Chap Goh Mei (15th Day of the Lunar New Year) is this Saturday. Time whizzed by so quickly this round and it seems like just yesterday we were getting ready for the Reunion dinner. I love celebrating Chinese New Year. I have so many fond memories of the celebrations when I was a kid. Staying up late with my sisters on the eve to welcome the God of Prosperity in our new pyjamas, wearing new clothes and shoes on the first day of the new year, getting together at my aunt’s house with my many cousins, playing firecrackers, receiving angpows and eating chinese new year cookies. It was so much fun! So, I usually feel kinda sad when the celebration ends. There will be no more Chinese New Year decorations at the malls, red lanterns lining up along the streetlights will be taken down and everything is back to normal.
Below are some of the photos taken of our celebration.
Jade Emperor God celebration on Day 8 of the lunar new year at the stroke of midnight.
My mother-in-law made this Bee Koh (sweet glutinous rice cake) for the Jade Emperor God celebration. It is one of the must-have items for the celebration.
Lion dance at the Curve shopping mall.
4 strands of firecrackers being lit at my office. Yesterday was the first day of work in the Year of the Fire Rooster.
