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Today, 21 Feb 2008 is the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year / Chinese New Year 2008. It’s time to celebrate Chap Goh Meh or YunXiaoJie (元宵节). This day marks the end of the Chinese New Year celebration. At the same time, it is also Chinese Valentine’s Day for Chinese communities. [...]

Sunday night yesterday marked the end of the Chinese New Year holidays. It’s the wonderful moment of the year for the Chinese people. Back to work today. However, it seems, we’re just not in the mood to work…

Certainly, we don’t want to work today, do you?

Here comes the Chinese New Year 2008, the Year of the Rat which is also known by its former name of Wu Zhi. If you want to call it Mickey Mouse Year also no problem! Bye bye to the year of the Pig (boar) 2007. Time for new hopes, new wishes…

Happy Chinese [...]

福 “Fu”, pronounced as “Foo” is certainly a lucky word for Chinese. It means fortune, luck, blessings and happiness. The tradition of pasting the character “Fu” on walls, doors and doorposts especially during Chinese New Year has existed among Chinese for such a long time. Chinese like to paste the “Fu” character [...]

Friend Talk:
KingKong: Got your bonus?
Monkey: Yup! 1 month nia! You?
KingKong: No much, 4 months only!
Monkey: … (Speechless)
Chinese New Year is around the corner. Chinese New Year for me is nothing more than cleaning and decorating the house, buying new clothes, prepare food, sending hamsters hampers to relatives and KNS boss….

This year I felt [...]