It's been a good week worth of break. On Monday it was Day One of the New Year so as usual my family played host.
It was a mad rush in the morning. Woke up at 7am to start cooking every single damn thing we could find. Drinks, food, tidbits and last minute cleaning up.
I was in charge of the fried beehoon. Even when the guests started arriving at 10am, I was still in my nightclothes smelling of fried shallot and oil. Neat.
My extended family meets up often, every Saturday in fact. So it's great that we don't feel awkward when we see each other. Loads of fun, talking and catching with cousins we don't meet regularly.
After a long morning it was family picture time!
Introducing Kim, my cousin's wife and their beautiful little daughter. Her name is Hailey and she's only two-three months old. She's not camera shy at all and sleeps like a log.
Yijie, my 8th or 9th nephew. Lost count there. Easily bribed with food and tricked into taking pictures. Like this one LOL.
Our new generation of kids! Three didn't come on that day so it's a real pity. This generation of kids keep growing so I wonder how many nephews and nieces will I have even before I get married some day.
My grandmother (who was in a pretty bad mood that day for some reason), with her children and their spouses.
My other group of cousins. My generation has grand total of 20 of us but it's split into two factions. This is the older one. Haha, most of them are working, married but we remain close.
This is my faction! One cousin couldn't make it. She was down with chicken pox just before New Year which was really unlucky.
The bloke wearing the checkered shirt is not a cousin but my sister's fiancee Ken. They are getting married this November, just after my ORD. Great timing!
Candid photo of us! Notice that the guy sitting down hasn't changed his expression at all. Haha.
My family photo. Mom and Dad surrounded by us. For the first time there are three fellas because Ken joined us this year. I really appreciated the gesture.
I loved this photo because it was totally candid. Someone said something and my mom cracked a joke about it so we all laughed.
BUT WHY MY MOUTH OPEN UNTIL LIKE THAT!
The only Liow male members! Took us damn long to take this picture because everyone took turns not to smile during this shoot.
Me and my oldest nephew. He was looking damn pissed because he wanted to go home but his parents stayed behind for a while longer.
Later we went to a temple to pay my respects to my late maternal grandparents and we met up with my aunt and her family.
My dad now has the same facial expression as my nephew just now LOL.
There are many other photos taken with many other cameras so I don't have the whole list but this will do.
Hope that everyone had a fun time and many hongbaos!
As usual, my holiday mood came down with a crash when I had to go back camp on Wednesday.
A few things happened here and there, and before I knew it, I was on a full out bad mood by midday.
Worst news was that, next month I'll be on SOL for 14 days, as well as having 7 duties to do. 21 days not going home. Crap.
So everyone, prepare not to see me at all in February. Sigh.
On the other hand I had pretty fun work to do.
I was on this EIS duty. My job is basically to fetch an overseas pilot from his hotel, which could be anywhere, to Changi Air Base for training.
This time my pilot stayed at Beach Hotel, just opposite Bugis Parco. Once again, I went back there even though just last post I complained I went there a bit too often.
However, it was the first time I went there in uniform. My buddy and I attracted loads of stares when we bought Mos Burger and went to the toilet.
I was thinking, "Wah wear uniform cannot eat or pee meh?"
I saw my pilot, who is a Malaysian. He had an uncanny resemblance to a certain fugitive which escaped last year. LOL. I only realised it when I sent him home just now.
But he's really nice too. We chatted quite a bit, and when I dropped him at Changi Airport Terminal Two for his flight home, he surprised me as he took out his phone, fiddled with it and passed it to my friend.
"Hey man, help me take photo with the driver can?"
WOAH. I was honoured because a pilot is usually quite a high ranking officer. Don't think I'll ever get to see that picture though. Haha. I saluted him and said goodbye.
Two days of hardwork earned a shitload of mileage. Thank God tomorrow is Friday, Gotta have a break soon again.
I have a surprising thing to announce finally.
I'm about to do something unexpected this Sunday. Some of you might see it coming but I was adamant about it for really long.
Watch this space!
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