The Celebration Begins....

It's that time of the year again....Chinese New Year! Lots of things to do...make clothes, buy shoes, get ready to go back to Singapore...

CNY is also celebrated in Vietnam as the Chinese population in Vietnam is quite substantial. You can see all the flowers popping up everywhere, artists appearing on the streets waiting to write the 'chun lian' for customers, fortune tellers setting up stalls waiting to tell your fortune and of course, all the shops and stores putting up the red decorations.

But dont' try to go out unnecessarily as the roads are jammed packed with people going around buying their wares. And in the night, it gets worse as they are out to admire the flower exhibition in the city area....I didn't even dare to step out of the car for fear that I might be runned over by a motorbike!

My aunties were also in the full swing of things....buying fruits, sweets, hanging little dangly red lanterns and gold ingots and spring cleaning the whole house. But one thing really kind of took over the whole house...FLOWERS! They were everywhere!

There were the crysanthemums, cherry blossoms, pussy willows, those red flowers that is a must have in every household, kum quats and the special dragon fruit plant! Yup.... the dragon fruit plant. Am sure you have probably seen the fruit in the supermarkets but have you seen the plant? It's like a cactus that can grow quite huge, but here they've kept them small so that you can bring it home...

With all the festivities in the air, how can we not feel the atmosphere and get into the mood?! I can't wait to get back to Singapore to gamble, receive the ang pows and most importantly eat all the new year goodies!! hehe...

Here's wishing everyone a Happy & Prosperous Chinese New Year!