Looking at my title, it’s clear that I’m not the person who writes daily.

Anyhow, 2012 Chinese Lunar New Year so far is rather remarkable.

I played mahjong once per day, and it’s only day 2 of the festival.

& I’ve learnt from this game – if you choose to be happy about winning, you’re gonna win more.

Like duh, who doesn’t feel happy about winning?

The thing is, it’s a struggle to smile especially when you’re losing.

Just like every day life, if you choose to look at things positively, things will look up to you.

Same goes to the saying – if you choose to think of what you lack of, you’re never gonna be happy.

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I had a great time bonding with my family, relatives over the game of mahjong.

Parents get extra tired during this time of the year over all the preparation and house visiting.

Mom was saying the other day, “Why bother to have steamboat when none of us could eat more than half of what we bought?”

True that but it’s only during CNY, my family come together. That’s the reason why I insist on having reunion dinner. It’s called reunion for a reason.

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Nevertheless, for the remaining 13 days of CNY, may all of us HUAT ah~

Aunt came over in the early noon to teach me how to make pineapple tarts. Technically, she taught me how to mold them and bake them. I don’t know how much of butter, egg, flour, sugar, salt, milk and other ingredients she added in. But I’m pretty sure she added too much butter in the dough because the batter turns out super powdery and milky. I like.

I love the momentum when you mold the dough into a ball, able to hear your own breathing, focusing entirely on the dough in your oily hands. The satisfaction when first batch perfectly baked was amazing.

But, we didn’t succeed on our first try.

We had to FAIL 3 times using our oven before we gave up and aunt went to GET A NEW OVEN just to bake all the dough she prepared and it was then a SUCCESS. I almost wanna thrash my microwave-or-was-it-oven on the floor because it has proven useless to bake cookies.

Nevertheless, awesome experience baking cookies using 2 ovens.