Happy Chinese New Year 2016

Best wishes for Health, Happiness and Prosperity!

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Today is the eve of Chinese New Year, the 29th day of the 12th lunar month before the lunar calendar turns to the new lunar year. Tomorrow marks the new year of the Monkey, the Fire Monkey.

Want to ensure a better year ahead? Learn about when to start work in the new year. It is believed that starting work on the right (read auspicious) day will ensure that you will have a smooth year ahead.

Happy Chinese New Year 2015

Happy Chinese New Year - Gong Xi Fa Cai

Today is Chinese New Year. This year is the Year of the Wooden Fire Horse. Good colours to wear or use as in accessories, bags, and so forth are brown and green. Best days to start work in the new year? Check out 2014 Auspicious/Good Days to Start work in the Chinese New Year.

I wish you all a Happy Lunar New Year filled with happiness, good health and prosperity.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Today is Chinese New Year or Spring festival, i.e., the first day of this most important Chinese festival. It is also the first day of the Year of the Snake. Chinese New Year is celebrated for fifteen days.

You can read about what we do on the First day of Chinese New Year and about the Reunion dinner on Chinese New Year eve.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Auspicious days to start work after Chinese New Year festival

It is exactly a week from today when the Chinese community all over the world celebrates the most important festival of the lunar year, i.e., the Chinese New Year or Spring festival.

Chinese families are busy going about cleaning up their home and shopping for Chinese New Year goodies. The latter includes shopping for new clothes to wear to usher in the new year, decorative items including tangerine plants, pussy willow stalks and other flowering plants to adorn the home, and foodstuff synonymous with the happy occasion.

In Malaysia, more than 30% of the population are of Chinese descent so Chinese New Year is widely celebrated here. If you visit Malaysia this time of the year, you will notice the air of festivity everywhere and a hive of activity all over the country, from villages and small towns to big cities like Kuala Lumpur, Georgetown (Penang) and Johor Bahru down south, neighbour to Singapore.

Another aspect related to Chinese New Year is the annual exodus of people making their way back to their hometown to celebrate the festival with their family. In a few days time, roads all over the country will see more traffic than usual as people begin to make their journey home.

Chinese New Year is celebrated for fifteen days but people start getting back to work towards the end of the week. It is believed that the day one starts work after the Spring Festival will determine whether one will have a good year ahead. What is an auspicious day to start work then?

This article on Auspicious days and dates to start work after Chinese New Year 2013 in Year of the Snake can give you an idea in picking a best day to go back to work.

I wish you all a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year of the Black Water Snake!

GONG XI FA CAI!

Happy Chinese New Year!

To All Chinese Friends and Readers,

Best wishes for a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous Chinese New Year..

and may all your dreams and wishes come true in the new year of the Dragon which begins on January 23, i.e., tomorrow.

Auspicious days to start work in the Year of the Dragon 2012

In less than a week, the Chinese community around the world will be celebrating the Spring Festival or more commonly-known here in Malaysia as the Chinese New Year.

The Chinese New Year festival begins on January 23 and lasts for fifteen days, the last day of which ends in yet another celebration. This celebration within a celebration is Chap Goh Meh, literally meaning the Fifteenth Night in the Hokkien/Teochew dialect.

This fifteenth day celebration is also referred to as the Lantern Festival which is also sometimes known as the Chinese Valentine's Day. In the old days, unmarried girls used to toss mandarin oranges into a body of water, a lake or a river, with the hope of getting a good husband. Here in Malaysia, this tradition is still being practised at a lake in Petaling Jaya, though as part of an organized fun activity to round off the Chinese New Year.

Everyone desires for good fortune flowing from start to end of every new year. Some people are proactively adhering to starting their first day of work at a designated auspicious day after the Chinese New Year celebration. Like in past years, this Year of the Dragon has days that are good and bad to start work for every animal sign. Tradition dictates that one can increase one's chances of a better year ahead by picking a good day to start work. You can find out here the auspicious days to start work. If you need help with finding out the animal sign you were born in, Wikipedia can help.


Image:Chinese lanterns in the night sky of Lijiang, Yunnan - Wikipedia

Penang's Chinese New Year Sizzling Street Party

If you are in Penang, join thousands of people including tourists who will be making a beeline to the heritage enclave in George Town, Penang, today to take part in the annual grand celebration of Chinese culture.

A memorable day of activities and entertainment awaits visitors at the Chinese New Year Cultural and Heritage Celebration to be held from 3pm till midnight.

