Mothers' Day

Though mothers' day was over for quite sometime. Suddenly have a feel to blog something on it. Well, it had been 5 years I din actually celebrate mothers' day with my mom besides phone call.. coz I was not around..

Previously, I celebrated mothers' days with coursemates and also some church friends. However, this year it was a bit too quiet coz my coursemates were all not around.. Thus,I celebrated mothers' day with Celine, my youngest sister, who came to visit me.. We went to have something nice in Causeway around Crown Plaza..

Early in the morning, we give a call to mom, wishing her to have a marvelous mothers' day. Not to forget also I bought a cake to be brought back for my mom as the mothers' day present.

Here a short letter for mummy,

Mummy,

I was a fragile kid brought to this earth,
A black sheep of the family,
being stubborn and naughty,
getting sick every now and then,
yet mom never give up...
Pain and strive accompanied me through,
I suffered and tend to give up..
yet you grab me back from the hand of the king of death.

All the best you pour on me,
all the way, encouragements never cease,
Of all the special joys in life,

The big ones, and the small,

Your love and tenderness,

Is the greatest of them all.

Though you are illiterate,
you make us the hope of the country,
though we are far away from you,
we'll never forget what you've remind us...

On this very day, mom, Happy Mothers' Day.

History of Valentine's Day

It is February the 14th, a day full of kindness and love. The air is fully saturated with love and care for their beloved one. I took a day off going around having a sense of the love season. Oh well, shops full of pinkish and reddish soft toys, candies, chocolates and wishing cards with all the poetic love outpour from the writer.

There are a lot of versions regarding Valentine’s Day history. Well I’m here to share whatever I know. Valentine’s Day is believed to be originated from Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, February the 14th was a holiday to honour Juno who was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses.

In that time, the lives of boys and girls were strictly estranged. However, one of the customs is the names of Roman girls were written on paper and placed in a jar. Each man would then draw a girl’s name from the jar and would then be partners for the duration of the Feast of Lupercalia. Sometimes the pairing lasted an entire year, and often, they would fall in love and marry.

However, under the ruling of Emperor Claudius II, Rome was famed in many bloody campaigns. Claudius King was having a hard time getting soldiers to participate in his military. He found out that the only reason for them not to join was that the young man did not want to leave their loves or families. Thus, He cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome forcing all the young man to join his military league.

St. Valentine was a priest at Rome in the days of Claudius II. He aided the Christina martyrs and secretly married couples. However, his noble deed was apprehended and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off. He died on the 14th of February 270A.D. In 496 A.D. Pope Gelasius set aside February 14 to honour St. Valentine for his noble deed of joining the loves one together.

Oh well, there might be a lot more other version of Valentine’s Day history. The meaning of the Valentine’s is just to remember your love one; your spouse, friends or even your family members. Showing your appreciation towards them.

Chinese New Year Eve

To my dearest sister Evelyn. As promised I posted up some of the photos captured during the Chinese New Year eve. Sorry for the delay.

This year like usual mom's cook all the dishes but reduce the portion coz you are not at home.. *haha.. Not going to say much just browse through the photos ba..

Char mee
Cow's tendon soup

Beef

Char kui tiaw

Mom's professional dish.. pai gu

Mixed vege

Mussels cooked with long cabbage

Kai Lan cook with prawns

Char Mee

Sweet sour fish

mixed vege

Specially design by Celine and she named it 'bing pang' wo.. I oso dunno why she giv such a name?

Part of the dishes. Got see your favourite dish there... Stew Pork with eggs..

haha.. saliva gushed out liaw ma..

any way, wishing you have a great Chinese New Year this year and also Chap Goh Meh.. Ermmm... I'm not going to post wat I ate during Chap Goh Meh... too plain.. pai seh to post..