Chinese New Year Family Reunion Luncheon
Chinese New Year Family Reunion Luncheon
Chinese New Year Family Reunion Luncheon
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Chinese New Year Family Reunion Luncheon Leave a comment
Dinner for me by former Pharma Staff of Diethelm Malaysia Sdn Bhd of Penang Branch Leave a comment
Dinner for me by former Pharma Staff of Diethelm Malaysia Sdn Bhd of Penang Branch
I am indeed moved and gratified by this surprised dinner by my former Pharmaceutical Division staff of Diethelm Malaysia Sdn Bhd of Penang Branch. According to them, I was a good “boss” to all of them during my tenure as Area Manager to them as subordinates.
Thank you, my fellow colleagues.
SP Lim
Dinner for me by former Pharma Staff of Diethelm Malaysia Sdn Bhd of Penang Branch
Dinner for me by former Pharma Staff of Diethelm Malaysia Sdn Bhd of Penang Branch
Dinner for me by former Pharma Staff of Diethelm Malaysia Sdn Bhd of Penang Branch
Dinner for me by former Pharma Staff of Diethelm Malaysia Sdn Bhd of Penang Branch
Dinner for me by former Pharma Staff of Diethelm Malaysia Sdn Bhd of Penang Branch
Dinner for me by former Pharma Staff of Diethelm Malaysia Sdn Bhd of Penang Branch
Dinner for me by former Pharma Staff of Diethelm Malaysia Sdn Bhd of Penang Branch
Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner 2018 7 comments
Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner 2018
Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival (simplified Chinese: 春节; traditional Chinese: 春節; pinyin: Chūn Jié) in modern China, and one of the Lunar New Years in Asia, is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Celebrations traditionally run from the evening preceding the first day, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first calendar month. The first day of the New Year falls on the new moon between the 21st of January and 20th of February. In 2018, the first day of the Lunar New Year was on Friday, 16 February, initiating the year of the Dog.
It is one of the world’s most prominent and celebrated festivals, with the largest annual mass human migration in the world. It is a major holiday in Greater China and has had strong influence on the lunar new year celebrations of its geographic neighbours, including Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mauritius, Australia, and the Philippines.
The New Year festival is centuries old and associated with several myths and customs. Traditionally, the festival was a time to honour deities as well as ancestors.[8] Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Lunar New Year vary widely. Often, the evening preceding Lunar New Year’s Day is an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly clean the house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for incoming good luck. Windows and doors are decorated with red colour paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of “good fortune” or “happiness”, “wealth”, and “longevity”. Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes. In about one third of the Mainland population, or 500 million Northerners, dumplings (especially those of vegetarian fillings) feature prominently in the meals celebrating the festival.
Extracted from Wikipedia.
Chinese New Year Offerings
Chinese New Year Offerings of Fruits
New Year’s Eve
The biggest event of any Chinese New Year’s Eve is the annual reunion dinner. Dishes consisting of special meats are served at the tables, as a main course for the dinner and offering for the New Year. This meal is comparable to Thanksgiving dinner in the U.S. and remotely similar to Christmas dinner in other countries with a high percentage of Christians.
In northern China, it is customary to make dumplings (jiaozi) after dinner to eat around midnight. Dumplings symbolize wealth because their shape resembles a Chinese sycee. In contrast, in the South, it is customary to make a glutinous new year cake (niangao) and send pieces of it as gifts to relatives and friends in the coming days. Niángāo [Pinyin] literally means “new year cake” with a homophonous meaning of “increasingly prosperous year in year out”.[34]
After dinner, some families go to local temples hours before the new year begins to pray for a prosperous new year by lighting the first incense of the year; however in modern practice, many households hold parties and even hold a countdown to the new year. Traditionally, firecrackers were lit to scare away evil spirits with the household doors sealed, not to be reopened until the new morning in a ritual called “opening the door of fortune” (simplified Chinese: 开财门; traditional Chinese: 開財門; pinyin: kāicáimén).[35]
Beginning in 1982, the CCTV New Year’s Gala is broadcast in China four hours before the start of the New Year and lasts until the succeeding early morning. A tradition of going to bed late on New Year’s Eve, or even keeping awake the whole night and morning, known as shousui (守岁), is still practised as it is thought to add on to one’s parents’ longevity.
