Saturday, February 17, 2007

Happy Chinese New Year!

Yup, Chinese New Year is on 18 Feb (Sunday) this year and this is the year of the PIG! If you were born on 1947, 1957, 1971 or 1983, there's a good chance that you were born in the year of the pig, which is really not a bad thing, as the Chinese associate the pig with being happy and honest (straight forward).

Chinese New Year (CNY) is a huge thing in Singapore. You literally cannot get any of the Chinese race here to work on CNY eve and the 1st two days of CNY. Some local businesses will even take the entire week off as this is the only time of the year that they take a break.

In line with Chinese New Year festivities, R2 made this nice dragon for us in Art Class - a very handy decoration as it is traditional to put up some decorations on our front door, and I really don't like the rather "gaudy" red and gold commercial items. :) The poor boy has got the fever and the runs today - he may have to skip most of the Chinese New Year goodies (sweets & cookies) this year. In fact, we may not be able to do the usual visits to relatives tomorrow unless he gets much better very soon.

R1 made this slightly more sophisticated version (of the dragon) - we're keeping this one indoors. He has got a chesty cough, so may also be missing most of the goodies too this year.

With the kids being sick (and me still having that tiny bit of sorethroat and runny nose), this week has been a rest week. All I did was intervals in the hotel gym on Wed (4 X 1.6km run / .8km recovery), and aiming for some strength training tomorrow. Perhaps the silver lining is that next week (CNY week) could actually be a training week instead of the planned rest week, since we may not be doing too many visits and gatherings this year.


Well, we're off to our CNY eve Reunion Dinner at my parent's place. It's a bit like Thanksgiving, where the entire family comes together for dinner and grandpa/grandma whip up all the family's favourite dishes. A good time is usually had by all and I'm looking forward to it! :)


Until next time, train safe everyone and God Speed in the Year of the Pig!

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope everyone is healthy soon! It seems that everyone is sick all over the world right now. How strange!

By the way, I got a kick out of your tan line photo. :) That's hilarious! :)

Happy New Year! :)

Robin said...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Feel better everyone. (I am not a pig; I am a rooster! What do the Chinese associate the rooster with?????)

Rachel said...

Happy New Year! I bet it's amazing to celebrate it in Singapore.

Hope the kids feel better!

tryathlete said...

Apparently it's the year of the "Golden Pig". I've never heard of that before - have you?

I hope your throat feels better soon. Go easy on the "bah kwa".

Cliff said...

Oink..

Happy Chinese New Year..

The tan line....priceless.....i need one of those...

Unknown said...

Happy Chinese New Year. I love the artwork by R1 and R2. I hope they are feeling better.

Sixteen Chickens said...

Happy New Year!
My wish for you and your family is much good health in the New Year!

Deb said...

Hope your holiday was spent surrounded by the ones you love!

Unknown said...

Happy Chinese New Year!!

Iron Pol said...

R1's dragon is wonderful. R2's is very artistic and colorful.

As Pigs (Boars) have so many characteristics in common with triathletes, particularly Ironmen, I declared 2007 as "The Year of the Ironman."

Have a wonderful New Year celebration. Enjoy the time with your family, even if there are the health issues. Use the time to recover and hit the new year running.

Steven said...

Happy CNY, Kewl!

I hope you all had a wonderful time!

Dawn - Pink Chick Tris said...

Belated Happy New Year. Love the pink dragon.