CNY greetings 2024

At long last, today is Chinese New Year. It's the Year of the Wood Dragon, and that's the reason why festive greetings and decorations are sporting the dragon as the main motif. As usual, we have our dear daughter and son back with us for a few precious days. We're all so tired after a final day of cleaning, cooking and feasting at the reunion dinner yesterday. We tend to alternate between a regular dinner and a steamboat annually. This year, it's a steamboat dinner but a roast chicken still features prominently in the menu.

Somehow, there seemed to be lots more for us to do last night because after dinner was over and the final cleaning was completed, I overshot the time to prepare ourselves for the late night worship to welcome in the New Year. And as a result, we actually began and ended the worship session a bit later than usual, after the whole neighbourhood had completed their worship and lighting off their fire crackers. We also managed a short trip to the Tua Pek Kong temple down the road. Not too many people still there at about 1.30am in the morning. As for today, there won't be many visitations to do except to my mother-in-law in Bandar Tasek Mutiara in Province Wellesley South. But that's in the afternoon. For the midday, we shall be going to the Nandaka Vihara for a Chinese New Year lunch dana. Other than these, it's basically lazing around the house for the rest of our time....