From Wikipedia
Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner 2018
Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner 2018
Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner 2018
Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner 2018
Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner 2018
| Gregorian | Date | Animal | Day of the week | Gregorian | Date | Animal | Day of the week | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 24 Jan | Snake | Wednesday | 2026 | 17 Feb | Horse | Tuesday | |
| 2002 | 12 Feb | Horse | Tuesday | 2027 | 6 Feb | Goat | Saturday | |
| 2003 | 1 Feb | Goat | Saturday | 2028 | 26 Jan | Monkey | Wednesday | |
| 2004 | 22 Jan | Monkey | Thursday | 2029 | 13 Feb | Rooster | Tuesday | |
| 2005 | 9 Feb | Rooster | Wednesday | 2030 | 3 Feb | Dog | Sunday | |
| 2006 | 29 Jan | Dog | Sunday | 2031 | 23 Jan | Pig | Thursday | |
| 2007 | 18 Feb | Pig | Sunday | 2032 | 11 Feb | Rat | Wednesday | |
| 2008 | 7 Feb | Rat | Thursday | 2033 | 31 Jan | Ox | Monday | |
| 2009 | 26 Jan | Ox | Monday | 2034 | 19 Feb | Tiger | Sunday | |
| 2010 | 14 Feb | Tiger | Sunday | 2035 | 8 Feb | Rabbit | Thursday | |
| 2011 | 3 Feb | Rabbit | Thursday | 2036 | 28 Jan | Dragon | Monday | |
| 2012 | 23 Jan | Dragon | Monday | 2037 | 15 Feb | Snake | Sunday | |
| 2013 | 10 Feb | Snake | Sunday | 2038 | 4 Feb | Horse | Thursday | |
| 2014 | 31 Jan | Horse | Friday | 2039 | 24 Jan | Goat | Monday | |
| 2015 | 19 Feb | Goat | Thursday | 2040 | 12 Feb | Monkey | Sunday | |
| 2016 | 8 Feb | Monkey | Monday | 2041 | 1 Feb | Rooster | Friday | |
| 2017 | 28 Jan | Rooster | Saturday | 2042 | 22 Jan | Dog | Wednesday | |
| 2018 | 16 Feb | Dog | Friday | 2043 | 10 Feb | Pig | Tuesday | |
| 2019 | 5 Feb | Pig | Tuesday | 2044 | 30 Jan | Rat | Saturday | |
| 2020 | 25 Jan | Rat | Saturday | 2045 | 17 Feb | Ox | Friday | |
| 2021 | 12 Feb | Ox | Friday | 2046 | 6 Feb | Tiger | Tuesday | |
| 2022 | 1 Feb | Tiger | Tuesday | 2047 | 26 Jan | Rabbit | Saturday | |
| 2023 | 22 Jan | Rabbit | Sunday | 2048 | 14 Feb | Dragon | Friday | |
| 2024 | 10 Feb | Dragon | Saturday | 2049 | 2 Feb | Snake | Tuesday | |
| 2025 | 29 Jan | Snake | Wednesday | 2050 | 23 Jan | Horse | Sunday |
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 2 Leave a comment
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 2
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 2
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 2
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 2
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 2
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 2
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 2
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 1 Leave a comment
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 1
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 1
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 1
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 1
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 1
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 1
Grand Dinner of 2017 ~ 1
October Luncheon of Penang Class-mates Leave a comment
October Luncheon of Penang Class-mates
October Luncheon of Penang-based Class-mates of Penang Free School Class of 1964 – 1970 on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at Flamingo Hotel Cafe, Tg Bungah, Penang. Our Guest is Mr Wong Weng Choon (in white T-shirt) who now resides in Singapore. He was our school’s gymnast until he went to Japan on an educational scholarship in Kyoto University. He said the Japanese gymnasts were too good and practises without stopping so he gave up.
