Our first year of celebrating Chinese New Year in London (and without Sophie) went remarkably well. For the reunion dinner, we had the whole gang - both YL's and mine - over for the now-famous YL steamboat dinner. Over fishballs, prawns, chicken, kangkung, and a soon-to-be classic episode of Top Gear, we bantered and exchanged news and laughed to usher in the New Year. A quick game of Train to Ride, and a boisterous game of guys-vs-gals' Cranium rounded up the evening. Oh yes, we also threw in a belated Christmas party with Christmas crackers and tunes, courtesy of a heavily discounted Christmas cracker set I found at Blackwell's a few weeks earlier. We finally called it a night at 2am. I don't think I've stayed up that late for a long, long time.
The winners!! YAAY!!
Losers...boooo! (but why do they still look so happy??)
The next day - the first day of the Lunar New Year - YL and I kept up with tradition and went visiting. All the way to Cardiff. I slept throughout the entire 3-hour train ride there, and the also on the return journey back to London (late nights do not agree with unfit mothers in their 30's). Alex & Sandra very kindly took us round the town center and Cardiff Bay, a new posh riverside development, and then treated us to lunch at a Chinese restaurant before shuttling us back to their cosy house in the suburbs. After a round of tea/coffee and cakes and (re)viewing Yoke Voon & Peter's wedding photos in Sibu, we said our goodbyes and started our journey back to London at 5:30pm.
Cardiff Bay with Alex & Sandra
All in all, a very tiring but rewarding weekend and New Year. Here's wishing my readers (whoever's left) a very properous New Year and joy throughout!
London's Chinatown during Chinese New Year 
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