Thursday, February 17, 2011

Last Day of Chinese New Year

Today is the last day of Chinese New Year and it is called "Yuanxiao" festival in Chinese. Today is also the Chinese Valentine's Day. It is believed that on this particular day, single ladies would bring mandarin oranges to the river and throw the oranges into the river in hope to get a boyfriend.

I still remember my younger days when I was studying in Penang, my friends and I drove all the way to the river and see how the ladies throw oranges. It was an eye opener for us. Interesting but I have never tried throwing oranges.



The cherry blossom tree turned into a wishing tree with red packets and wishes in them

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