Sentosa Flower Show 2012 - Carps Decorations

Dragon Gate created from real flowers with the carps seem trying to leap over the gate to a bountiful Dragon Year.

Three playful kids



Most of the flowers used seem to be spray carnations.

Pink Saturday - Awakening of the dragon

This Chinese New Year being the Year of the water dragon. Looked like this pink dragon having fun in the pool.


Dragon made from several hundreds or thousands of flowers, looked like a painting.

Not related to the above two people, they looked like having fun pretending to paint the eyes of the dragon to wake it up.

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Skywatch Friday - Year of the Dragon

Visited the annual Sentosa Flower Show and this being the Year of the Dragon, we could see many dragons decorations on the island. They were all made from many flowers. But I missed the 12 animal zodiacs that were there every year. This year they were all absent except for the dragons.








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Chinese New Year Lunch and Dinner with my entire family

Having lunch with my siblings and our family at my brother's house. Home cooked food is the best. :)

Chinese New Year is to get together and also having big feast together.

Dinner at Paradise Inn and the main course must be the Yusheng Dish. Yusheng is like a raw salad consisting of shreds of vegetables and with raw fish slices and adding some crushed nuts, crackers, etc

The tossing of yusheng is a must and the higher you toss the better your wishes will come true. Everyone will chat all the phrases of good luck and wishes.

Chinese New Year 2012 - Ang Pow (Red Packets)

Ang Pow or Hong Bao or Red Packets are a must during Chinese New Year. It is a gift of money placed inside the angpow given by married couples to those not married and also to elders. This being the Year of Dragon, so we can see many dragons pictures on the ang pow.

I saw these cute and beautiful ang pows in Guangzhou during my recent visit there. They were so cheap but gotta buy in bulks. 10 packets (each packets got 6 pieces inside) costs S$2 , yes S$2 for 10 packets - really cheap. Did not buy a lot cause can only use during Year of the dragon hahaha.


Most of the angpows I got free from banks. The above are from DBS Bank. Managed to get only 2 packets - sigh. They looked so beautiful.

Need different ang pows cause different ang pows for different amount of gift of money inside the angpows hahaha.

The closer your relation with the giver the amount will be bigger. We used to say the amount is not important but the receiver truly wishes for bigger amount so they can use it to buy the things they normally wont be able to afford to buy hahaha. When I was a child, going to the movies was a treat only possible during Chinese New Year when I received ang pows. :)

Like the picture on POSB's ang pow, shows family of three generation having steamboat reunion dinner, that's what I am going to have this Sunday for our reunion dinner.

Bought this from Guangzhou too, this angpow is used only for weddings as gifts to the wedding couple or their families. The word double happiness was flanked by the dragon and phoenix.

You can read the origin of the word double happiness from here.

Did not get much although it was super cheap at only CNY1.50 (about S$0.30) for 6 pcs of wedding red packets.