Happy Chinese New Year!

First, a family photo to wish everyone a happy year of the Metal Tiger!

We returned to KL for a week to spend it with family. Yiyi (aunt, or mother's sister - in Cantonese) and Yi Cheong (uncle, or mother's sister's husband, in Cantonese ... yes the Chinese have honorific titles for every member of the family) is back from Australia after being away for a year. Sophie was elated to have another playmate to indulge in her. Ju was happy to have another object to salivate (literally) after.

YL and I stuffed ourselves with all the good food whipped up by Nai Nai - big fish, big meat, as the Cantonese put it - and had to postpone our weight loss plan for another week. He said he is positively rounder after that week. I have given up on caring how I look with that post-baby pouch and just learned to live with it.

Annual Dinner

Sophie singing "Lang Hua Yi Duo Duo" on stage with the band.
Sophie fighting off boredom while waiting for the band to perform her song.

Pretty ladies

Yeh Yeh's company held its annual dinner last weekend, and we happened to be home at night. It is a admirable feat to grow the company to what it is today, 32 years later.

Sophie was fascinated by the band, and her eyes lit up when we explained to her that it is possible to request for them to sing her favourite Mandarin song, Lang Hua Yi Duo Duo. So Small Gugu dutifully wrote the request for her in Chinese, and she strode excitedly to the performers to hand them the slip of paper. During the next 30-40 minutes, she waited impatiently for her song and asked every time a song ended, "Is my song next??". When the band finally played it, they asked her if she would like to go up on stage to sing it with them, and she immediately agreed.

We had no idea she is such a performer...