CNY 2008

Last day of Chinese New Year, fifteen days went by just like that.

After all these years away, am surprised to find that there is actually not much difference between the way I celebrated Chinese New Year overseas and here back home.

A reunion dinner, a visit to the in-laws, then it's back to the normal working life, with the occasional gathering of friends. That's it.

The two public holidays in Malaysia are nice, in UK everyone works as normal. The reunion dinner with family was a nice change, in UK we did it with friends. Festival music, festival biscuits and cakes, fireworks, lion dance, et cetera added to the new year mood, these were not common in Nottingham while I was there.

Gave out ang pow in Chinese New Year for the very first time, that's memorable.

None of my friends or colleagues visited me during Chinese New Year though.

Me sad.