chinese new year coming. yay! angpows! lol. so money minded. anyways, we chinese new year coming by, my family had started cleaning up the house bit by bit every weekends. chenging the curtains, cleaning the fan, clearing those empty parts which is full of bee hives and dust bunnies. anyways, we oso boguth chinese new year decoration.

this year we have:

1) a bobbling head choi san ye (direct translation: Wealth God Grandad, real translation: God of Wealth)

2) a fake peach fruit tree

3) two mouse beads

4) a golden mouse piggy bank

5) chinese new year door greeting

6) tree ornaments

7) big golden peach

8) lanterns

9) fireworks (fake)

10) and more

ever since the year of the chicken (2005) my family started to decaorate our house with a bit of the animal zodiac influence. during the year of a chicken, my mom bought a golden rooster statue and placed it on a table far end facing directly at the main door, greeting the guest. also, we have two small chicken, perching on our door, giving another rooster greeting.

in the year of the dog (2006), we dun hav much decoration of the dog. however, me and my sis managed to find two of our snoopy dolls from some free gift by KFC long time ago (u guys might remember). its theme was around the world. fortunately for us, we have two snoopies representing china and taiwan. so both of the snoopies was wearing a traditional chinese clothings. we placed it on the television (ours is not flat screen btw)

last year which is the year of the pig (2007) or more politely, year of the boar, my dad got us two golden pigs representing wealth and properity. the year of the pig had the most influence of them all thanks to my sis who is a BIG fan of piggies. we got a crystal pig which was a present from my cousin to my sis on her birthday. we placed it on the television. my sis also brought in 2 pairs (and i meant as in 2 pigs 2 pigs) of piggy couples and placed it onto the decoration table. lastly, a giant soft doll pig placed on the couch as a pillow. all togther we have 8 pigs in the house.

this year, we have a golden mouse piggy bank (i cant call it mousy bank right, it sounded odd) and two handmade mice made of beads.

gong xi fa chai or i rather prefer to say gong hei fat choi (is in cantonese). i now chinese new year is a little early. but who cares. nothing to post. :)