Great Grandma's 100th Birthday ! (part 2)- the preparation for fiesta

The Preparation for Fiesta!

Well, everyone has their part on preparation. No one is easy, no one is empty handed, and no one is FREE.!

Grandma busy for tasting the food

Mom busying for playing around

Grandpa is busying refilling oil for the altar

The aunties (grandma's friend) are busying continueing thier business , and the three generation ( my grand aunt, aunt and cousin) busying having their light food.

As for the cousins, they are definitely happy with the outcome of the conferrence just now, thus they are united ^^. 2 from KL, one from Kedah, one from Terengganu, and one from Johor.

The fiesta is simple but complex, soft but hard,cold but hot, small but big. what is it? SteamBoat!!! simple in cooking but complex in variety, soft in before cook and hard after, its cold but must eat hot, small in scale but stuffed until stomach grow bigger then ever.

We like steamboat, coz we can choose whatever we like ^^

Take note that we have two steamboat. the one in the far end is non- vegetarian, and then one in other side is vegetarian. In my mom's side family member, vegetarians are majority ^^. my grandma have 6 daugthers and a son.

1st aunt -vege

2nd aunt(my god mom) -vege

3rd aunt - half-vege (occasionally)

4th aunt - non-vege

5th (my mom) - vege

6th aunt - non-vege but does not consume sea food

uncle - purest vegetarian

the 4th generation-

ME!!!!- vege

so , approximately 7 vegetarian ^^. our food never lost to the non-vege. We have chicken, lamb, fish, beef, all sorts of thing they have . in fact, ours taste better .

Night is approaching, the celebration is near. wait for the next episode ya!!

TO BE CONTINUE...................................

Great Grandma's 100th Birthday! (part 1)

Greetings
This blog is dedicated for my relatives, which couldnt attend our greatgradma (greatgreatgrandma, grandma, mom, sister)'s 100 years old birthday.


First of all, congratulation to Greatgrandma, Chan Xiong Lan for surviving for a decade. Born in 1908, she was bought up in a middle class family near to the city of Da Pu, Canton. Greatgrandma was a Xiu Je ( Lady ) where upon marriage, she have a personnel maid following her whereever she goes, even to Malaysia with her late husband, (my great grandfather) in the 30ies.


She was a devote Taoist . As you can see , the entrance of our kampung (well, not anymore) in Kuala Kangsar is almost fully occupied by the taoist altar of Zhen Kong Zhu Shi


Now i briefly talk abut the altar, its something not alien for my family who always pray upon visit. There a table and a smaller one infront. The smaller table in front was covered by a red cloth with picture or the 8 god (ba xian)

Then, there's an copper urn on it, with a mu yu on the right and another urn on the left(hitting the urn symbolises the beging of a prayer. the tempo is 3 crochet and 2 quaver. So its, Ding ~ Ding~ Ding~ Ding!Ding!).

On the table itself there are 3 bigger urns for 3 goddes (san xian nu) then theres a mirror behind with chinese idioms on both sides and above. This altar was well preserve by greatgrandma and she is passing it to my grandfather ^^


PREPARATION!

Lets make a Visit to the Imperial kitchen

-The Imperial maids washing the dishes (florida( my godma (mom's sis)'s friend from Sabah and Sam (My uncle (mom's brother)'s maid)

-The Imperial chef's assistant (my mom )cutting the food, with the king's personal Enouch (my Godma) inspecting the food. hehe

WAITING FOR THE FEAST TO BEGIN

Well, it isnt that hard to wait for food in Kuala Kangsar's house coz there's lots of thing to do , which can kill your free time.

THE COUSINS
The cousins spent their good time in their conference. Conference regarding how to kill effectively....................................................in their PSP game ^^

THE GRANDS

The grands, be it grand aunt, grandpa, grandma, having their good time charring around about thier grandchildren

"where's your grandkid studying?"

"erm.... dunno where in Subang la"

"my grandkid there also, in Mo~~mo~~nas (monash) ,yours?"

"dunno what ,got cooking, hotel, de la"

"Oh..... it must be taylor"
"No la, she is studying hotel and cooking, not tayloring"
"O.....you dunno meh, i heard hor now, taylor not only teach sewing, they teach cooking also !"
" Ya lo, now economic no good, taylor also must get second job"
"YaloYalo !, my son also take another job, and hor.........blah blah"

THE PREPARING COMITTEE

(president) Auntie preparing the electricity need,

(comittee member) Uncle helping, and

(advisor) greatgrandma preparing herslef to celebrate by.....waiting.

THE UNCLES
When come to uncles, there's nothing more than fighthing on thier knowledge on how bad the politician are, and how good the tea are.

THE MONEY MAKERS

Well, what is more challenging then making some money?
"shiu ! Shiu ! dont take my picture !!"

"erm...ok... but nevermind, i am going to reveal you in the next picture!!"


HEre you are ^^ , my dearest grandma~

TO BE CONTINUE...............................