Bummerina: Year of the horse

With the lunar new year celebrations,

What have you been up to?

My last few days of the snake year ended up mostly with the packing up of the house and room.

Trixie (as usual) was nosing around and I decided to dress her up with little bits of treasures that I dug up while packing.

Meet Lady Trixie!

Long hair, Victorian pearl necklace and all!
She looks odd. Too much hair or something.

I couldn't wait to wear my stash of new clothes, and working very hard to resist wearing them earlier.

I figured that since the eve of the New year, is somewhat new yearish already......
I took out my panda tee that I bought from my recent trip at the River Safari.

It's a kids sized tee, Just because the designs of the adult tee looks yucky.

(and that I'm still capable of squeezing in to a 10-12 year old's garment, while I still can!)

Wore panda tee out on the for some last minute shopping run in town, then it was our annual family dinner that I look forward to.
Goodies, fresh seafood, and other yummies.
It's not that I dont get to eat them other days of the year, but the daddy rarely sits through dinner, and its really a time when the entire family sits together to have a proper meal.
Right, I'll feel sad if its the entire family and we're eating boring food actually.
So all requirements have to meet before the meal can be considered a good one.
:)

I started my new year pretty well.

For starters, I finished my face goob and had to open up new bottles on the first day of the horse year!
I had the hardest time finishing that 125ml of Biotherm that I bought at the airport.
How can you resist traveller's pricing? $80 for $125ml.
I couldn't.

Cheapo Aunty instincts showing up.
My mom trained me well.
Haha.

A 50ml moisturiser usually takes me approximately 6 months to finish...
125ml is a test of my tenacity to finish up my products. I got quite bored. and tried to use it up everywhere, and use more!
So it was definitely a Yay! When I could start back on my Lancome again.

And the eyeliner as well.

I was lining my eyes and it was out of ink!

I had grey lines instead of black.

Haha
I'm a control freak/hoarder. I rarely run out of essentials if things were done my way.
I never like to be in situations where I do not have a choice.
Therefore, Im not a light traveller. Everything also must bring!

The fams heading out for our first round of visiting!

My little furry lady bug for the day. I bought her this outfit when I went to Hongkong.
Cute eh!

Trixie terrorising people in the house.

Oh she enjoys terrorising people, especially if there's food!

I think she was sniffing after my dad.

The well behaved dogs, compared to my little terror. My uncle's dogs would hide under the dining table to hide away from Trixie.

They're kinda afraid of her actually or something I'm not sure..

So the boys sought the protection of their owner (my uncle)!

My little furry bug in her outfit, taken at home!
That's my mom's fruit auspicious basket. There's pomelo. Mandarin oranges, pineapples and my favourite rice cakes.

The decoration was left entirely up to me, and I stuck sticker all over her fruits and pineapple leaves. Leave nothing undecorated!

Surprisingly, the naughty little girl didnt do anything to that basket of fruits. (yet!)

We ended our visits really early this year, as the brother needed to report back to camp every night.

Poor thing. My aunt packed a few jars of new year goodies for him to bring back to camp to savour.

But it was good for me in a way.

I was exhausted! Meeting my bed early was a glorious reward!
I'm like an iphone. I need to recharge very frequently if I have too many things going on with.
Being in crowded places exhaust me rather easily.
I'm not sure why either.

I took a screenshot of the video that my cousin took for me when we were at our grand aunt's place.

I like this moment best because it captured the special bond between Trixie and I.

See our mutual joy?

It's like her looking up at me telling me : Human, did you see what I did there?

Did you? Did you? Are you happy now?

and when I affirmed and praised her back...

It was our magical moment where we were both happy glad.

You can see it!

It's her third cny with my family, and I'm super glad and grateful that Trixie was sent my way like magic.

Day two.

Everyone was uber lazy. We woke up late and left home in the evening for 2 house visits only.
Look of the day..

In the car on our way to visit my nanny.

At her place, I spotted my old old piano toy that used to be mine over at her place.

It's like a happy joy to know that she still keeps it in her house, and I loved it so much when I was younger.
Actually I had 2 of them.
One with her, and one with me.
My mom chucked the one I had at home years back....

so its nostalgic to me.

She says she'll give it to me when married.

Gosh. It's gonna be a long wait for her.
Haha

Headed over to my uncle's for dinner and I went home to rest my full tummy after dinner.

Nothing beats collapsing in bed after a satisfying meal.
#foodcoma

Third day, I visited the River Hong bao, and by the time I made it there, the lights were off.

Gah!

So we went off to catch a movie instead!

We watched Robocop.

It's not bad really, only that I hurt my foot while getting myself a drink at the convenience store!
I notice that on the years that I get freaky little bleeding accidents like this, it usually turns out to be a good year.
It's like a blood sacrificial to pay my way into a good year or something.
*recalls the freaky bleeding eyebrows incident in 2011*

It's a really deep scratch that the refrigerator door made on my heel.

3 hours later, it was still bleeding.

I walked funny after, as I couldnt stretch the wrinkly bits that dried up eventually.

Going down the stairs was a little challenging.

I had to do a little springy hop down the stairs like a kid so that the heels didnt need to be stretched.

It's been a week, and the scab is still stuck on my feet.

It's starting to itch alot, and I tried prying it away to stop the itching.

Turns out, that my heel isnt quite ready yet, and now i've got myself a new and thinner scab covering that poor spot.

That's about all, and here's some other random pictures to share.

During my bout of spring cleaning and reorganizing my accessory wardrobe, I found my vintage Hermes hook necklace.

Been wearing it quite a lot lately.

Some of my red packets that I received!
When you plonk all the red packets together, they look kinda pretty.

My favourite red packet designs...

On the fifth day of the Chinese new year, I also attended baby mikaela's baby shower!

Though I was much attracted to Chocolate the dog and mostly forgot that I was there for a baby shower, instead of a dog party.

She's got to be the cutest shi tzu mix Maltese mix dunno what that I've ever met.

I'm usually not a fan of shitzus but this one's really really adorable and pretty!

She hates to be touched by strangers.

OCD much?

But to be fair, her fur coat is sparkly white and extremely well brushed.
Trixie in comparison is very black and she hates to be brushed. So she looks like one of those wild dogs that emerged out from the forest.
I always joked that Trix looks like an abandoned dog that's never been showered or brushed.
It is especially so, whenever I take long trips away from Singapore.
No one at home actually thinks that its important for their pet dog to look like their pet is ever ready to gloss the covers of a pet magazine.
Sigh.

I digress too much... back to Chocolate..
I snuck a shot of Chocolate while Claud pretended to offer a piece of food to Chocolate to get a shot.

Sleeping beauty!

This is my sleeping furry, and she's very good at being comfortable.

She props her feet up whenever she sleeps!

and whenever the opportunity presents itself, she makes herself comfortable, with my stash of clothes as her mattress.

Tsk!

My dress one of those night out to party..
You dont want to know how scandalous the front looks like..

Buying new shoes...

Need to remember how the shoes looked on me, to help me decide better!
I needed a pair of black shoes to replace my Aldo ones that is dyingfrom too many trips to China.

I wasn't sure sure about this pair...
and the quickest way to decide was to leave it to chance!
I walked away from the last pair of size 37 in the store and went home.

If it's there the next day, I'd get it, and if it isn't then, viola! Decision made!
I hate to be pressured into buying anything.
#ChillPillDaphne