within the heart: Chinese New Year EVE

Reporting from Singapore.

Chinese New Year eve for 2009 was a Sunday so we started the day by attending church. Dad was invited to preach in Eternal Life Church, Singapore. The service was good.

Dad, preaching.

From left: brother, ME, sister, mom, dad, uncle.

We had lunch with one of the church members.
After that my sister and I were suppose to follow Sarah and Deborah [my cousins] to their youth service but we were so tired we didn't make it.
Instead, I lazed around and was finally able to read through False Impressions by Jeffrey Archer as well as blog and so on.
Sarah returned, wanting to stab a knife into my stomach and pull the weapon all the way up to my throat and then serve me as stew for the reunion dinner. Okay, that was extremely exaggerated.
But she was very upset we didn't go.

Anyway, I then finally got the chance to meet...
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MY SECOND COUSIN, FAITH ELIZABETH LOH.

Isn't she so tremendously cute?

Okay, moving on to the reunion dinner.
We had the reunion dinner at Grandma Margaret's place.
And oh, it was Grandma Margaret's birthday too.
[which reminds me, it was Jia Yao's birthday too]
so HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BOTH. =)

From left: Aunty Julia, Uncle Andrew, brother and Judith [my cousin]

*sings* Food, glorious food~

Ah, a picture of me stuffing myself which is not a surprise, I'm sure.

I spent a lot of time eating and taking pictures.

As you can see.

Bonding time with cousins.

Japhia, ME, Sarah and Deborah.

While eating, my cousins started clicking away with their cameras.
Knowing how very not photogenic I am, I had to hide my face or they might use ugly pictures to blackmail me one day.

This was my solution.

After too manymanymany shots, I gave in.

Sarah likes playing colour accent with the camera.
This is how it works: you pick a colour and the camera detects most hints of that colour and voila!
As you can see, Sarah chose green.