Lifestyle & Leisure
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All the red in the new year
Usually, my graphic design sister, Creeart will do the decorations in the house for Chinese New Year. She normally comes out with some Cartoon character hand drawn, of the animal of the year, Rats for this year. However, since she’s in confinement, I had to do some kind of deco for the house. I’m not really creative in drawing fine arts and drawing from scratch, so all I did was download some cute Rats from Deviantart and print them. My eldest sister also bought those generic red and gold house deco from the shops. So I just simply stick them around the living room, with some red packets and hanging…
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Reunion dinner, go back if you can
Talking about the reunion dinner reminds me of that advert of the orphaned boy forced to draw about his reunion dinner in his Arts class. The boy couldn’t draw maybe because he doesn’t know what’s a reunion dinner. (Though I’m sure he could have from some form of imagination). Reunion dinners for the Chinese during Chinese New Year is probably the most important part of the whole celebration. It is a time when family members that may be living abroad and those that are near get together for a sit down dinner on Chinese New Year Eve. The dinner usually consists of the most lavish food, prawns, fish, meat, shark’s…
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Low Cost Terminal (LCCT)’s Food Court
When Airasia first moved to LCCT, us poor Airasia travellers had not much of a choice for food before flight as compared to the days of Burger King, KFC, McD and more in KLIA. All there is in LCCT is McD, Coffee Bean, some lousy Asian tiny foodcourt, and that was it. But that is all past with the new Food Court which opened in December of 2007. The new Food Court is just a few meters away from the main Terminal Building through a roofed walk way. Most people don’t mind walking the short distance for more variety of food. The interior of the place was really spacious, clean…
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Chinese Thanksgiving Festival
You have the western Thanksgiving celebrations a month before Christmas, and then you have the Chinese Thanksgiving Festival, better known as DongZhi Fest or Winter Solstice Festival. I grew up celebrating this day which falls on Dec 22. Photo from Flickr Typically, on this day, my mother would make the Tang Yuan, which is really just glutinous rice flour rolled into little balls. They are usually in white and pink colour. Then, she will boil sweetened soup, maybe add pandan leaves in it. We would all sit around a round table, according to our age we would scoop the Tang Yuan in the soup. Then we would be declared a…
