Happy Lunar New Year! Lunar New Year aka Chinese New Year is a huge festival in Singapore for all ethnic Chinese. Just for those who do not know, in Singapore Chinese takes up 70+% of the population, the rest is made up of Malays, Indians and Others.
Where else to have a taste of the festival than Chinatown! So hubby and I went down this year to try to get some New Year goodies since it's our first New Year in our own place.
It was an uncomfortable shopping experience with the horrible crowd and I was struggling not to get pushed by the streaming crowd while I snapped on with my camera. But I must say the festive atmosphere was to it's maximum. The whole street was filled with New Year music, decorations (all in red which is the auspicious colour) and a lot of food items with auspicious meanings.
Oh, and we even met the God of Fortune, every New Year you'd meet someone dressed up to give out goodies! I was joking with my hubby about how much resemblance we can find between Santa and God of Fortune. Both give gifts (Santa gives Christmas gifts and wishes, while God of Fortune gives $$), both are in red costumes and both have beard (only Santa's white while God of Fortune's black)!
Besides buying goodies, part of the fun comes from making them yourself! I made some almond cookies and went over to my mother-in-law's to help her make pineapple tarts.
Last but not least my favourite part of the festival is to dress up for it! I was decked in the festive colours of red and orange (to please the seniors) for the 1st and 2nd day (there are 15 days for CNY) of house visiting.
Do you feel my hectic schedule and joy of the festival? :)
Ash :o)
xin nian kuai le! I love Lunar New Year. Outfit number two is beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Ladies :) All the best to you in 2012. We don't have a whole lot going on in Chicago...there were some hot pot specials in Chinatown :)
ReplyDeleteI like how you played with red in your outfits. It's such an auspicious color.
ReplyDeleteLove seeing all the festive stuff. Wish I could be there.
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Chinese New Year sounds like such a festive time of the year and I love how you wore those red outfits!!! :) You look really cute!
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those photos are so festive!
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Chinese new year is the best new year you can have I've think :) You look really cute!
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ohmygosh your polka dot dress is amazing!!!! its sooo cute!!!! :)
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How beautiful!! Happy CNY! <3
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Bonnie
loving your blog, keep it up, as always!
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ohhh I love the bamboos! these photos make me wish to go back to Taiwan for New year, it's been too long since I've been!
ReplyDeleteHappy Chinese New Year! fantastic photos!x
ReplyDeleteHappy lunar new year to you too!! Singapore looks so warm and energetic! I love that~~ the night markets looks so fun. are those money trees? LOL i think my mom bought some of those to place in the house hahah! they sell them over here in nyc too in asian centered towns :P the god of fortune looks so cool hahah! i think it's called, xia shen yeh in chinese? (Sorry, bad pinyin there..lol) woah those almond cookies look pretty good..i love almond flavored snacks lol! love your floral outfit btw~~~!!
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Happy lunar new year!! your outfits are soo pretty! I love how vibrant they are :)
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