4 more days and counting..

It's New Year again for the Chinese according to the lunar calendar. These are the traditional dishes that we keep up since centuries ago. On the night before our new year begins, nothing else matters other than reunion dinner before we legally tear down our calendar and begin the begin. In fact, who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It’s not on the calendar, it’s not a birthday, it’s not a new year, it’s an event —big or small, something that changes us, ideally it gives us hope, a new way of living and looking at the world, letting go of old habits, old memories. What's important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning, but it's also important to remember amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.

Fork Or Chopsticks?

Growing up in a family where you can only find chopsticks on dinning table and no forks. It has been compulsory for us to know how to use a pair of chopsticks table the proper way.

I’ve been taught how to hold a pair of chopsticks-the proper way when I was in lower secondary. What my dad told me was, as a Chinese we must know how to hold the chopsticks the proper way and not as long as you can pick up any food and stuff in your mouth. Part of tradition it seems-not to embarrass our ancestor and all the long-great grandmother stories that he claims.

But today, due all the history he told me, I know how to hold a chopsticks the proper way. Thanks to him that I learn. It’s not something that only certain people can do-it’s just a skill that anybody can learn.

Well, here’s link for some guidance : http://www.ehow.com/how_5322986_hold-chopsticks-proper-easy-way.html

If you hold them the proper way, then you supposedly can hold an egg with the chopsticks.

Or...

Have fun! ;)

Queen of My Heart

Happy Blessed Birthday, Mama!

I'm so blessed that I have the coolest mom in the world!

For the past 22 years of agony, I thank you for bringing me to this wonderful world. Thank you for being there during my ups and down. Thank you for every single thing you've sacrifice and done for me. You make the impossible, possible. Being a mom is the most noble responsibility one can ever bear. I owe you big time. In honor of your big 4-8, I will try my very best not to spend so much and do as much housework. Tehee! ;)

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Nothing trumps the love for my mom! Xo.