CNY 2014: Day 2

CNY 2014: Second Day (年初二)

After having our breakfast, we heading to Viva Home for 100 Doraemon Secret Gadgets Expo. Doraemon was one of the comic and cartoon series that I read and watched since l was small. Doraemon not just meant for my generation or the generation before, this cartoon still famous till today. Well, since we were in KL, we just paid a visit to the expo and let my Little Ze had some fun before the expo ends. 

Take a picture before we went up to the Viva Home Expo Hall at second floor.

Look at the queue!

While waiting, we took some photo at the front of the hall.

 “Knock! Knock! Anybody there?” I love this mini door. We had to knock at the door to redeem the Space Figurine.

At the entrance.

Just a brief info about Doraemon. Created by Fujiko Fujio. Doraemon is a cat-trpe robot born on 3^rd September, 2112. He came with Sewashi, Nobita’s great-great-granson, from the 22^nd century. His role is to help Nobita by using his secret gadgets from his fourth-dimentional pocket. On the other hand, he is also scatteredbrained… Doraemon is Nobita’s guardian and best friend. His favorite food is dorayaki. What does he hate the most? Tell you later.

We were entering the time machine tunnel.

Then we reach at Doraemon Factory. Have you ever seen a yellow Doraemon? Yes, Doraemon was originally yellow in color.

One day, the poor fellow had his ears bitten off by a robot mouse while its in the factory. That’ is why Doraemon hates mice. Oh I’m sad! (Pretending) And my Little Ze hug me and said “Mummy, don’t cry! I love you!” My heart melted.

Doraemon depressed, he cried and cried and cried, until his tears washed off his original yellow paint, revealing his now iconic blue body!

Entering the 100 Doraemon display area.

Lot’s of tanglungs. Full of CNY mood!

We walked through the "Anywhere Door" (任意门), a door that opens up to any place the user wishes.

The first figure we could recognize was this. 

This gadget allows you to crop out your shadow. Your shadow then will replace you to finish your works, From time to time, it will absorb your knowledge. After 2 hours, your shadow will totally replace you. Little Ze knew this gadget because he watched this episode before. 

Little Ze wanted me to read the description of each figure with him. Oh dear! It was 100 figures! Can you imagine that? Luckily after covering 50% of the figures, he wanted to go washroom. We stopped reading after that.

Baby Hang loved this. It can come up with a variety of gadgets just like the real Doraemon but all the gadgets is smaller as well. It suits Baby Hang!

Baby Hang: Let me hold your hand.
Gadget: Ok! No problem!
Look at Doraemon's reaction.... 

You are so cute! Let me touch your face.

Here were some of the photo taken with the figures.

Then, we proceed to Church and comic area.

After that, we reached at the playground and Nobita’s room. Haha..imagine ourself in the world of Doraemon. We immerged ourself in the world of Doraemon with a recreation of scenes and locations from the cartoon.

There was a game area but we did not stop for that. Then, we reached at the collectible items area. We collected our photo taken at the booth here. We bought a mug and some postcards as collection. We did not buy much as the merchandise was quite expensive.

After having fun in the exhibition, we stopped at the Doraemon Café to try out Doraemon’s favorite snack, Dorayaki, Memory Toast and Doraemon-themed pancakes and drinks. I would say the food was overpriced and bad in taste. The pancakes were so dry and hard. 

And do you notice there were ‘something’ on the Dorayaki?

The only food that taste better was Taiyaki.

Other than that, the cafeteria’s tables and the floor were dirty. May be there were too many people during holiday.

There was another Giant Family Store next to the cafeteria that sells exclusive Doraemon merchandise. We didn’t bring any home.

If you ask me how’s the exhibition? My answer will be ‘so-so’. Well, at least my Little Ze had some Doraemon joy. That’s good enough. 

At night, we had our reunion dinner with our family. Uncle and aunties, cousins, kids and baby ... 4 generations gathered. Everyone was happily enjoyed the dinner, especially grandmother. She was so happy and had a great day! 

CNY 2014: Eve and Day 1

Chinese New Year 2014 had been over for nearly two months. Now only I have time to sit down to retrieve the photo taken during CNY and blog about it. Oh dear, so many of photo to sort out! Well, this year we had our CNY celebration a bit different from previous. We had our family trip to KL for 4 days and 3 nights to visit our grandmother and for some shopping.

CNY 2014: Eve (除夕)

We had our simple reunion dinner, just the few of us. My in-laws cooked a square meal, instead of having steamboat. Yummy! 

 Look at Baby Hang! Cheeky boy!

We were so happy and always feel great to have our own family reunion. Most importantly, it was great to see my boys accompany and entertain their grandparents. You could hear their laughter and feel the joy. Both of my boys slept before twelve as they were too tired after playing for whole day. They were so deeply in sleep even the firecracker and fireworks here and there couldn't wake them up.

CNY 2014: First Day (年初一)

Early in the morning, we got ready and I let my 2 boys wore Chinese costume. This was Baby Hang’s first Chinese New Year in his life. 

Both kids got their ang pows from grandparents. 

They got their ang pows from us too! 

See….they were counting and... so happy!

After some CNY visiting, we started our journey to KL. When we reached KL, we stopped at The Gardens Mall. We knew that most of Chinese restaurants closed on the first day of CNY. We thought that the shops in shopping mall would open year long. Opps…we were wrong. Only 1 or 2 Chinese restaurants remained their business. We just simply chose one and had our simple dinner there. 

Before leaving the mall, I took a few shots of the mall’s CNY deco. They were so beautiful. We did not manage to take all. There were too many them and we were in a rush.

 When will I have the chance to wear Cheongsam again?

It was quite late at night when we reached uncle’s house. Grandmother still stayed awake waiting for us! Two great grandchildren gave her hugs. How sweet they were!

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Green… You inspired me!

Not long ago, my friend asked me to make a card for a very special person and the card will be given to him during a breastfeeding event. This very special person is a leading international civil society person who has contributed much to our society in areas of consumer, health environment, human rights and so forth. He is a grassroots environmental activist. He loves greens. I was honored to have the chance to make a card for him. 

Since he loves greens, I captured and ‘moved’ the beautiful scenery into the card. I would say: “Green… You inspired me!”

Here’s the outcome:  

It’s a sunny day! It’s such a nice day to have a ride in the park. My card has trees, flowers, butterflies, birds! Blue skies, rainbow, wind blows… Isn't it nice?

I punched 3 circles from 3 different green patterned papers to make the trees. I stamped the sentiment on each of the trees. For the sun, I layered the paper flower with a punched circle and a scalloped circle. A big yellow button is added on top of it. 

I’m entering this layout to

Chic Tags March 2014 Challenge Sunday - It's a green challenge.

Love this photo...

Love our beautiful earth! 

Love our lovely environment! 

Green! Green! Green!