Prosperity, Fu

Chinese New Year (CNY) or the Lunar New Year is the most celebrated Chinese festival. In the course of history it has been known by other names such as First Morning of the Year (Yuan Dan) or Spring Festival (Chun Jie). The arrival of new year is considered an important event as it signifies the beginning of the lunar calendar. Therefore, Chinese pays lots of attention to this event.

The word Prosperity (Fu) is the most favourable word use during CNY. Prosperity does not mean loaded with cash alone. In the chinese culture, prosperity encompasses reunion with family, having lots of children, with enough food to eat, having shelter to seek comfort and a place to call home, with good health and positive mind, having friends to share, and most importantly, having a good life. Thus, Fu is usually seen in many CNY decorations.

Here are some of the Fu decoration I came across, some of which are from my house.

Dad brought this Fu from the night market.

These 2 Fu are for doors

Fu from Beijing, China

This Fu was brought from Beijing. It is an imprint art, a kind of art from China. The original character was written by the Late Emperor Qian Loong of the Qing Dynasty.

My big brother brought this Fu from Fusan, China

Ngan Yin Peanut, Pasir Pinji Market

This Fu decoration takes the form of a kid wishing someone. It was actually peanut packing for Ngan Yin Peanut.

Chinese New Year snacks

Chinese New Year is always the time to savour all sorts of delicacies, raging from cookies to drinks. As usual, mum has never failed to bake cookies for this occasion. Early in the morning, she traveled from Menglembu to Pasir Putih, heading to my small Aunt's house to begin her baking routine with my aunt, sort of join venture between Wong and Chan Family, hahaha....

And so, here are some of her creation to usher the Tiger.

Some of mum's creations

Almond London

Fried crab filament (left) & fried seaweed with popiah role (right)

From the left: chocolate cornflakes, pineapple tart, peanut cookie

I was not in Ipoh so didn't help much (makan of course, haha, I don't know how to bake). Anyway, I did some in KL just in time to celebrate the arrival of Spring, hehe... And what i did? haha... peanut cookies, my favourite ^^

Green pea cookie (left) & peanut cookie (right)

Chinese New Year Gift

Chinese New Year Is just around the corner. Approximately 10 days from now, we will be ushering the new lunar year, welcoming the prosperous Tiger to 2010.



Already there are many suppliers sending boxes of mandarin oranges to our lab. This year, the amount of oranges are lesser compared with the previous years. This must be another exercise of cutting cost, saving budget to reduce company's expenditure.




Today, we received very special and cute gifts from one company. While other companies only send the mandarin oranges as usual, this company took the trouble of sending us something different from the others. In fact last year. we also received a cute gift from them during CNY.

Introducing.... CNY Special Package Gift.

Tiger Twins

This gift package comes with 3 items:
1. Pair of soft Tiger Doll
2. Fortune Cookies
3. Mandarin oranges

I took the Yellow Tiger and displayed it in my cubicle, wakaka.. Looks cute. Hope it can bring me luck this year, haha...



But I think it looks more like a cat then a tiger, haha...