Chinese New Year was about 2 weeks ago and it is now the year of the Rabbit! My whole life I thought I was born in the year of the Pig/Boar only to find out that I was born before the 1983 Chinese New Year (CNY can fall anywhere between mid/late Jan to early/mid Feb-it's based on the moon; CNY is also known as Lunar New Year) so, I was actually born in the year of the Dog (as was Ryan)! The extent of my Chinese Zodiac education was from a place mat at Yen Jing in Greenville, Texas so it's been fun to learn a little bit more about it! (side note: I do miss the sizzling rice soup and wontons from there ;-)
Moving on....Ryan and I both had Thursday and Friday off, which was much needed! Thursday we spent the day BBQ-ing and playing dominoes(Shoot the Moon-if you don't know this game, you should, it's fun) with friends. Friday we went to the horse races. Singapore has a new Turf Club and it's beautiful. We won a little money and lost a little money so I think we came out even for the day!
Chinese New Year actually lasts 15 days so for 2 weeks you can see festivities all over town. Lion and Dragon dances are a huge part of CNY and they were going on all over town! Last Sunday, we were invited by some friends to the American Club to see the Lion and Dragon dance going on there. The Lion performance was amazing!
It was nice to enjoy a little bit of Chinese New Year this year. It was the weekend we moved to Singapore last year so needless to say we were a bit jet lagged and tired from the whirlwind of a month we had. Can you believe we've been in Singapore a year already?!?
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