Koh Tong - Winter Solstice Festival (The Celebration of Spring)

It was Koh Tong, or known as Winter Solstice Festival. on saturday. Most households would have tong yuen and pak cham kai as food offering for altar of the household deities. It was celebrated in a simple manners.

Tong yuen with gula melaka
in-the-makingky mum's preparing pak cham kai and sang choy for the sembahyang.

After that we make our journey to segamat to visit my parents.

Gunung Ledang, johor - the place where the mystical bunian princess lives

Going back home has a very nice feeling ...

my father bought this for us - the famous segamat durian

on sunday, we met up with my cousin - yoke fong, for yumcha session. segamat town, only moderate in size, offers suprisingly number of cafes with good food and drinks at affordable prices.

nanyang white kopi - only costs rm1.70
kopi peng and wholemeal bread with kaya and butter. we would never miss them each time we come back to segamat.

As monday both of us have to work, we have to travel back on sunday evening itself. mum cooked an early dinner and insisted we ate before we left. the traffic jam started at 6.44pm immediately after we passed air keroh, melaka.
it started to rain at 7.14pm, the crawl continue ....

started to feel a little desperate for a toilet stop ......

.... the never ending line of cars heading to seremban and kl

..... 7.46pm ..... getting very desperate ..... we have not reached seremban yet.

ohmigod .... we didn't realize we are running on a near empty gas tank!

finally we found a petrol station after driving for more than 20km.

god has mercy on us ... we finally reached home around 9pm. it has been a long and tiring weekend.

Planning for A Chinese Wedding

For those who have gone through it they knew how messy and busy the whole affair can be. For those who has not gone through this yet, you will know how it feels when your time come. i don't need to explain.

king yeung and I had a lot of things in our minds. Mostly about money and how to get which things done first, one at a time.

Here are the things we have done so far:
1) the first hurdle - talk to our parents about it. they are perfectly happy with our choices of life's partner.
2) open a join account together and faithfully put in money into it every month.
3) asking around for tips from married friends.
4) bought a file - it is time to do some serious research and planning.

shopping for the wedding rings will come soon after we received our bonuses.

honestly, there are so much of things to do and we do not know where to begin. friends who dropped by to read our blog are welcome to give some advices.