Add Spice To Your Nice

Have you felt the Chinese New Year atmosphere reigniting with all the familiar oriental decorations and firecracking new year songs which keeps repeating unbearably everywhere? Even hitz.fm plays it =.=

Yea i know its a jolly merry gong xi season which i can write a WHOLE list of things people do and love doing:- visiting, ang pau, firecrackers etc...

But do you have this feeling that, maybe, just maybe, all these static traditions and things are repeating itself year by year with no drastic changes that, somehow it may just burn out that excitement we used to linger towards it. You do notice that this "period" is highly repeated every year right?

A good example would be firecrackers and fireworks. Perhaps i may assume a lot of us use to be so forward looking towards "smuggling firecrackers" and of course, lighting them ourselves and seeing these fancy coloured creations blow up our inner delight. But as this practice goes on and on without revolutionize creativity, most of us move along and just lose that bit of enthusiasm towards these explosive.

Looks magical don't they, but haven't you seen enough of it?

How about the lion dance?

~tung tung tung chiang~
i use to wake up early and run to houses where these lion dance noises come from,
but now,
i find it a stepping stone for a good sleep XD

Or the food spinning tray that serves 90.5% the same food in 9 out of 10 houses you visit?

The tv programmes that show cast Award shows that are not up to date or just plainly those familiar faces singing CNY songs every year?

Do you know that CNY CD's and DVD's sell so much better than a lot of other local albums?

These girls sang CNY songs before i knew bout N'SYNC.
Some of them got into some company i guess and start making albums O.O
This was their cover, dunno why i find it funny :P

And of course the lanterns and similar decor that looks nothing much innovative as the years before? (except the zodiac of course, its the rat this year i suppose you'll know X)

But Wait!!! Whats this????

looks like a top view of a cleavage to me.jkjk..

there's more!!!!

itttt, looks like a pineapple, "but why is it so pinky?" XD

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TATA.
Its a pink PINEAPPLE XD


PINK !!!!

ok ok not that pink

PINK!!!!

yea, still pink right? haha

Xing Chun WANG Li Hua
(ignore the uncleaned background wall)

Briefly, it is an ornamental pineapple that looks absolutely unique! and of course, nothing typical at all! XD It only meets its customer once a year which is during chinese new year.

By the chinese name of it, it can be translate directly into- "New Spring Pineapple Flower" or the" Flower of the New Spring Pineapple", or the "Spring's New Pineapple Flower", or the "Flower Pineapple of the New Spring" or the... :S ..the bold red "Wang" means prosperity too. So people tend to believe the more you buy "wang" stuff like the pink pineapple, the prosper you are, hehe.



So how bout some fresh thoughts for your Chinese New Year decoration? This pink baby will definitely enlighten new taste or even a new concept to your either CNY decorated living room or just anywhere else that you wish to decorate other than the never-changing typical New Year's red theme. PINK is the IN THEME XD haha

Would this be a prosperous idea for your living room this Chinese new Year? :)

A family member of the ornamental pineapples. Looks cute to me :P

~*Fruit Basket*~

Its not costy to DIY something like this as most people would have mandarin oranges.
Anyway, the basket's from someone's rubbish bag :P recycle ok.

Bring some sparks to your Chinese new year! Try to freshen up your decorating concept and you might just get the ideal effect and of course, compliments :) *winks.

"So what are you waiting for? Grab some at your nearest outlets" XD haha. Jk Jk, don't wanna make this so formal. Just keep an eye for them and give some feedback, that'll do.

Happy Chinese New Year =D