Tag: Chinese New Year
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A Few Photos from Chinese New Year 2016
Yesterday, on the eve of Chinese New Year, I took off on my motorbike and encircled historical Georgetown in Penang to see how everyone was decorating for the year. Here are a few of my photos. (above) At the esplanade, a Chinese New Year display which will be the backdrop for a Feb 13 celebration.…
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Happy Chinese New Year!
It’s that time again. Penang’s Chinese community is geared up for the long night, then days, then weeks of celebration! The lanterns are up. Here are some at a local mall: What are some of the other characteristics? Lion Dances. Random appearances by Confucian looking characters, handing out the ubiquitous red “ang pao” – envelopes…
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Shade: Are you offering it?
A couple weeks back, we were walking to a Chinese New Year feast at the house of some friends, and my wife and I found ourselves skipping from shade patch to shade patch to escape the blazing sun. It was one of those stifling days where your sweat can have sweat of its own even…
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Happy Vietnamese New Year (and a reminder of Tet ’68)
Chuc mung nam moi! Happy ‘Tet’ everyone. January 31 marks the most important holiday of the year for the Vietnamese. Yes, yes. It’s the same as Chinese New Year, but no self-respecting person from Vietnam who speaks Vietnamese (like myself) would ever refer to it using the name of their northern neighbor. It’s ‘Tet’! For…
Author Mark W Sasse 