For Chinese New Year this year, we did something different. We visited my mum-in-law’s side of the family in California, which was equal parts thrilling (because I’d never been) and terrifying (because I have an almost two-year-old).
There’s nothing like a 29-hour journey, including transit time and travel time to and from the airports, to [...]
Our Chinese New Year reunion dinner was exceptionally pretty this year. Y and I have never been big on the whole visiting shebang, and luckily for us, neither are our families. Here’s wishing you a wonderful Chinese New Year break, one that turns out just the way you hope for it to, and an [...]
Chinese New Year has never been a big deal for me. When I was younger, I never appreciated the get-together opportunity this festival afforded, simply because I was too young to appreciate re-connecting with long-lost cousins and aunties and uncles that I actually cared about. Every year for 23 years, I joined the season [...]
Already running super-late for a media preview of CJ7, I brisk walk into GSC Mid Valley, and stop short when a rat scampers across the lobby. Scampers – I like that word. It’s a good thing I’m not afraid of rodents, but everyone else around me is. As the women scream and dart into faraway [...]
For the first time in 23 years, I am spending Chinese New Year in KL. I’ll be honest, my sisters and I haven’t been enjoying our yearly CNY pilgrimage to Penang in recent years for a variety of reasons which I shall not deign to disclose, and to say that they are most envious [...]
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