Chinese New Year (CNY) 2007

20 February 2007

Every year, during the last few days before Chinese New Year (CNY), my family will do our CNY shopping at all CNY shopping locations across Tampines. Usually, we will cover the Town Centre (TC) and all Neighbourhood Centres (NC) scattered around Tampines. This CNY shopping trend continues to be my favourite highlight of CNY every year.

CNY shopping (15.2.07)
After the specialist review appointment, Mumy and I went to take a look at the new wing of Novena Square. After which, Mumy brought me to pray at Bugis Waterloo Street Kwanyin Temple and we started our CNY shopping at the Rochor / Bugis area... I bought a new OP T-shirt at OG and the highly anticipated "NANA 16" at Kinokuniya... Both of us continue to shop at Tampines Central...

Later that night, my family went to Tampines Neighbourhood 2 Centre (N2C) for dinner and some CNY shopping. As I was really bored, I started taking photos to document the CNY atmosphere of N2C. I am really looking forward to more CNY shopping tomorrow...


Tampines N2C (15.2.07)


Tampines N2C (15.2.07)

ECNYE shopping (16.2.07)
I woke out around 10am. After taking a shower and a hearty early lunch of beehoon, I embarked on my solo part of Eve of Chinese New Year (ECNYE) shopping at around 12pm. I purposely took the hour long bus #10 ride to Vivocity to recollect memories of Grade 5 Music Theory lesson and the numerous Saturday rehearsals of NDP 2006. It is also because as bus #10 starts from Tampines bus interchange, I will get a seat, which is important for me, as I am still nursing a fracture injury. Upon reaching the destination, I admit that I was really giddy...

After grabbing 9 long-wanted releases for just $45 at Vivocity music junction (MJ) on 2.2.07, I bought TRF's album "BRAND NEW TOMORROW" and 3 of their concert VCD "BRAND NEW TOMORROW IN TOKYO DOME ~PRESENTATION FOR 1996~", "TOUR '98 Live in Unite!" and "TOUR 1999 EXICOAST TOUR AT OSAKA Live" today. I purchased these 4 titles for just $20! At $5 each, these 13 purchases were absolutely value-for-money, considering that most of these releases are Out-Of-Print (OOP) now and retails that still sell them would usually charged a high price of $25 or more for each of them.

After some wandering at Vivocity and the cosy bookstore, I took bus #65 to Orchard. I bought Every Little Thing's acoustic album "ACOUSTIC : LATTE" at Orchard MRT Station CD-RAMA before returning home at around 5pm.

After a short rest at home, Mumy and I went to Tampines Neighbourhood 5 Centre (N5C) for some light shopping at around 6pm. This marked the beginning of the latter half of this year's ECNYE shopping. I bought BoA's 5th album "MADE IN TWENTY (20)" and Ito Yuna's 1st album "HEART" from Century Square Sembawang.

As I am determined to obtain ABRSM Music Theory Grade 8 this year (partly also because I am really bored and free due to my injury), I bought a copy of "A HANDBOOK OF MUSIC THEORY GRADES 6 - 8" from Yamaha for self-study.

To my greatest surprise, the long-awaited "The Official Singapore Street Directory 2007" has been published. Needless to say, I bought a copy of "The Official Singapore Street Directory 2007" at Tampines Mall Popular. This is one of my biggest dream come true.

My brother rode his bike to join us at around 7pm. We went to shop for some vegetable at Tampines N5C before going home.


Tampines N5C (16.2.07)

After another short rest at home, we reached the climax of tonight's ECNYE shopping. At around 9pm, the whole family went to Tampines Neighbourhood 1 Centre (N1C) for our annual ECNYE shopping pilgrimage. We had lor mee for dinner at 137 food centre first, before we carry on to shop at the market for the delicious handmade meatball, braised duck and roast meat. After buying a walnut cake from prima deli, we returned home to put down our purchases before heading to our local Tampines Neighbourhood 4 Centre (N4C) for the finale of ECNYE shopping. N4C looks empty, as if it had been badly "raided" during an emergency.

It is a fulfilling day with tons of purchases. The most notable purchase (of cause) would be "The Official Singapore Street Directory 2007"!


Tampines N1C (16.2.07)


Cakes @ Tampines N1C (16.2.07)

CNYE (17.2.07)
I woke up very late on Chinese New Year (CNYE) at 3pm. Reunion steamboat started rather late this year, at 7pm...


Reunion Dinner (17.2.07)

CNY 2007 (18.2.07 ~ 20.2.07)
Despite sleeping rather early on CNYE at 2am, I woke up rather late again on CNY1 at 12pm... Sick and tired of explaining my injury again and again, I decided not to go to Ah Mah house at the very last minute, which is the first time I did not go for CNY visiting...

I continue to sleep early on CNY1 and CNY2, before 1am, and I woke up very late at 2pm for CNY2 and CNY3... Out of the blue, I decided to curfew myself from using my computer for all 4 days of CNY for no particular reason, and I make it. I realized that my daily routine for these 4 days are basically rinse & shine, late lunch, watch TV, dinner, watch TV and sleep... I did not do anything that is particularly interesting, but I guess this CNY will be memorable, due to my injury...


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