This year, I have two lovely princess with me to celebrate the Chinese New Year 2011. Just like last year, Four of us in the Family together with the maid packed up on the CNY eve to have a sleepover at BIL's place @ KD.
CNY SLEEP OVER
Chloe and my maid slept in the study room next to our room, while Papa, Mama & Baby Clarisse slept in the master bedroom. The moment, we arrived KD home, Chloe spotted the playground equipped with slides, swings & seesaw. We arrived there at about 7pm, since it is not dark yet, so Papa & Mama brought Chloe to the playground for a while. She had so much fun that she actually remember the playground until today and keep on asking Mama to bring her to playground for slides again. She even remembered the song that I sing to her while she was playing seesaw. :)
We stayed there for two nights and then we are back to Titiwangsa home.
CNY DONATION
This year, Papa & Mama had made a donation of a sum of RYQQ.JJ to Amitabha Old Folks Home @ Happy Garden & House of Angels @ OUG. Our plan was to bring Chloe and Clarisse to make donation but it did not go as planned because they were too tired for the past three days. Furthermore, Papa & Mama had too many groceries to move out from the car, imagine a CRV filled up with all groceries, there is no way that we can take another passenger. Anyway, I will bring them next year when they are older.
The donation was split into few parts :-
1. Gift Pack
2. Groceries
3. Ang Pows
4. Cash Donation
However, we realized that it is most logical and straightforward to give out cash as they will know how to spend on their needs instead of buying biscuits, milos, coffee, instant noodles which I saw all piled up at Amitabha Centre. Apparently, they are a lot of generous people around giving out biscuits, peanuts, milos, milks etc etc which the person in charge to us that many old folks are not able to chew, many of them are on soft diet. So, it became useless to Amitabha Centre. However, he said they will not waste all these food. They will transfer to other centre like the orphanages & others which needs all these food. Sometimes, it is very contradicting to do such donation. Buy groceries, but it might be suitable to them. Give out Cash Donation, there is always a doubt whether these cash is utilized properly to support the needy people or not. But then, my intention and duty delivered.
To be honest, before I decide on the above two centres, I googled and read some blogs about it. Many of the centres are all supported by politicians, and most of them in KL / Selangor are quite well equipped and supported. I feel the same too, because I saw a BIG LCD TV at Angel House, and these kids are watching "live to dance" while we are visiting them. But they are brilliant kids, I saw all those medals displayed in the cabinet. I really hope the continuous support by the community will bring them further to excel their life to support themselves and repay back to the society one day.
CNY FOOD
Maybe Andrew is not around, so mum did not stock up much of the CNY goodies. We are not really junk lovers like my brother, further to that we are very very very very WEIGHT CONSCIOUS. However, I still cannot resist the deep fried sesame seaweed munchie. It is so delicious. It is so sinful to finish the whole container myself in one night. Eeeewwww...it is so irresistible. Weight control comes later, goodies come FIRST. Yum Yum.
As usual, CNY food outside is always bad. The best dinner I had is the LAP MEI FAN. Simple and Nice. Yummy!
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