On Chinese New Year Eve, other than the traditional reunion dinner that we all know, there are many other things that we do too. Before Chinese New Year, everyone of us will go for a haircut and like us, our car need a wash too. It took me nearly an hour before my car was washed. Like the haircut, the price of car wash increased by $1 because of Chinese New Year.
My dad always had his own sets of rules and regulations during Chinese New Year. For example, if I want to continue to be lucky, once I step out of the house after 12 midnight, I can’t get back before 3am. Sounds ridiculous? But I followed. Then he said we need to consume our last meal of CNY eve by 11pm. What was our last meal? Yu Sheng. But I guess, this was probably one of the quietest Lo Hei we had, only my dad we super excited, for the rest of us, we just followed.
You will know by now that after Lo Hei, we are about 1 hour away from Chinese New Year. At the stroke of midnight, I will meet up with my cousin and aunty to the Kwan Im Temple at Waterloo Street to pray for good fortune, health and prosperity for the family. Just like previous years, it was really crowded. We had to squeeze our way through, but I thought, it was really worthwhile.
Just before we left, we took the opportunity to read the forecast of the zodiac at an area near Fu Lu Shou Complex and there was a rotating God of Fortune which I really like.
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looks like CNY in Singapore is almost the same as Malaysia apart from we can burn firecrackers..um illegally hahaha.
We are so near so I guess there are many similarities. Burning firecrackers is illegal in Malaysia?
Yup… it became illegal many years back. I used to play with firecrackers when my grandparents were living in Malacca and it was still legal. You will hear the firecrackers go off non-stop as the clock strikes midnight.