Malaysia Trip Dec08
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Here's the long awaited blog post on my malaysia trip Dec2008!
Dec 19th
Departed singapore at around noon and we went to malaysia via my dad's car. Took a 4 to 5hours ride before we reached our destination. It was kinda different this year. Instead of going to kajang first, ( where my grandfather and grandmother stayed) we put up at my second uncle's house which was another hour's drive from kajang.
Dec 20th
Woke up in the morning at around 9am and i walked around my uncle's spacious house. Oh ya, at around 1am the previous night when i was asleep, my third uncle and aunt flew from Singapore and put up at my second uncle's house as well. We basically spent the day getting ready for my grandmother's 70th birthday or rather known as the 'da shou' by the Chinese. Everyone dressed up in formal wear and headed towards the restaurant at around 4pm. We reached 'da tong' restaurant at around 5pm and it was rather empty coz most of our guests had not arrived. By the way, we booked one section of the restaurant so we had about 20 tables to ourselves. Haha. Being the hosts, we had to help out in the last minute decoration and arrangement of the tables. The guests started flowing in at around 6.30pm and soon the function room was filled up. We kicked off the event with my second uncle being the emcee and having him to introduce the 'stars' of the day! The lights were dimmed and my grandmother and grandfather walked into the room on the red carpet. Music was playing in the background while they stepped onto the stage with the spotlight shining at them. Haha. What a dramatic scene!
We had a video showing their past and the video also contained a lot of the past memories that my grandparents spent together because it just happens to be their 50th wedding anniversary too! Yea basically we had dinner, two other videos and a singing session! Haha.
Here's some photos taken during the dinner!

Family portrait!
Clement and Vincent

Lyndsey and Soke Yee
Clement and Me

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