SP Lim
October Luncheon of Penang Class-mates 1964 – 1970 on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at Flamingo Hotel Cafe, Tg Bungah, Penang
October Luncheon of Penang Class-mates 1964 – 1970 on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at Flamingo Hotel Cafe, Tg Bungah, Penang
October Luncheon of Penang Class-mates 1964 – 1970 on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at Flamingo Hotel Cafe, Tg Bungah, Penang
October Luncheon of Penang Class-mates 1964 – 1970 on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at Flamingo Hotel Cafe, Tg Bungah, Penang
October Luncheon of Penang Class-mates 1964 – 1970 on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at Flamingo Hotel Cafe, Tg Bungah, Penang
October Luncheon of Penang Class-mates 1964 – 1970 on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at Flamingo Hotel Cafe, Tg Bungah, Penang
October Luncheon of Penang Class-mates 1964 – 1970 on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at Flamingo Hotel Cafe, Tg Bungah, Penang
October Luncheon of Penang Class-mates 1964 – 1970 on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at Flamingo Hotel Cafe, Tg Bungah, Penang
October Luncheon of Penang Class-mates 1964 – 1970 on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at Flamingo Hotel Cafe, Tg Bungah, Penang
October Luncheon of Penang Class-mates 1964 – 1970 on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at Flamingo Hotel Cafe, Tg Bungah, Penang
Celebrating Chinese New Year ~ Year of the Rooster 2017 Leave a comment
Celebrating Chinese New Year ~ Year of the Rooster 2017
Celebrating Chinese New Year ~ Year of the Rooster 2017
Celebrating Chinese New Year ~ Year of the Rooster 2017
Celebrating Chinese New Year ~ Year of the Rooster 2017
Celebrating Chinese New Year ~ Year of the Rooster 2017
Celebrating Chinese New Year ~ Year of the Rooster 2017. My God Son’s Family.
Courses of the Chinese New Year Grand Dinner Leave a comment
Courses of the Chinese New Year Grand Dinner
Courses of the Chinese New Year Grand Dinner
Courses of the Chinese New Year Grand Dinner
Courses of the Chinese New Year Grand Dinner
Courses of the Chinese New Year Grand Dinner
Courses of the Chinese New Year Grand Dinner
Courses of the Chinese New Year Grand Dinner
Courses of the Chinese New Year Grand Dinner
” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – Our Family Adventure in Myanmar or Burma ~ Night 1.16 Final 2 comments
” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – Our Family Adventure in Myanmar or Burma ~ Night 1.16 Final
” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – Our Family Adventure in Myanmar or Burma ~ Night 1.16
” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – Our Family Adventure in Myanmar or Burma ~ Night 1.16
” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – Our Family Adventure in Myanmar or Burma ~ Night 1.16
” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – Our Family Adventure in Myanmar or Burma ~ Night 1.16
” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – Our Family Adventure in Myanmar or Burma ~ Night 1.16
This series of photographs end the night of festivities and dining thrown in honour of my brother-in-law Dennis Tan who was born in Yangon, Myanmar.
SP Lim
” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – Our Family Adventure in Myanmar or Burma ~ Night 1.15 Leave a comment
” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – Our Family Adventure in Myanmar or Burma ~ Night 1.15
From Night 1.1 of November 30, 2016 till Night 1.16 December 8, 2016, I shall feature the ” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – a dinner cum social get-together thrown in honour of my brother-in-law Dennis Tan and sister Cindy Lim by his former classmates, friends and associates in Yangon, Myanmar at the Black Hat – a well-known wine bar and restaurant. My brother-in-law was born in Yangon and this trip is his second home-coming trip back to his home town. Tonight was definitely a night to remember – Saturday, 12 November, 2016.
SP Lim
” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – Our Family Adventure in Myanmar or Burma ~ Night 1.15. Comments by Cindy Lim on Facebook: ” A very beautiful painting using real gems & precious stones – A VERY PRECIOUS GIFT presented to us from all of Dennis Tan MEHS friends in Yangon ! Thank you very much EVERYONE – We will TREASURE it forever “
” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – Our Family Adventure in Myanmar or Burma ~ Night 1.15
” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – Our Family Adventure in Myanmar or Burma ~ Night 1.15
” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – Our Family Adventure in Myanmar or Burma ~ Night 2.15
” Night Out at the Black Hat ” – Our Family Adventure in Myanmar or Burma ~ Night 1.15
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