Grandma's Birthday

Happy 92nd Birthday Grandmama (93rd according to Chinese reckoning)

Long overdue post – pictures of Grandma’s birthday in March as promised to all at home. As a bonus (or more like to make up for the long delay), I’ve thrown in last year’s birthday pictures as well. And I WILL get down to doing something on Facebook for me and Anu …soon. Lazy, and am becoming …err resistant to change and new technology, yet another sign of aging shite!


Dad and Mom


Gary, Granny, Auntie Choo and 3rd Auntie (Sanh-Ko) Lucy


Jane, Anu and Granny


Jason, Mark, Kim, Granny, Jamie and Hazel


2nd Uncle (Jipek), Jamie, Rachel, Kim and Ben


Anu, Daphne and Jack

Well, here’s a lunar-solar calendar I found in the net of the Year 1917, Year of the Snake, Grandmother’s supposedly birth sign and therefore birth year. This was a leap year in the Chinese Calendar and it had 2 Second Months. Taking the Chinese birth date of Granny as the 15th day of the 2nd Month of the Chinese Calendar as what we’ve been using so far, the Western Calendar equivalent would be 8th March 1917 (same birth date as yours truly) or 6th April 1917 (if she’s born on the repeated 2nd Month). By that reckoning, she’d be 92 years old now according to the Western Calendar.



Granny’s Birthday 2008 – Big Auntie (Tua-Ko), Kok Seng, Granny, Small Auntie (Seihan-Cim) and Small Uncle (Seihan-Ceik)


Granny’s Birthday 2008 – Kim, Mom, Gary, Anu, Dad, Hazel and Granny


Granny’s Birthday 2008 – 2nd Auntie (Jiko), Mark, June, Granny and Jamie (front); Patrick, Rachel, Jane and Chee Kan (back)