot around the village of Temoh and took some nice pics.
Of course, the most enjoyble thing is just simply hanging aorund with my beloved daddy mummy bro and sis! Its really funny when i thought of how badly we fought with each other among siblings when 3 of us were still children. And now we have all grown up and become young adults. No more fighting! Surely mom & dad feel glad because of this, no more headache for them!LOL
We had a great dinner and went to Ipoh Kinta Riverfront to have a relaxing stroll, hoping to burn some of the heavy calories eaten. That was actually on Valentine's day, and my dad did the sweetest thing-sending my mom valentine's roses! Look at this sweet couple^^
And there was my beloved mom's birthday too! I baked mini oreo cheesecakes for her. Nothing beats my love towards my family:) Ohya, besides i also managed to bake a choco-banana bread which was so soft and fragrant! Yum!^^ Thought of baking peanut cookies and oatmeal cookies but i just couldn't spare out any free time to do so. Will reserve that during my next hols!
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