Birthday Party
Monday, 29 November, 2004
Kids | 笔者: Twinsmom
This year birthday same like last year, celebrate it down stair my MIL’s place, instead of up stair my place, too troublesome for my MIL to climb up stair, and also I don’t want to left out MCAP’s Auntie Shirley–she can’t climb the stair case at all liao, even though she is using a walking aid to walk, but sometime still felt down easily.
Original idea was just get a bucket of KFC, I make a cake, MIL make some red eggs, that is all. Not really want to trouble MIL to cook too much, she have to get a chair sit in front of the stove to cook, can’t stand for long.
But my MIL have her very own idea to celebrate her granddaughter’s birthday, so on the dinner table tonight we have:
- Red eggs, a must, every year this never miss, MIL will remember very well. (Psst! not like 5xmom :D)
- Zha-yok with black fungus 木耳炸肉, a typical Hakka dish, the best.
- Mushroom with fried chicken leg, yummy…
- Fried mee, nice
- Fish ball soup.
- 15 pcs of KFC, plus salad, mash potato, potato wedges.
My parent da-bao some more, and tomorrow I no need to cook :D.
Because MIL’s place quite cram, so I didn’t invite other friends, just family member, so…my parent, my #1 younger sister with her three kids–Xuan(12), Yi(11), Qing(10), her sister-in-law’s daughter Nicole(6), my BIL#2 with their kids–Shang-li(5), Min-li(2 1/2), and MCAP’s sister–my girls’ gu-ma.
Who was missing? MCAP’s youngest brother and wife, migrated to Australia. MCAP’s #1 brother, gone to Johor for business, their kids–Rachel(10) grounded at home because rude to her maternal grandma, Daniel(6) sister can’t come, he also can’t come.
When I was young, I only celebrated my birthday twice (as I remember), once when I was about 8, my mom made a cake in the shape of a book, I celebrating together with my #1 y. sister. The second time was when I turns 16th, still together with my sister, but this time she got friends and contact from her school, so they got the sound system, disco light every fancy stuff to turns the house became a disco. I was bored, I never dance, and I was a pretty square geek than, me and sister in a different school, we speak like chicken and duck.
The whole party i just remember the disco light, and when my parent came home after the bakery closed at 9pm, their face really really black. How was later? I don’t know, I gone to bed liao, so I didn’t know sister got lecture from our parent or not.
May be because of this I not very enthusiastic on prepare the girls’ birthday, even though I love them very much, I jsut don’t like to ma-fan people 劳师动众. But MCAP very eager to do all this, what he think is everyone only have one birthday every year, and that marks the mile stone.
MCAP and his sibling (all together 5 of them) celebrate their birthday every year, from full-moon to 18, never fail. they have their own album(late FIL like photography), they all post nicely behide the birthday cake, the background got a black board, with the beautiful calligraphy written with the chalk by my late FIL.
That was why MCAP hate cake, he said every year there was countless birthday, from them to their cousins, even though he enjoy the fun of birthday party, but he just can’t stand the cake. (my dad go “phew…”, otherwise the son-in-law also like his daughter love cake so much, no need to do business liao, cake habis eaten closed shop liao)
Next year there will be another few birthday party waiting ahead.