Celebrating New Year’s Eve and My Favourite Couple’s 56th Anniversary

NYE was a low key affair...just the way I like it! :) Started the day shopping with Mi Mujer and eating our way around town...our usual MO (or rather Mi Mujer did since I was too full after lunch) and ended it with dinner at a Middle Eastern restaurant called Laziz in Solaris Hartamas. Thing is, I didn’t know that every NYE, they always throw some sort of celebration/party thingy there so when we got there, the area was full of people. I found out later through the poster there that this year’s theme was Carnivale (which explains the people going around in feathered costume and headgear). Luckily for us, the restaurant where we were having our dinner was far for the maddening crowd (not only was it around the corner, but it was at the end of the road as well) so yeah, the party was pretty much out of sight from where we were (but unfortunately we could still hear the party...or rather the awful singers performing at the party :P).



My NYE date



We had some Middle Eastern Food platter which was a combination of shish tawook, shish kebab, lamb cube and lamb chop and it was delish! (even Mi Mujer who doesn’t really fancy lamb enjoyed the dish).



Yummy!



Unfortunately (or fortunately in my case), we were too full to order dessert so Mi Mujer just had a tiny cup of Turkish coffee while we sat there contemplating our past achievements and future goals (yes, we can be deep sometimes...haha).  Next thing we knew, it was already midnight and just as we were about to finally get up and leave the restaurant, some fireworks display went off from behind the building that was opposite our restaurant. I swear it was the closest Mi Mujer and I have ever been to a firework display that we were in awe (I was too busy staring and only managed to take crappy pics). In fact, we were so close (the fireworks seemed to be directly above us) that the debris from the fireworks landed all around us.

See those brown stuff littering the street? that's the debris from the fireworks

Tried rushing off after the fireworks display but we still got caught in the traffic (first there was the ridiculously long queue to pay the parking tix then the traffic within the parking lot which took about half an hour ....luckily once we were out of the parking lot, there was hardly any traffic on the way home). Finally reached home around 1.30am and wished all my cats a Happy New Year (since none of the human occupants were awake). Big shout out to Mi Mujer for being a great NYE date.. :D

Woke up early the next day to wish my grandparents Happy Anniversary (I wonder how it feels like being married for 56 years?!) and helped prepare brekkie since nenek invited everyone over for brekkie. After brekkie datuk pulled out a box filled with old pics and we had fun going through the pics and reminiscing.

Box of memories

I even found pics of Lil’ sis and I posing away during a holiday in Frasier’s Hill. To think that I once was a camwhore...tsk..tsk...though I must say I was pretty good in front of the camera back then (my signature pose was the head tilt and hands on the waist/hip). That prolly explains my fascination with ANTM..heh.

My datuk my hero :D

Dinner was actually the main event of the day as we all chipped in to bring something to the table....The Kids made shepherd’s pie and coleslaw, I made spaghetti and banoffee pie and ordered pizza and The Koala’s contributed a cake.

I'm so glad that datuk nenek enjoyed the dinner and had a bit of everything eventhough they have a tendency to be fussy eaters...haha (datuk even had seconds of my banoffee pie...yay!).

Surrounded by good food and the company of a great family, I'd say it was exactly what I needed to kick off the new year (a plus would be having Mi Amor by my side). I know datuk nenek won't be reading this (unless someone *ehem* Lil' sis* shows it to them) but I just thought I'd get this off my chest


 "Happy New Year and Happy 56th Anniversary Datuk Nenek!! May there be many more to come and may all of  us be blessed with a great marriage like yours! You both are an inspiration and I love you loads"

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