Chinese New Year: So what (else) can you do?
[Monday, 15 Feb, 7.45pm, second day of CNY and this was what I saw when I looked up to the sky. I like!]
It’s Chinese New year! And each country celebrates it differently.
Our uncle and aunt in the snowy and cold Netherlands cooked some meals and had a nice get together with friends at their home.
We made international calls to our relatives in Indonesia and we were told that it was totally festive back there in Jakarta.
Restaurants were fully booked (and charged higher rates). Shopping malls were very crowded and organised different CNY programmes!
[The fountain at Bugis Junction was all quiet on the first day of CNY]
Well, it’s kind of the opposite here in Singapore.
MANY places are closed (at least on the first day of CNY). The streets are quieter too.
[Except for Sentosa … I heard the newly opened Resorts World Sentosa was PACKED during those CNY days. Yet to check that out myself!]
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We have no families to visit (or get together with) here in Singapore, so we spent our CNY days with friends.
Kids had a good swim with many other little ones.
Some thirty to forty of us cooked some yummy steamboat food.
A group of us went to East Coast Park, cycled and roller-bladed, and ate junk food.
Oh, we tried to fly a kite too!
[It was 1pm and the sky was very glary. This shot was ‘unintentional’ as I sort of estimated where the kite was without looking at my Canon Ixus’ LCD screen. I like how the shot turned out though!]
Our colourful kite from Cotton On sort of ‘crashed’ to the sea side after a few good seconds though. Oh well. Gotta try it again next time!
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Many people asked : What else can we do during Chinese New Year holidays, anyway?
Now I hope I can get some ideas from others too. Please do share …
It’d be a great reference for many others when CNY comes again next year!
Thanks everyone!
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Hellooo…. 😀
Happy New Year to you all too!!!
Hello Leonny, Happy New Year to you, yr husband and your 2 kiddos! =D
Siti:
Hi hi … thanks for the wishes! 😀
And Pulau Ubin … never thought of that! Thanks for the idea!
Grace Koay:
You know we keep on hearing Lion Dance trucks passing by our place (their loud drums and cymbals etc), but we’ve only watched ONE lion dance performance so far … and no, no ‘live’ fire crackers here! So I let Anya and Vai watch youtube clips of fire crackers 🙂 … (sad, huh?)
We’re happy about the public holidays though!
(I can totally imagine how there’s not much celebration / decorations there in Australia … unless you’re in chinatown)
Hi Andy,
Happy Chinese New Year to your big happy family too!
Yeah … we should really check out the Istana next time! Thanks for the ideas.
May:
Thanks for the idea!:)
hi leonny, first of all happy chinese new year to you and family. Anya & Vai look so adorable in their chinese costume 😀
we too ran out of idea on where to go for the long CNY weekend. the mistake of no proper planning and we ended up spending a day at pulau ubin. if you dont mind the sun too much, you may like to go cycling or camping like us.
Here in Melbourne, life goes on as usual. Lachy goes to kinder. There is no public holiday! Oh how I wish we could do something Chinese New Year-sy!
1st day of CNY, we did go down to Chinatown to watch the dragon dance and fire crackers. We do exchange red packets (but there are so few kids around I only packed like 10 and still have leftovers… not that I’m complaining!!!)
So yeah… it’s a bit quiet over here too. 🙂
hi Leonny, happy CNY to you and family.
This is best time to visit museums (free), maybe pop by Istana? Or shopping at Orchard :p
cheers,
andy
How about renting some DVDs and watching them with friends?