2026 Beary Well

 

Hello 2026! Beary Happy New Year 🎊 🕛 

CNY month

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CNY Day 15

Bye bye CNY celebration. Till next year!

Ring for luck

CNY of the Sheep/Goat!

3 sheeps

Mountain Goat - Ibex?

Flowery Tree

Christmas Decorations in the Gardens

New Lane

Thank you to everyone who left CNY wishes as comments for my previous post. Still 5 days to go before CNY celebration officially ends so here's wishing everyone again a very happy Chinese New Year, may all of you gallop into the year of the horse with renewed vigour, good health, happiness and prosperity.

I did not go anywhere during CNY day 1 but on the day 4, I hitched a ride to Penang with my youngest brother who was returning to his home. The plan was to stay with him for one day, meet up with my friend, and return to KL on day 6 but the buses to KL were all full on day 6 so I had to stay for another day.

Just went to New Lane, Penang for hawker food one night for dinner, Queensbay mall for lunch on day 5 and KK Dry Bak Kut Teh restaurant for lunch on day 6. On Day 7 it was back to KL on Aeroline (RM60).
So do enjoy the next 5 days of CNY celebration before it ends!

New Lane, Penang

New Lane, Penang

Happy Chinese New Year!

Here's wishing everyone a very Happy and Prosperous CNY. Thank you to Claire and Wenn for sending me the cards below:

Card from Claire

Angpow packet from Wenn

Card and decorative item from Wenn

Season of Giving

To everyone who celebrates Christmas,

Have a blessed Christmas!

Thank you Wenn for the lovely Christmas card and gifts below:

A big thank you to Sharon for the lovely Christmas card below:

Hari Raya

Here's wishing all my friends who are celebrating Hari Raya:

Selamat Hari Raya 
Maaf Zahir dan Batin

And to everyone, Happy Holidays for the long weekend.

Lion dance

Six more days to go before we conclude the 15 days of CNY celebration. As both my spouse's and my hometown is KL and both of us live 10 mins away from my in-laws and my mother, we did not have to travel far during CNY.

Our normal CNY routine is we eat reunion lunch with my mother and reunion dinner with my in-laws during CNY eve. Then on the 1st day of CNY, we will go to visit my in-laws with CNY greetings (pai nian 拜年) in the morning and then visit my mother in the afternoon.

This year my brother bought us dinner on CNY day 3. One of the dishes was salmon yee sang. This year I find the price to be pretty steep - RM48 for half a portion. An added bonus: there was a lion dance in the restaurant when we were halfway through our dinner and we have a good view of the "stage" from our table.

After performing the traditional lion dance, the two lions and the joker then proceed to perform O.G. Style dance - the currently very popular (O) ppa (G) angnam Style dance. It was very entertaining. Too bad I did not capture a video of the dance. I just took some blurry photos. It was a fun dinner, all thanks to my brother!

Salmon Yee Sang before mixing

After mixing

Two lions and a joker dancing (O) ppa (G) angnam style dance

A very entertaining dance

恭喜發財

Another one day to go and it will be Chinese New Year! Here's wishing everyone who celebrates Chinese New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai (Mandarin). May all of you have a prosperous year!

Here are the (foc) ang pow packets that were given to me. I have yet to fill them with money to be given out during CNY. This new year is the year of the snake but only two packets have snake-related design - one with cute snakes and one with a scary looking snake. I like the pink one best.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Red, Pink, Brown AngPow Packets

Cute snakes design

Scary snake design

****Updated: I did not realise that there are 3 different colour schemes for this pattern until I took them all out. So nice!

Happy Holiday!

One more day to go and it will be Christmas. Here's wishing everyone a happy holiday and for those celebrating Christmas - a very Merry Christmas!

Christmas decorations at a mall

Another long weekend

What a surprise to see the flowers

Another long weekend gone as last Friday was a public holiday. We went for a gathering with old friends from secondary (high) school. Most of them are married with children ranging from 4 years old to 12 years old. That reminded me that I am getting old and I should treasure life more.

Then as usual with holidays, we took the parents out for a meal. My spouse also helped them to repaint their door and listened to their grouses about the various things that needed repair around the house. I guess when we grow old, it is harder for us to perform house maintenance tasks.

To wrap up the holidays, we watched a TV movie with the title "Temple Grandin". It is a biographical film of Dr. Grandin who was diagnosed with autism when she was a child but then went on to overcome many obstacles to earn a doctoral degree. A truly inspiring movie.

Long weekend

Hari Raya this year was on Sunday (19 Aug) and Monday (20 Aug) so we had public holidays on Monday and Tuesday (20 and 21 Aug). I gave my netbook a holiday too and did not switch it on for all four days but I did go online via other devices.

Relatives living in other states took this opportunity to come back to visit their elders and we had a grand time catching up with them. It was a breeze to drive in KL on Sat and Sun because there was no traffic congestion as everyone was either away on vacation or out of town visiting their parents. Those who stayed back in KL thronged the shopping malls with babies and grandparents in tow and that included us. :D

To everyone on the road, please drive safely. Hope all of you enjoyed your weekend.

Midvalley Megamall

Paradigm Mall

The Curve

1st day CNY

I just came back from visiting my in-laws on the 1st day of Chinese New Year. It is drizzling now and I am supposed to be taking a nap but I find myself blogging instead. This year, CNY is slightly different as my spouse cooked the vegetarian meal for his whole family this time and it was a success!

Here's wishing all my blogger friends who are celebrating Chinese New Year: happiness, good health, wisdom, courage, prosperity and peace in this year of the dragon!

The Magnificent Flying Dragon

Our version of "yu sheng".

I helped my sister baked these cookies!

Season's Greetings..

..from Penang. I will be spending the New Year in Penang at my brother's place. Just got here last night. Please recommend - any must-see places or must-eat food?

view from my room this morning

Snap away

I see Christmas decorations everywhere - so what else is there to do but to take lots of photos of the pretty displays. Here they are:

Pretty lights surrounding a lone snowman

Seashell angels 

Can you spot the Santa Claus?

Giant Toys

A white Christmas

What is a green rabbit doing here?

Christmas in a Castle

A Fun Fair

Giant Candy Canes

Where are Santa's reindeers?

A golden Christmas

An A-maze-ing Christmas

Lots of presents

Lovely Chandeliers

Tiny Christmas Trees

christmas wreath

A different kind of christmas tree?

An elegant Christmas tree

Alvin and the chipmunks

Santa and his reindeers