We continue our CNY Photo Diaries with…

…my BIRTHDAY CAKE! Woo Hoo! Well, it was actually a pre-4th Birthday celebration…but I don’t really mind at all! By the way, it was a cake of my own choosing, OK….Papa insists he had no influence whatsoever on my decision…

Enjoy photos of my simple pre-birthday do in Ipoh!

I huffed and puffed and..

Trust me..it is NOT easy cutting a football cake!

WAH!!!!

Eyes on the ball...eyes on the ball...

Can't keep my eyes off the ball! (Papa has taught me well..)

Hannah: Sigh....boys....

Then we proceeded to open some presents…and look what Papa and Mama got for me!

A mini guitar!….NOT! According to Papa, this is not a toy guitar, but is actually a real musical instrument called the UKULELE. Whew, that was a mouthful.:-P Anyway, Papa says he will try to learn how to play this as soon as he can and then teach me…:-D

I’m so excited because this UKULELE seems to be able to draw lotsa attention wor!

Oooh...nice strings!

And of course there was more play time…like this new box of jigsaw puzzles…:-D

And that’s a wrap of my pre-4th birthday celebrations!

Shortly after, my cousins Ethan and Hannah followed their parents home. We also packed up and left Ipoh towards our next destination during this CNY period…

Where did we go? What did we do there?

Find out tomorrow!

Continuing our CNY Photo Diaries, we ushered in Day 1 of the Year of the Dragon in Ipoh with ang pows, lion dances, family photos, and more!. Enjoy!

The Chinese New became more fun in the afternoon when my cousins Ethan and Hannah came over with their Daddy and Mummy to play with us!

After dinner, we all took a stroll over to Kinta City, Ipoh where they had a special lion dance performance…

Unfortunately, the plan kinda backfired because when we arrived the crowd had already taken all the best positions to view the show. Some more the noise was too loud and deafening! Caitlynn went immediately into her “Scared, Scared” mode….while I just closed my ears shut!

When we came home, a surprise was waiting for us all! A chocolatey-goodness birthday cake was brought out to pre-celebrate Ethan Koko’s birthday!

The birthday boy!

Day 2 of CNY started off with more silly and happy family photos!

And how can I have a reunion with Ehtan Koko without a pillow fight?…

Oops…since this is a family-friendly blog, I have decided to censor out the violence of our pillow fight…:-P

So who won  in the end? Who cares?! We were both hungry already! Let’s EAT!

So what did we eat? What happened next?

Stay tuned for tomorrow when all shall be revealed!

Phew! It’s been exactly two weeks since Day 1 of Chinese New Year 2012 and both Caitlynn and I can still feel the fun, laughter, joys, etc. of everything that we did during that time. Oh yeah, we got pretty tired too at most nights..hee!

As usual, since it would be too long to blog every single detail of our CNY escapades, we will break up our CNY holiday wrap up in FIVE different parts – load them up with photos taken during this festive season.

Our Photo Diaries begins a day before the eve of CNY….

It was quite a journey from our home to Ah Ma/Ah Kong’s house in Ipoh. Funny, it didn’t feel this far before. Probably because we travelled in the afternoon this time. Papa decided to veer off the highway after seeing a stretch of cars not moving at all ahead shortly after the toll. Alas! The coastal road was just as bad as we crawled and crawled and crawled along up towards Ipoh.

I had also lost count of how many times or how many different kind of drains I had peed into during the journey. In a way, I was quite thankful we took the coastal/trunk road so Papa could very easily stop by the side of the road for such toilet emergencies..:-P

It was already evening and we had not even reached the trunk road yet. So Mama suggested that we stop over for dinner at this place called “Crossing Jungle” or Hutan Melintang. Surprisingly, they had quite a few seafood restaurants. Strange for a jungle to be popular with seafood, dontchu think?

Anyway, here’s where I stop babbling and post our photos taken from our dinner in Restoran Soon Kee..

By the time we reached Ipoh, it was already quite  late, but we’re happy to have arrived safely!

Fast forward a day later where Ah Ma and Ah Kong prepared some simple dishes for our nice little family reunion dinner – and I have to say all the food looked and tasted really yummy!

Check out my super appetite!

nom nom nom...

And that’s the end of Part 1! Stay tuned to see what happened during Day 1 of CNY tomorrow!