Tag: CNY

  • What To Do With Your Ang Pow Money #1: The Last Five Years

    My friend and collaborator Jasmine Teo’s directoral debut is also the first musical to be staged at a brand new venue – The Henderson Project – which is actually the office and rehearsal space for Dream Academy Productions, the company behind The Dim Sum Dollies and Kumar’s Amazing Race. It stars the amazingly talented duo…

  • Happy New Year!

    Here’s wishing everyone a great new year of the snake! May you have the opportunity to eat more! (Yes, “eat more snake” too).

  • Lib lung and prosper

    This evening we took a break from eating junk food and took Naomi’s visiting cousin out to a chili crab dinner at Long Beach Dempsey. Good thing we got there early, because a little after we got there, a queue formed with several dozen families, tired from visiting and being visited, looking to get a…

  • And on the second day, every dog was born

    The second day of the New Year is when married daughters return to their birth family’s home and spend time there. We learned of this tradition only after we got married, because previously, both Naomi’s and my family were always pretty sketchy and inconsistent with customs. We still can’t remember for sure how many oranges…

  • Chinese New Year fashion challenge

    I think it was my brother who said to me one Chinese New Year: “Why do people bother to wear dress shoes with their New Year clothes? All you do is dress up, go visiting, and take off your footwear when you go inside someone’s house. Why bother?” So I challenge you to wear slippers…