2nd day of CNY

It was another late night as I was chatting with sis till dunno wat time. Today is the 2nd of of CNY and also my maternal grandma's birthday. It had been a tradition to celebrate this grandma's birthday with lunch, cake and red eggs, usually at my 8th uncle's house. However, by 11am we had thought its the same arrangement until some cousin called and said lunch will be at Fortute Ate Restaurant in Toa Payoh Central. It was a last minute decision coz 7th uncle thought 8th uncle will plan, but 8th uncle thought 7th uncle planning, then no time to cater for food. Wabiang these people really one kind, dunno what is telephone and communication, and they are brothers ok.

They had suggested some of us go down to the restaurant to wait for tables (and we need at least 4!) but I tried calling them 1st. They dun accept reservations and we anticipated it will be damn crowded so tried to dissuade them. Luckily 8th uncle finally became smart and decided to order fast food (like pizza and KFC) and had it at his house anyway. It was almost 12 by then so we skipped going to 2nd aunt's house 1st and waited for brother and Peggy to come over then off to 8th uncle's house.

As usual, we were the 1st to arrive (same every year no matter how dillay dally we were). We hanged around while waited for all to arrive b4 starting lunch. Most of the relatives here we only see once a year thus not close to them, even the cousins. Moreover most of them are parents already so we just mingled around our own family.

They had planned to visit 2nd aunt who is sort of sick at home coz she just had an operation some time ago due to cancer of her tongue and undergoing physiotheraphy now. It was getting late as I planned to leave by 3pm but my parents dilly dally until everyone left when we finally left by 4pm. Decided to skip 2nd aunt's house coz supposed to meet Web and visit a friend. End up too late so postponed the visit to tomorrow.

We then went to a temple at Balestier Road. It was almost quite disastrous for me coz my eyes were so pierced by the smoke from the incense, so much so that my tears kept flowing down and not able to get a tissue out. Finally finished praying then washed my hands to clear my poor eyes. I guess I never held so much incense at one go in my whole life thus dunno how to handle (direction of the wind to avoid smoke getting into my eyes). After that, we took a bus down to Orchard and had dinner at Cineleisure's Yoshinoya.

Most of the shopping centres were still closed thus we sat around at the closed food court in Cineleisure to play UNO until they switched off the lights. We then went to TCC at Peranakan Place for some drinks and snacks and more UNO b4 heading home.