I want my chilli!

HOME SWEET HOME!!! It feels SOOOO good to be home! My little Blossom was madly barking with joy when we saw her.
After one whole month of cheese, I finally get my chilli!! SHIOK!

On Sat we had a popiah and cold crab party at home, just of the 7 of us. Everyone worked all day to make the dinner. JF and I went to Tekka to buy the crabs, Mum n Dad bought the veggies n ingredients for the popiah, Muji chopped up and fried stuff, Wendy cleaned and helped kill the crabs with Dad, she also "tumboh" all the garlic the traditional way using a motar n pestle (JF called her "Age Stone woman" heheheh!) JF and I peeled and chopped veggies (you should've seen him, so cute painstakingly grating all that ginger with a tiny grater the size of a mobile phone...of course, he cut his fingers....poor thing!)
It was all worthwhile for the SUPER YUMMY dinner we had, and we overdosed on chilli and garlic! (Our burps were awful for the next 36 hours!!) Topped off with pears poached in red wine that JF made.

Then yesterday, we celebrated Mother's Day by visiting Mama's niche together, going to mass and dinner with Kong Kong. (We've been doing this every year since Mama passed away in 1992). For the dinner, I picked an Indian restaurant which was a nice change from the usual Chinese dinner we always have.

I was so happy being with my family, just sitting there soaking in the joy and loud chatter with my crazy cuzins Mel and Melanie (aka Sasha). I realised how funny they both are (LIKE SUPERFABULOUS FUNNY and they have SUPERFANTASTICKILLER SHOES like me, and we think Leonard is SUPERBOZOWEIRD cos he doesn't like chocolate. I mean, something wrong there lah!) and I really like hanging out with them...WE SHOULD DO IT MORE OFTEN GIRLS! Dinner was a mad frenzy of good food and laughs...... passing platters of curries, tandoori chicken, palak paneer, pulling on fluffy Kashmiri naans which everyone fell in love with. (Wendy declared that it was the first time she enjoyed Indian food, the Kashmiri naan did it for her. Mark was just happy that there was meat....hehehe! The first thing he asked when I said we were going to an Indian restaurant was, "Got meat or not?" Cos quite often we have Indian vegetarian and he doesn't like it ;p My brother is a meat and noodles boy! He loves anything doughy. When we were kids he used to eat 10 roti prata all by himself!) I KNOW YOU ARE PUKING AS U READ THIS WEE KEONG!

My cuzin Melanie (aka Sasha) was SO funny in her usual witty way. I swear that girl was a British comedian in a previous life! She has such dry wit and at the same time tells her Sasha-esque riddles that are so DUH they're funny! And she's only 16!!!!!



For example:
Imagine you are in an enclosed room with no doors or windows. The water level is rising fast and all you have is an umbrella and chair. How do you get out?

Answer: Akan datang...read my next post! hehehehe...c'mon crack ur brains u lot!

At the end of the dinner, the restaurant manager started handing out flowers to the Mums. (which was a really nice touch I thought, plus they re-made a new batch of naans for us cos some were a bit too chao dar...good service and excellent food. DELHI RESTAURANT in Race Course Road....GO THERE!) Anyways, all the crazy Ee Ees told him to give Wendy and I flowers too cos we're "Mums-to-Be"! ALAMAK! Not yet lah! Akan datang. I'm not pregnant yet PEOPLE!!! The cheese in France was just REALLY REALLY GOOD! ;p

We ended the night by striking funny poses and laughing so loudly that the ang mohs at the next table actually stopped drinking their beers, fell silent and stared at us! (You know you're REALLY making a noise when you're louder than a bunch of Pommies swigging their beers!)

Hamming it up with Kong Kong! He's such a sport ;)



The vainpot Lee Sisters and their Dad!



Also, I FINALLY got my wedding day photos from the photographer after SO LONG!!! Thank goodness for pix cos I think I missed half the stuff that was going on. I was in a daze all day, just floating by on my cotton candy cloud. Will put some here and the pix from Italy too :)

Right now I'm off to IKEA to buy a gazillion cardboard boxes to pack all my junk. I HAVE TO PACK MY WHOLE LIFE and ship it across the globe!! YIKES! The shoes alone will take forever!

BTW thanks to Wendy and MelSteph's feedback, I've changed the comments to "Allow anyone". I didn't know it was only restricted to Blogger users before! Sorreeeeee! ;p