Happy Lunar New Year

Baking, Baking

This year's Lunar has been busy, busy and busy.... in the midst of the bacterial flu hovering around me while I was helping my ma baking kueh Bankit and Pineapple tarts, it is truly a huge effort especially the cleaning up part... this year, the oven is here to stay so we did the true authentic way of baking them.... I have also changed my bedsheets with new ones.

Ang baos irony

It feels abit funny that I've grown past twenty-five and still receiving ang baos (red packets), especially from my 2 sisters who were married, now with children of their own, while I am still single and not married. Well, I guess they probably envy my freedom I have for now.
.. ha ha....

Cannot join my boyfriend for reunion dinner

As for the reunion dinner, my boyfriend and I figured out we wouldn't visit each other on that day for the dinner because his folks feels that my boyfriend cannot come to my place for reunion and vice versa... Initially, I felt a little sad, but I guess it is alright... we should respect the folks philosophy and practice wherever possible...

Lunar New Year Spring Cleaning philosophy

Every New Year eve, when I'm home, my dad would be out to drive the Taxi night-shift while my mum and I would start cleaning up the place and clearing the dust as much as possible before the clock strike twelve midnight. According to the tradition, after midnight, you cannot clear the dust or sweep it out of the house as it would mean that your prosperity would be swept out...haa haa!.... so what we'd do is to sweep inwards and collect the dust into the house...