Chinese New Year is all about visiting family and friends, eating and drinking at gatherings and most of the time, it also means having late nights.
How was your Chinese New Year? I bet it was a fruitful one for us all who celebrate Chinese New Year. For many of us, Chinese New Year is also about bonding with our family over food.
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Chinese New Year 2014 农历新年 | Chinese New Year Day 2 初二 featuring CNY ootd
祝大家马年快乐！马上有钱，马上有对象，马上放假，马上有车。
Every year, we gather at Grandpa's place on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year before noon all the way till night falls. This year is no exception.
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Chinese New Year 2014 农历新年 | Chinese New Year Day 1 初一 : Outback Steakhouse review and River Hongbao 春到河畔
Chinese New Year Day 1 (初一)
House visiting 拜年
Majority of the Chinese families still keep themselves busy with house visits on the first day of Chinese New Year but some have opted to gather at one house for convenience sake.
No sweeping or cleaning should be done at home as it is equaivalent to blessings and luck being swept away.
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Chinese New Year 2014 农历新年 | CNY Outfit Shopping and Chinese New Year Eve Reunion Dinner 除夕团圆饭
Chinese New Year (CNY) is also commonly referred to as Lunar New Year. In Mandarin, it is referred as 过年 Guo Nian which translates loosely as 'to pass the year' or 春节 Spring Festival.
While there's 12 days of Christmas, there are 15 days of Chinese New Year, though only the 1st 2 days are widely celebrated and acknowledged as public holidays.
新年快乐, 恭喜发财! Wishing all of you a very Happy Chinese New Year, may all good things come your way this horse year.
While we embrace the New Year, there's no doubt a fair bit of preparations to be done prior to the festival such as spring cleaning, CNY goodies shopping, CNY outfit shopping just to name a few.
Before Chinese New Year each year, most Chinese in Singapore flock to Chinatown, making Chinatown at its busiest!
Follow me as I take you on a virtual tour of Chinatown for a walkthrough of the shops in Chinatown as well as Chinatown Festive Street Bazaar while we explore the various types of Chinese New Year goodies available for sale and the must-buys for Chinese New Year.
Patricia &SweetestSins hereby wish all readers a very Happy Chinese New Year. May the new year be a prosperous and smooth-sailing one for everyone!
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Patricia
Sorry for the lack of updates. Have been sick since the eve of Chinese New Year. &Its really awful to be down with sore throat &flu. Everything I eat nowadays is tasteless. ):
So this is what I have been up to lately. Went to Resort World last Friday. I finally got my stuffs from Victoria's Secret. I love their undies. Its so adorable! I remember I ordered before online but I got the wrong size &it ended up being too huge. Now, I dont have to worry because I can get them anytime from their outlet there! Anyway, I got two cutesy undies and a lipgloss. The lipgloss smells like vanilla which is my favorite flavor. (: I shall do a review on it soon.
Anyway, I was really really really disappointed firstly, the store aint as huge as I imagined and they didnt carry a huge variety, neither do they carry a huge assortment. Everything is pretty limited and so is my choice. I would really appreciate if they bring in more stuffs say fragrance sets and bras!
More pictures below. You would have probably seen these if you had check out my photos in Facebook. For more pictures, just go to my Facebook.
Hard Rock Hotel
I love the canvas prints they have in there!
A magnificent view
Universal Studios
And.. Chinese New Year which consists of good food and company, lots of red packets and fun!
Dont ask me why do our faces look so huge because.. Elvin is a huge fan of taking big face photos.
Siling &Me
Gosh, check out those eyebags. Its scary. No makeup, no wonder!!
Ebony &Me
Awesome-ness!
Sashimi, Abalone with kimchi, tempura prawns, roasted pork, sotong ball, scallop and Korean hot pot.
Other food not featured includes Korean cabbage egg soup and sushi etc.
So I had my finals and its finally over. But, I am experiencing mixed feelings. Why? Because this is a transition - from school to work. Not to mention uni applications which I highly doubt I would ever get into. But nevertheless, everyone says just try. I mean.. I dont like to deceive myself because I know my GPA is not there yet. &I know evenutally I would be wasting all the application fees. Well well well.. &Speaking of jobs, I have an offer to be an assistant merchandiser for a luxury watch retailer but the salary is very meagre. Its the experience that I will gain. Arghs. &The worst thing is I have to make my decision by tmr. Am weighing the opportunity cost. Meagre pay = Experience + Job title, Good pay = none of those mentioned earlier.
I havent gotten my CNY clothes yet. &I seriously doubt I can get it on time. But thats okay because I have a few dresses which I have not worn as of yet.
I wanted to get a concealer because my Lancome one which comes in a pen form cant pump anymore out and I was like contemplating between either Bobbi Brown or other alternatives. But since gf was trying out MAC foundation shades at Sephora Ion Orchard, I checked out the concealers &guess what? I walked away with a concealer and a brush cleaner. I had wanted to get the brush cleaner quite sometime ago after reading good reviews of it online. I was so tempted to get the MAC 224 brush &I even decided to go ahead with the purchase because the make up artist told me that I could use it both as a concealer brush &for blending the crease even though its priced hefty at 53bucks. I was sold when I heard that. But but.. to my disappointment, they run out of stock!!! I was so so sad. Then I thought, maybe I just not fated to get it. Then we pass by Tangs where gf wanted to try the foundation shades again, &I thought why not just try my luck and ask if they have it. Guess what? They had it! Gosh, I was so happy. The queue for payment was so long and I browsed and pick up the kohl pencil sharpener too. Got that because I had problem when using my Bodyshop sharpener to sharpen my MAC kohl eye pencil. As in the kohl would be out of shape and its not sharp enough. Does anyone experience this as well?
See? That's why people say, a girl walks into the store with the intention of getting one item but leaves the store with more than what she initially planned. Are you guilty of that girls?
Now that I think back, even though I finished building my brush collection but now I want professional brushes like MAC. But they are really expensive. Oh, actually I could have gotten my cousin or friends whom are studying overseas to get MAC brushes for me but well, that doesnt provide me with instant gratification and in-store experience! Haha. Too much of studying.
Anyway, here's my haul from MAC. &It just burnt a big hole in my pocket. The cosmetic industry is really good at making girls broke.
MAC brush cleaner, concealer, 224 brush &eye pencil sharpener
Happy 3 Friends!
My poly life would not be complete without you two!
And.. pineapple tarts which Mommy dearest made for Chinese New Year! (:
Check out the four leaf clover one. Its done by yours truly!!