Armenian Street, Cannon Street, Chulia Street, Acheh Street, Carnavon Street, Kampung Kolam, Soo Hong Lane and Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling will come alive during the one-day celebration.

By the way, while in Penang, you may want to also visit the Kek Lok Si temple in Air Itam from today until Feb 14 to view it in its festive splendour all lit up. It is said that during Chinese New Year, roughly 230,000 light bulbs and 10,000 lanterns will be lit every night.


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Festive Chinese New Year cuisine on MAS flights

If you are flying on Malaysian Airlines to China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan during this festive season of Chinese New Year, you may be happy to note that you will have a choice of Chinese cuisine.

Among the authentic Chinese dishes available on the new menu are pan-fried silver cod served with soy sauce glaze, yong chow fried rice with crab meat and diced scallops, stir-fried noodles with chicken and julienned vegetables, steamed red garoupa yuh siang-style, barbecued chicken pau and Chinese congee with shredded dried scallops.

MAS currently operates 82 flights per week to China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.



Source: The Star

Chinese New Year Street Festival/Open House

If you are in Kuala Lumpur or happen to be here in KL on Feb 7, you may want to note this date as the national-level Chinese New Year open house will be held at Pavilion Bukit Bintang on Feb 7.

The gathering, in the form of a street festival has a theme of "Unity through Festivity". It is expected to attract some 50,000 people. Be part of this memorable event in which Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdul­lah Ahmad Badawi is expected to greet visitors.

The Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry, which is organizing this event, cited the choice of the Pavilion due to its prominence in the city and the area is easily accessible by public transport.

The main event will be from 8.30pm to 10.30pm, followed by the people’s performances which will run from 10.30pm to midnight. There will be lion dances, a drum performance by multi-racial performers, stilt-walking performances and a lantern performance. There will also be an exhibition on calligraphy.

The artistes slated to perform at the festival include Fauziah Latiff, Den Bisa and Lee Mau San.

Source: Open house to be held at Pavilion on Feb 7..The Star

Shopping with Coupon Codes

Yesterday saw the last day of the Lunar New Year celebration. The Lunar New Year is celebrated by the Chinese community for a time-period of fifteen days. This year, the Lunar or Chinese New Year began on February 18. Many Chinese left the cities to go home to celebrate this most important of festivals. Kuala Lumpur was quiet during the holidays. For those not celebrating, it was a good time for a spot of leisure travelling considering the availability of cheap fares one can obtain online with coupon codes.

Travelling entails a few other associated activities such as shopping for suitcases perhaps or getting the right clothes or shoes for the much looked-forward-to vacation. Some reading material is a must, of course. For books, I like to shop at Amazon.com, and with Amazon.com coupons, there is no reason why not. And for greater savings, get some coupons when you next go shopping.

The Second Day of the Chinese or Lunar New Year

The Chinese or Lunar New Year is celebrated for fifteen days starting on the first day of the Lunar New Year which was yesterday, February 18. The celebration actually began the eve of the New Year when family members travel far and wide to return home for the reunion dinner. It is more or less like an exodus. That is why during such major celebrations, the city of Kuala Lumpur is deserted devoid of traffic jams.

Today is the second day of the Chinese New Year. This is the day when married daughters return to visit their parents bearing gifts of foodstuff and oranges, symbols of wealth and properity.

Happy Chinese NewYear

Today is the first day of the Chinese or Lunar New Year. These days, Chinese New Year is celebrated in a much less noisier atmosphere ever since firecrackers have been banned by the government several years ago. The only loud noise we hear comes from the drums of the lion dance troupes where drum beats accompany the dance. So far, I have not seen any lion dance performance but did hear the drums in the distance.

Best wishes to you for a new year filled with happinese, health and wealth.

The Reunion Dinner

Tomorrow is the eve of Chinese New Year and Chinese families will be having their annual reunion dinner where sons and unmarried daughters will hurry home from work to partake in this important occasion.

Today being Friday and for most, the last day of the workweek before the Chinese New Year festival, a lot of people would be heading home travelling miles outstation. There would be traffic jams downtown and some parts of the highway. In fact, the streets in Kuala Lumpur are packed with last-minute shoppers.

Pomeloes

Do you know what fruit these are? These are pomeloes and are popular during the Chinese New Year. These are mostly grown up north in the state of Perak and this year's harvest has been reported to be low due to the rain in the middle of last year. Prices are expected to go up a little this year.

Picture source: The Star