Getting ready

This is the last weekend before we hit Year of Horse and we were especially busy with all the preparation since there are 4 workdays next week and 1st day of Lunar New Year is on a Friday.

So, we make sure all our clothes are washed, aired and iron by this weekend so that we get to follow the tradition of wearing new clothes on 1st day of the new year. I had already settled my new bedsheet 2 weeks earlier leaving these 2 weekends for the new clothes. Haha. Clever plot since Mr Love is used to buying his new clothes LAST MINTUE. And he keep maintaining that we need not wash them prior to wearing. Yikkeesss.. I insisted in washing once and he left the job to me.

We had already settled the food part. Went to the supermarket to do marketing this year as I couldn't wake up in time to go the market. Hehe I though supermarket would have more reasonable pricing as the market vendors are well known to jack up prices during CNY.

How wrong I was. Brought a promfet for 13bucks. Usual price would be 10bucks for the same size during normal season. Tiger prawns set me back by 20bucks for 12. I comtemplate buying chicken at the supermarket but decided otherwise as I prefer to buy from my favourite chicken seller in the market. Haha. So we woke up today early to go get the chicken.

Prawns for 20bucks

Man, the crowd is C.R.A.Z.Y. Really, I literally had to be push along as I walk in the market. Mr Love was having a black face and luckily we were there for the chicken only. Had it been full marketing, I think he would have parked himself somewhere and wait for me instead of walking together. Lovely husband.

We also brought rice to fill up our rice container as it is believed that we should maintain a full rice container during CNY in order to have rice to eat whole year round. And also 5 stalks of leeks to hang in the kitchen. Both mummies say it's to ensure we get to calculate (money) all year round. Ahh all the customs. Hahah. My colleague was amazed that I still follow some of the old Chinese customs or old folk tales. I am amazed by myself too.

I also finished preparing all the required ang baos, separating them into different sizes for the different values so that I don't give out the wrong ang bao. Hehe

Ang bao for the 1st day

And lastly, I did ironing of all the new clothes in 2hours all the while blasting CNBLUE's "Blind Love" repeatedly on my phone. Whaha Mr Love nearly went bonkers with the music and he keep grumbling that I am listening to unknown chanting. Haha

But the good thing about democracy in our household is that whoever does the housework would have the last word. Haha. So no matter how irritated with the blasting of my current favourite song, he tried his very best to endure till I finished all the ironing. Haha. But it is pretty therapeutic to iron clothes while blasting CNBLUE's song.

Our full wardrobe

Now what is left is only changing our bed sheet on CNY eve so to ensure we sleep on new bed sheet during the year. I think we are ready to welcome the Year of Horse. How about you?