Diwali The Chilled Out Way
3 Nov
Diwali has always been a laid-back chilled out affair in my household. Always consisted of visiting some relatives (or they would come over), binging, eating, watching tv, more eating, lazing around – see told you, chilled out as chilled out can be! It does almost appear like any other weekend except it truly is a GREAT time and excuse to gorge on sweets and delicacies which my mom would make oh so deliciously! My mom would always spend days cleaning up the house and altar before Diwali and cook up a storm on that day itsef.
On the surface it may seem non- traditional at all, but honestly, it’s the best type Diwali we could ask for 
And safe to say, it doesn’t make us any less Indian or Hindus because end of the day we do more good than evil and that matters the most :) [Kinda beats those who do lots of evil yet go to the temple and pretend to be pious innit] (sorry digressed a bit, heh).
Anyway my uncle turned the BIG 60 a day before Diwali. He flew down from Hyderbad to celebrate it with everyone. It was held in Lala Chong in Subang (awesome food really). I was in charge of getting the cake :D You can never go wrong when you let the person with the sweetest tooth be in charge of the cake I tell you 
No guesses who I ordered the cake from! Haha :D Little did I know that Eunice was probably baking my birthday cake at the same time this order came in. Since he works for an airline company, I just had to ask her to include a little air- plane but someone pointed out about the missing ‘tail’! So if this was a real plane, the pilot would have problems taking off I reckon.
The cake was extremely yummy nevertheless, extra moist with a sweet icing to go with it! A total hit!
Birthday boy all smiles as we sang the compulsory birthday song. My aunt looks so happy here
A family potrait
A group photo. I think I forgot to take a photo of the hubby, can only see his shoes, lol
There, a complete group photo!
Baby Sairah wore that pink dress. It finally can fit her well and boy does she look soooo sweet in it!
She was also much happier sitting in the ‘adult’ table so I let her grandma take care of her. Baby Girl was too cool for our table apparently
They even have a karaoke set in the private room so my dad belted out Si Jantung Hati, LOL. It’s his favorite Malay song. If you know how rotten his malay usually is, you’d be suprise how he can even sing in malay!
Then obviously we took over and had a blast belting out to various soapy songs. And I sang my heart out SOBER – so proud of myself *pats back*
This was the morning of Diwali. And we look as chilled out as possible. Why? Coz we got to celebrate it in KL this year, wohooo!! And ooo I love how shiny my hair looks thesedays. I think it has to do with turning 30, LOL
BIG kiss for Baby Sairah.
We decided to have a simple lunch out, just the three of us. Since I was going to redeem my chocolate fudge cake from Merienda De Eva, decided we would eat there too to reminisce our Phillipines trip. God I miss Makati!!
Chicken Relleno – which was a combo of turkey and chicken. Really good, even the mash potato was good and a hit with Sairah.
This Grilled Chicken dish was sweet, just like how the Filipinos like it.
Baby Sairah’s lunch – I kid. Don’t be fooled by the carrot in her mouth, it was just for ’show’. Or rather as a ‘teether’ and to keep her busy.
HAH fooling everyone into thinking I”m having my vegs when I’m not even biting into it. Suckers!
Aah, no one does cakes better than the Filipinos. This is the Banana Toffee cake. Pretty good but not as good as their signature Chocolate Fudge cake! And I love the little message left on the plate. It was a nice day indeed Coz after that we actually headed to Amcorp to pick out my birthday gift
Ah this is more like it. Cake monster attacking the cake
As we were leaving the restaurant the waiter (yes it was a dude) said the husband looks handsome with his shades hence this look of happiness! Yes this man indeed loves his compliments since I’ve stopped giving him any after Sairah’s birth. She gets all my compliments now
In the evening we packed up our bags and went to my parent’s place for a simple house party.
Sairah getting an angpow from Grandpa.
She loves her money alright. Little piggie bank is growwwing!
Even our old lil doggie joined in the fun and festivity.
Sairah and her favorite Uncle. Pictured at the back is the husband and his whiskey. Somebodddy had a little hangover the next day, yet had to drag himself to work
More angpow!
More eating!
Our Man-ny for the day, tee hee. We’re seriously thinking of hiring him on weekends.
And that was how we celebrated our Diwali in KL. LOVED every second of it. Hope you all had a good one too
Diwali should fall on a weekday, every year I swear Just saying, ya know? 
one question:
why did sarah could be smiling all the way from the 1st pix to the last?
gosh!she is so adorable baby girl
p/s: not an important issue anyway
hv a nice day
Thanks Joanne. How she managed to smile in all the pics? I guess I snap em at the right time, hehe that plus she just loves to smile too. Thanks for your sweet compliments. You have a nice day too
the pic where she is “teething” on the carrot is so adorble
Haha thanks Abi, it’s one of my fav pics, she has this ‘do i like it or not’ look!
agree.any holiday on weekday will be cool,hey looking at all your photos,I feel very happy for you guys,great company,great laughter.life is all that we make it,right?
Hey Eugene, thanks, I demand Diwali to be on a weekday every year, lol. Yea we indeed had a good time, good food with good company and that’s how life should be
Happy Diwali!
Lovely lovely pix!
Thank you thank you. Would be more lovely if I had used my new camera, hehe
Oh wow! Love it how it’s not traditional! Lovely picture as always!
Haha yes, chilled out, hehe. Thanks!
I just got to see the photos clearly! I read the post from my phone yday. OMG, Sairah is sooo cute! Munching on a carrot eh? And the way she looks at grandpa when he was giving her the angpow. Awwww too cute!
LOL no worries. Thanks, she was just ‘pretending’ to munch on carrots. Kept her quiet for a bit! Yup she lovesss her angpow and $ already, hehe.
Happy Diwali to you and your famiy.
Always enjoy reading your post.. feels the warmth and happiness. You have a really cool family and close-knit family ties
Btw the way the photo with only your hubby feet -hilarious.
Thanks babe. Aww, thanks, I am blessed to be surrounded by my great family members who are always there for us and very supportive at everything we do.
Hahaha I know right, lucky got few more photos of him in it otherwise he’ll think I did it on purpose, lol.
Happy Diwali and Happy belated Birthday to you! Sairah smiles in pictures a lot! Jealous I. Mick doesn’t smile so much in pictures these days.
Thanks AZ. Ah yes she does, but she has her off days too. Sometimes I have to try REAL hard to get her to smile. Don’t worry, Mick still looks awesome cute even without smiling