Tag: CNY

  • Singapore’s more like China than China

    It’s been as busy as we’ve expected this Chinese New Year, and with Kai nursing a new cold (how many do babies get in their first year?), we were expecting even less sleep than usual, and we were right. That’s not to say we haven’t been enjoying time with our families and relatives jetting in…

  • Our Ang Pow Collector is ready. Is yours?

    Kai, Naomi and me wish everyone a New Year of peace, joy and happiness. To help yourself along the way, don’t drink and drive, don’t overeat, and don’t gamble away your Ang Pows at the 500 tables open tomorrow at the RWS casino.

  • The music they play in hell

    We had to go out to Paragon today because Kai had to see the doctor to get some medication for his cold. We’re all a bit under the weather, but we managed to soldier on because Paragon’s common areas didn’t play that infernal racket known as Chinese New Year music. The individual shops and the…

  • Have we lo’d enough hei yet?

    We’ve lo hei’d three times this Chinese New Year, which isn’t a lot, but there’s only so much raw fish and crackers you can manage. Especially when there are pregnant women in the family. Still it’s great to be able to make a mess at the dinner table and say we’re conforming with tradition even…

  • Busy busy busy

    No, I’m not on blogging hiatus or anything like that. I thought I’d better blog a bit so that I’ll meet whatever blogging criteria put up by the Association of Singapore Bloggers or whatever it is they’re called. Because I might want to join up before they implode. It’s just that it’s been an unbelievably…