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㊗️ 新年快乐，万事如意！㊗️

Happy Chinese New Year to my fellow Chinese across the world!

Happy Lunar New Year to all!

An introduction to my culture I suppose, this is called Lion Dance.

The Chinese lion dance is based on the legend of the Nian:

Once every year at the beginning of Chinese New Year, the beast Nian, comes out of hiding to feed, but during winter since food is sparse he would go to the village. He would eat the crops and sometimes the villagers, mostly children.

Sick of the attacks, the villagers plotted how to make the Nian leave them in peace. They played against its weaknesses- loud noises, fire, and the color red. The day before the beast was due to arrive, the villagers decorated their houses in red, clashed their pots and pans together noisily, and put up firecrackers to intimidate Nian. It worked, leaving Nian running back to its cave dwelling with its tail between its legs.

This began the traditions of firecrackers, red lanterns, and red robes found in many Lion Dance portrayals.

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Happee year of the good boye !! Goodbye chichen .

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This year's Chinese Lunar New Year red packets/money packets/money envelopes/ang pau/ang pow/hong pau designs!

Lots of classy designs this year and a couple of modern ones.

The Mercedes Benz envelope was the best but sadly mother marred it by writing my name in pen On The Front of all places (totoro is covering my brickspace name) which is such a pity because it's shaped like traditional Chinese doors! The worst thing is, I realised there's an inner sleeve that you could flip around and use for newlyweds but mother ruined the front!!! So I can't reuse it!!!! *yells*

I may have to convert it into a bookmark or something, or if a newlyweds are trying to keep track who gave them how much.

The orange will have to be thrown out; there's dramatically obvious staple holes.

@ravenreyamidala

#my photos #cny 2018 #ang pau #red packets #ang pow

Day at the temple part 2

1) Some of the very many wooden ancestral tablets; my family’s to the other side

2) Joss stick bitches!

3) Burning the paper offerings; dad’s poking it with a piece of iron rod to make sure they get burned up properly

#my photos #cny 2018 #temple day

I made a dozen puppies using a pack of proper origami paper... My fingers are tired

#cny 2018 #origami #year of the dog

Baked crispy fish fillet bundles

Thu 2019/01/17

Baked crispy seaweed fish bundle

#CNY 2018 #Seaweed Fish Fillet Bundle

This one edit took about 2+ hours to create (not including the time I took to color grade the photo itself)? And this is why I hardly ever post. Perfectionism at its worst. 😅On the upside, Procreate is a lot of fun! I am super enjoying my iPad Pro right now!

Original Post on Instagram.

Phew 😊😪😐🙃😩😅😋😌😬

So today was kinda a rollercoaster ride, went from feeling super happy to anxiety to happy and hyper, and now, normal.

Started off great since the class group became active again, well I say great not because I joined in to talk or whatever, but I guess that kinda triggered a couple friends to text. Got to talk to so many old close friends again, and it was so nice. Felt like I was transported back to my college days :’) Of course, lots of a couple moments were relived back in the chat, same with my friends.

Things then took a little turn for the worse, anxiety kicked in. Maybe it was seeing him talk in the group again. Not sure why I’m still getting so triggered because I really thought I had moved on. Ah well, but I’m being in denial, aren’t I? I’ll never truly move on.

Well, whatever, I pushed through it. I focused on other things, and that helped me push myself to go back to learning German, which I had been planning to do at the start of the month but didn’t get to since I was so busy with spring cleaning. Was pretty fun since I could still remember most of the meanings and pronunciations (really proud of me too). A great refresher, but hopefully I can start learning something new again tomorrow.

Also decided to get back into my job hunt, managed to shortlist a couple but haven’t got to send them out. Thinking about it, I do feel a little anxious about it, going back for interviews and stuff, but I’ve also been reminding myself of my other goals, so finding a job ASAP would be the best for me. So things started to feel a bit better, and started feeling this tingling happiness again, and started talking a little more to my friends too. My good friend even suggested she wanted to plan a class reunion, which is something I’ve wanted forever but I don’t really show it I suppose (only my close friends know how much I truly miss everyone, probably), so god bless her. Just replied to the group and archived it just in case of another anxiety attack, so ehhhh.

ANYWHO, I’ve decided to just do my CNY insta post after the 15th day of CNY since there’s gonna be visiting on Sat and probably on the last day too. Kinda upset that the visiting has clashed with my plans to meet my uni friend (whom I hadn’t seen in AGES), but I guess we could meet the week later. Well, at least more red packets for me too, aye?

Well, so cheers to this crazy emotional (or not that emotional) day!