UKM x JohorChingay (25/2/2019)

Well, this was the second time in my life to attend this event. 

The first time was at Taman Sri Sentosa (my house area there) when Na Tuk Kong's birthday

and the second time was at Chingay Parade, JB. 

The Chingay Parade is an annual street parade held in Malaysia and Singapore in celebration with the birthdays of the Chinese deities or the procession of the Goddess of Mercy (Guanyin) as part of the Chinese New Year festivities. The celebration is held annually by the Johor Bahru Old Chinese Temple on the 21st day of the first month of the Lunar New Year. It is joined by the five main clans in the state, which are Cantonese, Hainanese, Hakka, Hokkien, and Teochew. 

Terrence Ong (first row, from left, the fifth ones) who is the third year senior of UKM gave us the chance to attend this event by having collaboration with Johor Bahru Old Chinese Temple from one of the clans of this event which was Hokien. 

On 25/2, Terrence wanted us to gather at Panggung Seni before 9:30 a.m., all of the participants of this event were punctual. 3 buses and breakfast were provided. Around 12 p.m., the bus driver stopped us at R&R to have our lunch. We reachced our destination around 3:30 p.m. 

Attended the event with besties.

The person who in charged in the event leaded us to the old temples to give us a short briefing of the event and also distributed the shirt of Hokien clan (as shown in the picture above). 

Before the event had started, there was already full of people, very lively! 

We had a look around the temples and found it amazing and fantastic!

Outside the temples, other than people mountain people sea, there was a lot of food stalls along the street, so we had our tea time XD

The event officially started at 7 p.m. sharp. All of the participants must walk 8 km long to celebrate this event (Temple to JB city square then back to temple). On the way, there was a lot of world lion dance performances, dancing and singing performances, big head dolls and also firecrackers! <3

You may check it our through the videos below!

Fountain 

Lanterns

Dragon

Pheonix and Dragon

I didn't take many pictures and videos because it was too crowded.

This event ended around 1 a.m. The bus arrived at 1:30 a.m. This was the end of our day trip.

I found it fun and meaningful although it made me very tired hahahaha. 

 I hope I have the chance to attend this event next year! 

CNY Day 2, steamboat party! (Throwback)

Do you know who is the one who take pic for them?

On 6/2/2019, which was also day 2 of CNY, all relatives had plan beforehand to have steamboat at my grandma house. At the same time, they also secretly  plan to celebrate my cousin, Olivia's birthday which falls on 2/2/2019 to give her a surprising bleated birthday celebration! <3 

After finished preparing all ingredients for steamboat and buying birthday cake from Secret Recipe, we celebrated Olivia's birthday before our steamboat party kicked off! We sang her birthday song in a few languages, so it took quite long for her to make wishes and cut the cake. She got runny eyes and said thank you to us for celebrating her birthday although it already passed for a few days After the celebration session, our steamboat party finally get to kick off! On that day, I ate a lot of good foods and I felt VERY SATISFIED! Hahahaha XD. 

But I think... Olivia's more satisfied than all of us did, because she can get extra 'Angpau' for this CNY ;)

CNY 2019 (End=Start)

Yesterday was the last day of CNY as we known as Chap Goh Meh. 

Having lots of fun during this festive season in Malacca (My hometown is in Malacca). 

All relatives and cousins were coming back to my grandma's house to celebrate CNY as we can meet and bridging our relationship especially those who aren't working in Malaysia. 

This makes us getting harder to get together... However I still hope that we can meet each other frequently! Already start to miss you all!

It was also a very special CNY for my family and I. This is because was our first time to wear 'Cheongsam' and 'Samfu' together in our lifetime.   

To my parents and sister, thank you for giving me infinite love that can make me fearless to face any obstacles in life. 

THE END OF CNY 2019 IS MEAN TO THE START OF COUNTING DOWN CNY 2020