Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Chinese New Year 2013

We went to Hsinchu to celebrate New Year's last month. (Sorry it's taken so long to post.) We left home early morning, came home later that night. We lunched at a delicious restaurant there, ordered many dishes; and had a great time with my family.

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Yes, we were exhausted, having gotten up so early.
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Mom, ready as ever.
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A few hours later...
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Can I have some? (Dog was taking a time-out.)
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Us kids played cards.
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We headed off to lunch. My brother was well prepared.
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So was my mom.
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Forgot the name of the dish. It had all sorts of meat, corn, and something with mayonnaise.


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We kept asking a refill for our rice. According to my cousin, the waiter seemed very amused.
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Chinese Chicken Medicine Soup.
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Yam coated with sugar.
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Would've been two cousins, but the one on my left had to hide.
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Virtually all of our dishes.
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A bowl of tomatoes and guava.
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Five refills total. Oh, boy.
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After playing an intense card game, we decided to rest and stack them up.
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We were so concentrating on what we were doing. If we wanted to laugh, we had to choke it down.
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This was mine.
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We settled for some basketball later.
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Then we rested.
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Part of my Ah-gong's Chinese painting.
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At the HSR station, ready to go home.
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My mom and my brother.
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Us good o' siblings.
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We grabbed some dinner when we got back to the Taichung HSR station. Mine was fried pork chops with noodle soup.
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My brother's chicken with rice.
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My mom's vegetarian soup.
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4 comments:

  1. HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!! I can't believe it's been 2 years since 2011. It seems like just a few months ago. o.O

    I'm sorry about replying so late. I haven't been on Blogger for AGES. xD

    Wow :O You're grandpa's Chinese painting is so AWESOME.

    My final exams start tomorrow, and I'm so scared! xD I'm not sure if I'll be able to reply to comments and blog regularly, but I'm almost always bored, so I probably will.

    Damn, I've never been able to make a house of cards! That's just so AMAZING. I don't know if I've asked you before, but do you play soccer?

    Peace
    Nivedha

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  2. Taking lessons, lol. xD It's practically impossible teaching myself, because I haven't many books for them, YouTube tutorials are pretty worthless and I can't seem to find any good DVDs. Hmm, maybe I should get a few more books.

    Haha :D Thanks. :) Do you like Vespas?

    Scary, yes. I can't believe my blog hasn't been deleted by some Google Administrator yet. o.O xD

    Thank you! :D There are some awesome themes on shabbyblogs.com, you could check them out if you like.

    My science exam was today, and it was the trickiest question paper I've ever seen! None of the problems I'd practiced on the Mole Concept were asked as questions, and everything was so out-of-portion and vague. I have a good mind to kill all my teachers with a sledgehammer and go to jail for it.

    I've always loved soccer! :D I still play at school, but I got kicked out of my team (catch the pun? lol) in the playground thingie (it's not at school, and I dunno what to call it) because I'm a GIRL. -.-

    Yes, I'm Taurus. :D

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  3. We've found her! Well, it's still bad news, but it's something. I made another post about it.

    Wow, which one of your cats disappeared? And, um, I've probably asked you this before, but how many cats do you have? xD Lol, Sasha can open doors too, so we have to lock them up so she can't go out sometimes.

    Yup, the motorcycle. I think they're amazing. :D

    Exactly my thoughts! And this is the final exam! Do they have no thought about how the students will pass?!

    Lol no problem. I'm on my iPad right now, and Safari doesn't load background images, just colors. So I can't see your background right now - but I bet it looks awesome.

    I'd been playing in that team for two months, and I never picked goalkeeper because I didn't like to goalkeep. But on one of the matches, the put me in as goalkeeper and I didn't do well, and they said they had a better goalkeeper, who was a guy, and they booted me. xD I don't mind really, because I still play at school.

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  4. Wow. Your blog looks AWESOME. :O

    Oh, no, we didn't talk to the neighbors. Sasha came right back to us the next day. :D I should probably post about that, though I intervened with another post. xD

    Aw. Poor Caesar - I'm really glad he came back. Honestly, the thought of someone finding and keeping a cat that you've grown for quite a while is frightening and rather revolting. :(

    Oh, yes! Motorcycles are EVERYWHERE here. Though there are a lot more scooters here, merely because they're easier to handle and ride, and a lot less expensive. How about in Taiwan?

    Lol no, like I said, I still play at school, though it's not as fun or competitive. I also play badminton, but not as often as soccer. And I watch cricket. As a rule, I don't watch games that I play, and vice versa. xD What about you?

    Mmm, yeah, Google Translate is screwed. The "servez chaus" this is wrong. xD

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