Lame for Some, Nauseating to Others
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to ya’ll mooncake freaks. Let us all sing an ode to the babe in da moon, Miss Chang Er. Hope ya got a nice life in da moon always. Oh, yea. Neil Armstrong says hi to you and your crazy bunny. Any of you suckers munching mooncakes while reading my post?
Read moreThis post is something from home – a Sunday cemetery picnic for the whole family! No. It ain’t no April Fool’s joke, this is for real. It’s Qing Ming lah, the Chinese celebration for the dead and departed. It is also a celebration to pay tribute to our ancestors. For us is kinda like a ‘picnic’ cos it falls on
Read moreFor the Hokkiens, yesterday was the last day of the Chinese New year celebration although the actual period was 15 days for other Chinese clans. The 9th day celebration was known to the Hokkiens as ‘Bai Tian Gong’ (拜天公) which literally means ‘praying the Heaven God’.
Read moreHappy Winter Solstice Festival peeps! Winter Solstice Festival also known as Dong Zhi is basically a Chinese thanksgiving day based on the Chinese calendar. “Dong Zhi” literally means the “arrival of winter” and coinciding with the winter solstice, it is an occasion for the family to get together to celebrate the good year they have had.
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