8th-9th Day of Chinese New Year (年初八-九)

On the 9th day of CNY , its the birthday of the Jade Emperor (天公) . Its an important day for the Hokkien peoples ! We did preparations for the offering to the Jade Emperor on the day before .

We did the offering on 12 a.m. (exactly 9th day ) . The offering include : sugar cane (the most important one) , fruits and also roasted pig . But this year , we didn't offer roasted pig because my uncle didn't order . So sad . 'Gold paper' (kim chua ) is also very important for the offering .

This day were celebrated very grand especially in Penang , because most of the people in Penang are Hokkien !

At excact 12 a.m. , the sound of fire crakers can be hear everywhere , and the sky will covered with beautiful fire works !

sugar cane ! XD

kim chua

the fruits for offering . They were decorate with red colour sticker .

the kim chua were arrange in a piramid shape before burning

the fire crakers was burned

camp fire ?? off corse not ! its the burning of kim chua !

thats our house !

After we burned the kim chua , our neightbour will 'perform' their fire works !

they're preparing for the fire works ...

here are some photo I took :

this one is cool ! XD

out of target ! XD

my brother was playing fire works

Thats it for the birthday of Jade Emperor . meow~~!

2nd Day of Chinese New Year (年初二)

On the second day of CNY , just like the fisrt day , woke up quite early and then went to my grandmother's house again . That day another relative come . I don't quite know who are they (never seen them I think ... ) . But as long as I can get Ang Pow , I will be happy ! XD

So after they went back , we had our meal .

My uncle invited the lion dancer to come and dance that day , and we were waiting for them to come .

We watched TV while waiting for the lion dancer to come . They were suppose to come at 1pm , but they didn't . Its almost 2 pm when they arrived .

The whole neighbourhood invited the same group of lion dancer (4 houses including us) . They danced at our neighbour's houses first , and our house was the last .

I went to the belcony to take some photo when they danced in my neighbour's house .

from far away ...

wah ... climb so high ...

in our neighbour's house

And then , finally its our house turn . Well , they rested for a while before dancing in our house . I can understand that it's tiring to dance in 3 houses continuously ! XD And so , its finally started ! Can hear the drum sound very loudly .

let's welcome them with fire crackers ! ^^

nice pose !

just went in the door !

my brother is taking the orange from the lion !

and then they went out ...

Thats all for the lion dance on second day of CNY ! meow~~!

First Day of Chinese New Year (年初一)

On 26 January , it was the first day of Chinese New Year . I woke up early (at least earlier than usual XD ) in the morning , clean myself up and put on new cloth ! Got my first 'Ang Pow' from my father . After that , my father drove us to my grandmother house . On the way there , there was not many car on the road (Batu Ferringhi) , not until we reached Air Itam , there was a huge traffic jam . It took us approximately an hour to reach our destination . Walked into my grandmother's house , and my uncles , aunts , cousins are all there . First off ! off corse is saying "Kiong Hi Huat Chai" to everyone , then take Ang Pow ! XD

First day of Chinese New Year must eat 'Mee Sua" (面线) . I had it as my breakfast . Woah ... at that time , i was very hungry already ... so ate quite a lot ...

We sit around the living room , watch TV and talking with each other .

At about 1 pm , after finished having our lunch at my grandmother's house , my father drove us to relative house (my mother's side) . Stayed there for the whole day and go back home at night .

And thats it for the first day of CNY . The end . meow~~!

here's some photo :

cute moo moo Ang Pow that i got from my aunt and cousin living in Singapore !

Ang Pows