Hello friends!
The Lunar New Year is upon us very soon (19th February 2015, if you’re wondering) and this year heralds the year of the Goat/Ram/Sheep. I say Goat/Ram/Sheep, because I’m not quite sure what it is. I’m gunning for Goat because they look smarter to me, and goodness knows, sheep don’t exactly look clever do they? 😛
As I do at this time of year, I take a short break on MWS. I know, I just took an extended break not too long ago didn’t I? But it’s tradition and what’s the Chinese New Year without a bit of tradition eh? I admit to being a bit of a traditionalist 😉
Last year, I showed you what I usually get up to in the lead up to the Chinese New Year celebrations but this year, I’ve been a little more slack. I’m only just starting to look for my mandarin oranges and my home doesn’t have a scrap of gaudy red and gold decorations yet. Tsk! I’m slipping!
What I did do over the weekend was purchase some snacks – you can’t get through CNY without gorging on deep fried crackers and goodies, I swear. I always end the festive season with a face full of spots and a thicker waistline, but I guess that’s the price of doing nothing and eating all day long haha! 😀
Whatever you do, wherever you go and wherever you are, I wish you a safe and wonderful celebration. I’ll be back next week, but if you get really bored or curious about what I’m up to:-
- there’s the Archives with over 3000 posts to whet your appetite if you want something to read; or
- you can sign up for the MWS newsletter (if you haven’t already done so – what d’ya mean you didn’t know about it?! 😛 ) Here’s the February newsletter that you missed!; or
- check out my account on Instagram where we celebrate beauty in everything – predominantly in food LOL! But there’ll also be some upcoming beauty & makeup previews I’ll share over the break.
Above all, I wish every single one of you a happy and prosperous Year of the Goat and may you have a baa-ll of a time 😀
xoxo
Paris B
Wish you a great Chinese New Year, Paris. May all the happiness and joy be with you. Oh more money too so that you can buy more cosmetics to feed our eyes 😛
Thank you Dain and haha about money! Don’t we all wish we had more of that eh? 😀
A very happy Chinese New Year to you! I shall patiently wait your return! 😀
Thank you Rage, it was a nice break for me although I couldn’t wait to get back to work haha!
Happy new year love! Can’t wait to catch up with you! 😀
Yay! It was a good catch up! Enjoy the rest of your time here 😀
happy chinese new year to you and your family Paris. 🙂
Thank you Joanne! I hope you had a good holiday too! 😀
Paris sorry but I think your archive is kinda weird… It doesnt link to your archive but sort of submit page? Hope u fix it because I cant wait to read your over 3000 posts! Hehe
Apologies, I’ve just rectified it 🙂 Thanks so much for drawing it to my attention! I wouldn’t have known otherwise <3
HAPPY NEW YEAR MY FRIEND!! LOVE AND LUCK TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! XX
Thank you luv! 😀
That…..seadweed! XD
Finished up a balang of it – once you pop you can’t stop!
Gong hei fatt choy to you and your family, Paris 🙂
Gong Hei Fatt Choy to you and your family too, Lily! Hope it was a fun time 🙂
Enjoy your hols and Happy Chinese New Year! Festive season is all about the food. So, eat and be merry! 😉
Gong Xi Fa Cai Lisa! 🙂 Yes, I ate too much, as usual but then what’s a festive season without all that feasting right? 😀 Hope yours was a good one too!
Happy New Year 😉
Thank you Marina! 😀
Kung Hee Fat Choy!
Gong Hei Fatt Choy Jennifer! Hope you enjoyed the festivities!
Happy New Year to You! Let’s just rest and relax…
The New Year will bring new beginnings… 🙂
Happy New Year Peiqing! 😀 You’re right, with the coming of the new year and Spring (even if that’s not happening here haha!) it’s a time to recharge and renew ourselves 😀 Hope you had a fun and relaxing time with your family and friends
We celebrate with FOOD on Instagram woman! Around hungry time I don’t dare to open it, not for the starbucks coffee cups but your delicious meals wafting virtual “you hungry Phil” waves.. like right now!
LOL!! What can I say, Phil – food rules!! 😀 (and I don’t drink Starbucks 😛 )
Happy New Year! I got my mandarin oranges but it was random coincidence – been trying to eat more fruit regularly.
More fruit is good! Happy New Year, Kuri! 😀
Gong Xi Fa Cai PB!
I wish to see you girls! Really!!! I just don’t have the time to travel for now!!! huhuhu!!! 😀
Gong Xi Fa Cai to you and your family Nikki! I hope you had a fun celebration and I know! I keep meaning to plan a trip to PH but it never seems to work out. Some day!!
Happy Chinese New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai, Paris! I spotted your red lipstick in your Pinterest picture! 😀 😀
Thank you Ting and I just made it to wish you Gong Xi Fa Cai too! 😀 How have you been? Hope the celebrations have been a good one 🙂
Hello Paris! I feel like I’ve been MIA from your blog for many months. I still read the blog on my iPad but i’m too lazy to type comments through the touchscreen. :p This year I didn’t go back to my parents’ for CNY. And I had been thinking, if I don’t start introducing the simple praying ritual (table laid out with fruits, incence sticks and candles) routine myself, my children will loose the Chinese culture forever. So I got some red table cloth, some decorative stuff, and I did a simple praying ritual with my family here. Not sure if my kids understand why we did this, but if I continue every year only during CNY, surely they understand eventually what’s it for, right? I only explained to them that the ritual is for remembering and paying respect to their loved ones who had passed away. 🙂
For makeup wise, I wore a RED lipstick (called China Red from Make Up Store… so chinese huh?!) and a RED linen trouser to work . With a champagne silk top (don’t think I’d dare to go topless!!?). 🙂 The red lips really put me in a festive mood. 😀
How about you? Did you have a good celebration? xxx
Haha I did wonder where you’d gone off to, but I figured it happens. Life gets in the way, as I always say 😀 I think you’re doing the right thing keeping traditions alive. I know people think it’s old-fashioned, or overly traditional in these modern times, but I feel sometimes, we need to keep some cultural elements alive or we’d all fade into a homogenous culture, and then where’s the fun in that right? 😀 Did you have a break over CNY? I”m not sure how widely celebrated it is in Thailand, but I hope you had a nice break anyway. It’s back to the grind for everyone now the celebrations are over!
I am quite conservative in some sense. Without tradition we will be nothing. :p haha. Well CNY celebration is quite popular here. Lots of Thai-Chinese you know. 🙂 And this year I happened to be around China Town (Yaowarat) for some work a lot, so I got to feel the festivity much more than years before. 🙂 You wondered where I’d gone off to? That means you missed me? Awwww…. I miss exchanging comments with you too! 😀 xx
Haha I’m pretty conservative myself too actually and I love traditions. Also because I can be superstitious too LOL 😀 Sigh, I’m itching to go back to Bangkok. I usually go down to Yaowarat as well – never been there before/during CNY though! And yes, of course I missed you! I sometimes wonder where some regulars disappear to but then I realise that life often gets in the way of fun so I figure that must be it 🙂