Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the year of rat.

Happy Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai!

May this lunar new year brings to you great health, good luck and abundance of happiness and may you enjoy success in all areas!

It’s time to get back with the family together and celebrate the biggest and most important Chinese festival. Have an awesome reunion dinner by putting aside your mobile phone and have some quality chats with your family members. Greet the elders and everyone else. Wear bright coloured shirt and embark on trips to visit relatives whom we most probably have not seen for a long time.

Spread joy by giving or receiving angpows (you are single, you receive…you are married, you give). Have fun by lighting up firecrackers or fireworks outside, or gather around for a light gambling in the house to check out how good is luck this year. Eat variety of delicious CNY cookies and biscuits and only worry about losing the fats after the festival. Be entertained by watching some light-hearted lunar new year movies.

In general, have fun and enjoy the festival with your loved ones! As per my family’s tradition, we will be usually heading out to oversea for a vacation during every Chinese New Year holiday. I’m now in Egypt for the trip along with my parents and I will be posting the highlights of the trip once I return on 30th January 2020.

(Images in this post are from various online sources)