Lunar New Year House Party

So, despite the Lunar New Year being over, I'm still very very much in the holiday mood.

Here's the superrrr late post of the party at my place on the second Saturday of CNY!

SQUISH.

Very few photos taken cause there was a lot of blackjack and talking going on.

I'm so glad the few diamonds stayed the night. Over chats & tons of Macs, we caught up and laughed a lot. CNY again please?

Lunar New Year Weekend

Day 1 of the lunar new year was pretty much fun filled and lots of foooood and laughter.

As usual, my family would take our 'greeting' photos for social media before my sister and I wish my parents happy new year officially. Mandarin exchanges and also our first ang paos!

'Happy New Year, Pull Your Ear!'

 Outfit for the first half of the day's visiting and we were off to the first stop, my uncle's house just a couple of blocks away!

It's always heartwarming to see my grandma so happily laughing!

After the Lees we headed to the Tans, my maternal side!

After the million greetings, we all started blackjack and lunch!

The goats of the chinese zodiac, my cousin, mum and aunt.

And I scored my first 萬萬 (or better known as 'ban ban') for the year! Wheee~ x3 payouts.

After being done with the maternal side's visitation, we headed home for a rest stop and my dear boy came to pick me to join him at his granduncle's place! Hehehe.

The superdog, Bibi. 

I can only say I enjoyed my first day a lot! It was perfect. The company, the ambience.

The second day of the lunar new year, I had my boy join my family for visitations before we headed back to his family! Tons of houses and meeting of relatives. Hehehe. But since I decided not to carry my camera about, there aren't pictures.

The third day of the lunar new year I headed to Johnathan's godma's place for great homecooked food and desserts! After which, I went to YP's for a steamboat dinner!

Outfit for the day. (Clothing with back details are my weakness.)

We were too bust with chit chatting, eating & also playing Guess The Word - SG that I didn't take any pictures of the steamboat. Hahahaha. Mama Leow's cooking is really superb.

Met some of YP's closest friends and they were definitely sweet girls.

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That concluded my Lunar New Year weekend. Boohoo cause school began again.

But despite the upcoming project due dates, I managed to squeeze in a shoot with my girls & also a weekend party at my place!

Those will come in new posts up ahead. :)

Diamonds X Fika

Finally after a loooongggg time, the Diamonds gathered! Whee~

All made possible by their spontaneous responses.

Fika was the location for our Christmas '13 gathering.

Cosy & with the perfect company.

Dinner was really good! Would love to head back there again soon.

And right after dinner, it was the moment Santarina YP & I were super excited about!

GIFT TIME!

This year, we decided to do away with the secret santa we did last year because everyone had busy schedules and we (YP & I) thought we'd prepare a little something for everyone else.

TADAH! NICE RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT?

Super proud of ourselves for it. *thick-skinned*

Saw the idea on Etsy & Pinterest.

With the help of my superman dad, we managed to customize stickers and pulled together the parts to make everyone a Mason jar mug! Apart from that, we added a Diamond die-cut sticker to remind one another that we'll always be together as the Diamonds. 💎

This group of people are really precious.

Despite the 3 years of Poly together, it was after the entire course that we bonded and grew closer.

Friendships like that can't be bought.

Johnathan's 21st

It was my dear Johnathan's 21st party slightly over a week ago!

I decided on a theme: Dress Like Johnathan. Hehehe!

(And since the birthday boy isn't very fond of photos, there weren't many taken that evening.)

Whisky-shaped fresh cream cake!

Since he's always known for his Esprit tee, a few of us got the Esprit tees to best suit the theme.

With the dear Diamonds.

And the darls dropped by later in the evening!