Greetings for the coming Chinese New Year which is on the same day as Valentine's Day. :-D This year celebration is really a double happiness day and from where I come from Chinese New Year is celebrated on a big scale. My children are all back home and there is already lots of festivities joy in the air. GONG XI FA CAI everyone. :-D Chinese New Year ( photo / image / picture from KK Ng's Garden )
GONG XI FA CA to you too! May your celebration be a lively and loving one, enjoy yourselves. If you're doing fireworks, please think of me while you're shooting. I love fireworks. Is that your family on the card? What lovely people.
GONG XI FA CAI to you and your lovely family KK!! Enjoy the celebrations and do take photographs for us all to see won't you?
GONG XI FA CA to you and your family. Hope your celebration is a great one. Nice looking family, glad you are all together for the holiday.
Wishing you a very happy new year! My children have enjoyed a Chinese New Year week at school with themed meals and stories. GONG XI FA CAI to you and your family, with love.
KK - thank you for the well wishes and I wish the same for you and your lovely family. It sounds like a fun holiday is about to begin -- a double happiness day sounds like a very good thing. Gong xi fa cai to you too.
Thanks for the good wishes, really appreciate it :-D Just had our reunion dinner and I felt that now I am two size bigger Yes Droopy, that is my family photo on the card which we usually take once a year after Christmas. Fireworks is now not allowed by law as it is a fire hazard unlike the good old days when I was a kid ...bang!! bang!! & BOOM!!!! Thanks Eileen I am already enjoying the celebration especially the eating part Sorry I don't think my family will allow me to post the photos because we are all in our most comfortable home clothes because of the heat wave Thanks again for the well wishes and a big fat virtual "Ang Pow" (Red Packet)http://www.fengshuiweb.co.uk/advice/angpow.htmto all of you :-D
KK, almost 20 years ago we were invited to the wedding dinner/reception of a Vietnamese woman who worked with my husband along with 5 others who worked closely with her. We knew it was traditional to give money to the bridal couple to help with expenses, so the boss found some of the Red Envelopes at a local oriental market for us to use. That night at the dinner, the bride and groom were making their way around the room to each table for champagne wedding toasts and to receive the envelopes. We were table 26 out of 30 and were the only ones who had put our gifts in the Red Envelopes....all the other guests were from the Vietnamese community and they had all gone to Hallmark stores to get cards to put theirs in. So there were all these white envelopes and 6 red ones. I guess the others were trying to be Americanized, the couple didn't seem to be upset by the white envelopes but then after 25 toasts, and she had to drink the full glass each time to not insult the guests, the bride was 'feeling no pain'
