Happy Birthday, Everyone!

Today is a yearly event worthy of mention. Unlike the Ang Mohs, we Chinese are actually very lucky because we get to celebrate 3 birthdays a year.. although how many people actually do so is another question altogether.

Why do we have 3 birthdays? Here is the the break-down.

Birthday No. 1 = Gregorian Birthdate

Birthday No. 2 = Chinese Lunar Birthday that occurs on the day of the Gregorian birthday based on the Chinese Lunar Calendar

Birthday No. 3 = Everyone's birthday! 7th Day of the Chinese New Year a.k.a. Humans' Day

So in celebration of everyone's birthday, the immigrant citizens of Sugarland have come together at the hallowed Hall of the Lions a.k.a. The Residence of Singaporeans and Assimilated Foreigners for the annual Lo-Hei.

Unfortunately, it seems that radishes don't grow in Sugarland so we had to replace with pears and apples. Note to self: Shred the apples and pears very very very last minute-ly so that they don't change flavour... Carrots and Cucumbers were readily available so no problem there other than the one that begins also with 'C' - Cost!

We also got a new friend who joined us for dinner today from Canada! Overall, dinner was good... I mean, of course it was good, considering the free-flowing Teh Tarik, Bandung, Iced Pu-Er Tea and Alcohol. No no, it wasn't a liquid dinner... we may be a tad broke but we are not THAT broke as to simply be drinking fluids, much as wine here is relatively inexpensive.

So as you can see in the attached picture, today we had a pretty good spread inclusive of a steamboat buffet, Taiwanese Crispy Salty Chicken, Singaporean Dessert Almond Jelly (except that we couldn't find longans, so we had to replace with fruit cocktail since the canned rambutans and canned lycees cost a bomb), Fried Bee Hoon and of course our improvised Yu-Sheng. Not bad lah, here got cheap smoked salmon..

Admittedly, the camera failed to capture all the good stuff and you can only see about maybe half the quantity and quality of the spread that we had. Oh yes, and I almost forgot.. What's CNY without Bak Kua and Pineapple Tarts? Of course we had those lying around too!

Cheers to everyone today in celebration of Humans' Day! Ain't it great to be Chinese?