Fire and rain…

You’ve met Nicholas before in this post. He’s my ex-student, now a teacher…and he posted some photos of the New Year countdown in Sibu on Facebook and tagged me. I thought they were really very nice and so I asked for his permission to share them with everybody here…

I understand it was raining heavily that night…and there were a whole lot of fireworks and firecrackers around town. Unfortunately, I slept through all that – from 2009 to 2010! I woke up for a few seconds to hear that darn neighbour’s string of firecrackers and fell asleep almost instantly – did not even stay awake to hear the loud bang at the end. LOL!!!

So where were you on 31st December, counting down to the  New Year – 2010?

In keeping with the tradition, in the morning, I cooked some chicken soup with ginger and Foochow red wine…and boiled some eggs so everyone could have mee sua when they got up…and in the evening, we went over to my parents’ place for dinner.

My missus made this plate of salad – the way my family has been doing in for years ever since the time of my maternal grandma and aunties…

…and everyone loved it, especially, my parents – they certainly had a whole lot of that.

My sister bought some dishes from a restaurant somewhere in the vicinity of the Civic Centre in Sibu. The butter fish fillet was very nice…

…but the Philippine pork leg was a bit overdone…

…so it was kind of hard or crunchy on the outside. She also bought these barbecued chicken wings from a stall at Simpang Tiga here…

– the best in the world! These have been my favourite since God knows when…and at the time, they were only RM1.00 each. Now the price has gradually risen to RM2.00 – talk about inflation, that’s an increase of 100%. I thought they were nicer originally but they’re still good and better than any that I may get elsewhere.

So that’s about it! I did not take any more photos besides these as I did not want to hold up the dinner. What did you all have for your New Year’s dinner? Care to share?