It used to be a family affair when we were young, where my sisters and I would take the opportunity to bribe our parents to buy junkies from the mall for a little celebration in front of the TV in our living room (no typical celebration in my small town).
Then, when I went overseas, things started to change when my host-family made a huge fuss and celebrated the New Year in a very different/cultural way.
If I don't remember telling you this, my Spanish encounter back in the year 2000 during New Year's was that each of us had 7 little grapes in a small tea cup. In the last 7 seconds of the year coming to an end, we were suppose to eat 1 grape for each second. After the last grape, we were suppose to jump forward in action to signify going into the new year.
It was a very fun affair when people like me with a grape too big for the mouth and munch like a turtle, it was kind of a struggle when you would end up having all 7 grapes in your mouth and having to jump at the same time when you realise the time does fly that fast!
Years in college and universities and even in the early twenties, celebrations were done in the partying mode. We would want to go somewhere and have a huge party. Dinners from the scale of typical mamak stalls (students not much splurging power yet) to drinking at the club.
This year, going into the mid-twenties of my lifetime, my good friends and I find ourselves having a cozy dinner at a lifestyle cafe to fit our photo-taking abilities as well as our taste buds.
Yep, our friend JC made reservations for us at Fullhouse @ Ara Damansara - the near dead town in this busy city. So weird.
The cafe, ironically to its name, it's always full house. Probably due to the nice food and beautiful decorations in the cafe, which entitles them to the concept of a Lifestyle Cafe.
The Cod with mashed potatoes was my main course that night. :)
After catching up over dinner about the do's and don'ts for Siao Yu's wedding on the 2nd of January (tomorrow!), we went around the cafe, very much to Liew's despair as he had to sit alone at the table watching some of our bags. *thank you*
Then, MayJune took out her work of art, a present for Siao Yu, which she spent 2 nights assembling. I thought it is so very cute and beautiful!
Don't you call that the most precise and beautiful thing one could ever laid eyes on? Made from scratch OK! *salute*
As we do not prefer the cramp places with the New Year's eve crowd, a few of us spent the rest of the night welcoming the New Year on Sharon's balcony. We thought it was one of the best places to just stand and admire the beauty of light from many different places!
Yes, we could see fireworks from The Curve, One Utama, Mont Kiara and the little ones in KL. Isn't that great!
We enjoyed the rest of the night drinking beer in Sharon's living room while poker cards were slammed on the coffee table. Haha!
Our family said good bye to Tabeah at the airport last night. It was a mixture of both feelings to the extreme. A very complicated one for us and also for Tabeah.
This morning, Mei and I said good bye to our parents, Lee Ling and Lee Mei's host-parents (first and second from left in the picture above) who were visiting Malaysia for a week. Very nice people.
So, as we enjoyed beer, gossiping, poker cards and silly movies, we welcomed the new year with a lot of anticipation for the exciting careers both Beanie and I are going to embark on. We celebrate the mid-twenties like how we eagerly wanted to become twenty. A lot of other beautiful stories to celebrate. Love, passion, work, health and ... basically life.
Here's a Happy New Year 2010 from Beanie and me!
:)
XOXO,
theRascal
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