This was how I was teaching an Adelaide-based Canadian friend, on how to pronounce the greeting of the season.
Happy Chinese New Year, dear readers!
Our’s will be, as usual, fun-filled with boisterous family members of three generations, all gathered at my parents’ place (my father being the eldest in his family), all turning up in new clothes to usher in the new year, ang pow’s being given out, food aplenty, tidbits everywhere, sounds of distant lion-dance-troupe drums banging.
Recent years, of course, have been a little different for obvious reasons. This year again will be yet more different with the addition of grandchild #15 (on my parents’ count), whom is also 1 month-old on the first day of Chinese New Year.
If you can tear yourself away from the fun-fill festivity to leave a comment here, How do you celebrate your Chinese New Year?
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No travelling for you eh?
I reckon I will be celebrating the 1st day
- fretting if I have packed all of boyboy’s stuff!
- hurrying in between the room where he will be sleeping to the kitchen (lest someone says I am not helping round the house)
- eating hurried meals…if not only those tidbits that are not fried (since I am still coughing)
- trying to remember to take my medication
- worrying that people are cooing too closely to boyboy causing him heavy distress!
- talking the 2 and a half hour journey back to Ipoh
2-4 day
- go out with hubby perhaps to rekindle what is left of our marriage!
- dinner with relatives!
Then it will be back to work until the follwing weekend where to Malacca we will be a trouping!
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Nah, no travelling for us. Both Mummee and I are local to KL. Which we are glad!
Like you, I think we’d be doing the same with 1 month old Caleb. I reckon I’d be needing to stock up on batteries since the baby monitor will likely be used a lot a lot!
CNY is here.
Gong Xi Fa Chai everyone!
We are pretty much KL folks now.
On the eve we had our reunion dinner in a restaurant. This year, my bro and sis-in-law went back to Penang, so we asked my mom, younger sis and brother to join us for tis auspicious meal.
Today we visited an old family friend, a friendship of now 4 generations, down town. Then we hurried back because some old school friends came by. That was quite a highlight for us.
Dinner was at my mum’s - steamboat. All my siblings were back, so Ah Ma was very pleased with her family complete: 5 kids, 2 sons-in-law, 1 daughter-in-law and 4 grandchildren.
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I’ve got to say as someone who works in the heart of Sydney’s China town I do love this time of year - always something happening in the streets to keep us entertained at lunchtimes.
Also glad to finally know how to pronounce things properly so I don’t make a fool out of myself - well any moreso than usual
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