CNY 2026

I’m getting more and more lazy each passing year. I think come 2027 I will only have one Happy New Year deco and order Grab food delivery or maybe should just fly out for a short vacation. 

Decorations

I didn’t want to stick anything on the wall incase I peel off the wall paint. This year's deco is minimal. The glass sticker set I bought for my balcony is too small.😂

Used to put table runner on the coffee table, now don’t coz hubby always flips the thing aside when he sits there for his meals.

Flowers

Last time I used to make an effort to buy ang ang flowers to put in balcony. This year I couldn’t be bothered. My plants always end up dying on me. However for the sake of having something auspicious, I bought the lucky bamboo at last minute. 

NY snacks

越买越少。本来都不要买 but since I was at Kim Choo once I just picked three items. Bought my every year must buy Julie’s love letters. That’s it! 4 snacks only. 

Mandarin oranges

We haven’t been buying the huge box of mandarin oranges for many years. Always a lot of wastage. So just these few we have at home, anyway after we exchange we get back our oranges🍊🍊 

In my mind from last year or was it previous previous year I’ve been telling myself to make carrot yam cake for CNY, to make agar agar using the fish mold, to make orh nee (I love orh nee!) maybe I should cook dish for reunion dinner or first day lunch. But as usual, I always like to daydream only 🤣

As for baking - I did want to bake peanut cookies, coffee cookies BUT ….. I always like to daydream only. 

Too much of daydreaming, too much of thinking that my brain makes me tired lazy tired 

Reunion dinner 

Didn't join bro and family for reunion dinner, hubby wants to have it by ourselves. We barely bought any ingredients. Just cabbage, mushrooms, crabsticks and fishballs. We have pork and chicken at home, scallops too. Another day hubby went to Sheng Siong and bought 7 prawns. Haha! We had to clear our fridge. 

Went to SH house to play cards the day before CNY eve so this year he didn’t return home late, or rather early at 4am

My own ‘decorations’

I’ve never had the practice of going to the hair salon for haircut and colour, nail salon for manicure pedicure. Cheapskate me will always do it on my own at home. But this year I didn’t even bother. I’m lucky at this time my white hair didn’t show much 

 Never colour hair, never paint nails, never buy any new clothes or red underwear (no wonder I’m so poor)

First day (17th)

I woke up late and prepared simple CNY stuffs for the family. 

 

Girls bai nian with us. 

Wanted to start cooking the peach gum dessert to bring over to bro's place. To my horror I realised that I mistook my hawthorn for red dates. Turns out I didn’t have anymore red dates at home. Hubby went out to help me buy, at the same time he said the snacks are quite filling so wasn’t hungry we swooped the idea of cooking simple lunch to just getting snacks. 

Cooked, cooled and then packed 

Went to bro’s place late, just nice for dinner, coz hubby needs to Zzzzz first. As usual, tossing yusheng. I wonder how many times we will toss yusheng this CNY. Once? Twice? Surely not as many times as most people but no love lost as we don't really fancy all these sweet things.    

Catered dinner

Then it's the end of Day 01 🐎

Second day (18th)

Over the years many eateries open on the second day with the changing dynamics of these youngsters and people my age range. We don't cook as much as our parents generations do. 

We headed out for lunch at Sushiro in Jewel. So many parking spaces.  

Che-che wanted to play Switch so we played with her. We were so noisy.

Dinner is us trying to finish that little ingredients we have left. Kept the dual steamboat pot in the bomb shelter and took out the single pot for this. Lots of commotion during this meal "open the door, we need to air the house." "cooked already?" "wait lah". It doesn't matter even if we're eating expensive food, cheap food can bond the family together. 

Sukiyaki 

 

That sums up our boring two days of CNY. Then it's work day the next day.