Oranges, Gold Coins and Red Melon Seeds

For certain restaurants, when you have the Chinese New Year luncheon or dinner, they have two oranges with a red packet on the table.



What's inside the red packets? Gold coins and red melon seeds.

Symbolism:
Anything with seeds, like pumpkin seeds or melon seeds symbolizes "lots of children".
Anything with gold, symbolizes prosperity.

(It has been a long time since my colleagues and I ate golden coin chocolates. We saw it and ate it. It still taste the same! It's the one is enough kind of chocolate. LOL)

That huge Lantern at VivoCity

The Chinese (and also Vietnamese, Koreans etc) are celebrating the Lunar New Year next week!
Decorations for the Lunar New Year has been up for some time.

I only notice this yesterday. A huge Chinese Lantern!



If you are wondering how tall it is, look at the person in the photo to have a rough estimation.

... chun... that's the word hanging up there...

The Lunar New Year deco's already up in most places. This was taken yesterday at a mall called Plaza Singapura.



Do you celebrate the Lunar New Year?
Not only Chinese celebrate them. Koreans and Vietnamese celebrates it too.

In the Chinese Zodiac, 2008 is the year of the Rat!
I am born in the year of the Rabbit, which year are you born in?