Happy Chinese New Year. May you have a goat goat year

愿您与家人新年快乐！在新的一年里，天空一片晴朗，快乐心中徜徉，自由随风飘荡，身体力行健康，奋劲儿热情高涨，顺利成就梦想!

Wishing you and family a goat goat year! May peace, love and joy fill your heart all year round!

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Happy Chinese New Year 2014

We would like to wish you Gong Xi Fa Cai and Happy Chinese New Year. May the year of horse bring you abundance of joy, strength, luck and happiness!

祝您新年快乐! 愿您新的一年工作顺利，家庭幸福，身体健康，万事如意！

May all beings bEE happy.

(photo taken on the first day of 2014 Chinese New Year at Cheng Hoon Teng Temple of Melaka)

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Happy Chinese New Year 2013

Happy Chinese New Year 2013.

Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous Chinese New Year! May the year of snake bring love, joy, happiness and peace to everyonEE.

Gong Xi Fa Cai.

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Happy Chinese New Year to all! (1Malaysia prosperity dragon at the entrance of Jonker Street)

Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快乐!

Sharing the shots captured for the past two days in Melaka, places like Dutch Square, Jonker Street, Jalan Hang Kasturi (also known as Tofu Street), Jalan Kampung Pantai and Melaka Raya. During the outing, I also tried to photograph the dragons in town as we are entering the year of dragon in two days time.

Thanks to all friends for your visits and comments here to make juesatta a better site. Hope that we will fill you always with sEErenity. Enjoy the year of dragon and wish you and family good wealth and health.

May all beings be happy.

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Before we release the second part of “Our town Malaqa” video, Fred, Kenn and I made a short film of pre Chinese New Year’s (CNY) atmosphere in Melaka.

While we were filming for the first video about our lovely hometown last month, it came to our mind that to do a Chinese New Year’s video as well, to share the many moments of CNY happiness with our fellow friends and family.

This video features decoration of Chinese New Year in the streets of Melaka town, shopping mood in Dahtaran Pahlawan, lion dance championship in Mahkota Parade, and invited some locals and foreigners to say a few greetings.

And fortunately we managed to capture the 398 feet long of 1Malaysia prosperity Dragon guarding the entrance to Jonker Street. The clips were included into the video right before we finalized it.

We really appreciate all of the great support and help from our friends in making this film. Besides, we would like to thank our friends and family who are always so kind and supportive to us. Without you life would be less colorful and nice.

Happy Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai!

May all beings bEE happy.

Filmed by fred, kenn and cj
Shot with 5D2
Music by MY Astro 大合唱 《开心过年》

fredyap : http://frederickyap.blogspot.com
kennwai : http://kennphotography.blogspot.com
cj : http://www.juesatta.com

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message of spring

Congratulation to our town Melaka, being among the 45 ‘must-visit’ places in year 2012, as listed by The New York Times!

“With its lantern-lighted canals and silent, narrow streets lined with decades-old ornate temples and shop houses, few places in Southeast Asia conjure romantic images of the past as effectively as Malacca, Malaysia’s oldest city. A former Portuguese, Dutch and British colony, this Unesco World Heritage site is now attracting record numbers of tourists lured by its unusual architecture and cuisine, which reflect centuries of foreign influences.

More than seven million visitors are expected in 2011, so the town, about 90 miles southeast of the capital, Kuala Lumpur, is welcoming new hotels like the Casa del Rio, a Portuguese-inspired luxury boutique property with 66 rooms; and Courtyard@Heeren, a 100-year-old shop house converted into a 14-room hotel. When you’re not exploring places like the 17th-century former Dutch town hall or Jonker Street’s antiques shops, gorge on Malacca’s outstanding local specialties, like creamy, piquant nyonya laksa at the family-run Donald & Lily’s.”

by NAOMI LINDT

It’s a good news for all our dear friends. And we have to help to keep our town the clean, safe, friendly and happening place we all know and love.

Right, keeping the spring’s mood going! Sharing some shots of Melaka. While doing filming with Kenn-Wai and Fred these few weeks for our next coming video, I also collected a series of photos which I hope to deliver the atmosphere of Chinese New Year in town.

These shots were taken in a few location including Jalan Hang Kasturi, Jonker Street, Bemban and Jasin.

Happy Chinese New Year to all and may all beings be happy.

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Peah-Ching's Chinese New Year 2012 hampers (click to enlarge)

Doing a favor for my friend, Peah-Ching. This coming new year of dragon, Peah-Ching has design a wide range of Chinese New Year hampers to choose as a great gift for your family, relatives and friends. Free delivery to your love ones’ doorstep within Peninsular Malaysia.

Available for order now. Kindly contact Peah-Ching (+6016 3378827) for more information.

Have a nice day and happy new year.

在这里帮朋友Peah-Ching做个宣传。农历新年将至， 佳节送礼不能少。Peah-Ching推出了大方且价廉物美的春节礼蓝让你选购，送给您的家人、挚爱及朋友。而且，免费运送到西马地区。

如有兴趣请联络Peah-Ching (+6016 3378827) 。

祝新年快乐。

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Chinese New Year red packets (红包)

The ChinesEE New Year 15-day celebration was just over last week and we would like to wish everyone a happy Chinese New Year. May everyone be happy and healthy always.

During the first day of Chinese New Year, children will greet their parents by wishing them a healthy and happy new year, and red packets from their parents. These packets often contain money in certain numbers that reflect good luck and honorability. In Malaysia, married person would not turn down the request when asked for red packets as it would mean that he or she would be “out of luck” in the new year. So next Chinese New year, when you meet someone married, do not hesistate to request for red packets.

Last month in mid of January, we too celebrated Thaipusam together with the Tamil community. During the colorful celebration devotees would carry out rituals like shaving their hair and carry various types of kavidi (burdens) undertake a pilgrimage along a set of route while engaging in various acts of devotion. Besides devotees would subject themselves to painful rituals such as piercing themselves with hooks, skewers and small lances. It was a nice feeling to be among friends and sharing the joy of one’s festival.

May everyonEE be happy and healthy always. Sharing some shots taken these two months festival season.

1 Malaysia lion dance

Hi there!

fishing village in Merlimau, Melaka

brothers

vibrance

dusk

inside

blessing of marriage

sisters

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Chinese New Year couplets for charity sale

Malaysian Contemporary Chinese Painting & Calligraphy Association of Melaka are organising Chun Nuan Ren Jian, Jia Jia Tie Chun Lian (春暖人间、家家贴春联) to promote Chinese calligraphy and decoration of New Year couplets for the household. Experienced Chinese calligraphers including children are helping to write the couplets and promote the sale.

Chinese couplets known as dui lian (对联) or “contrapuntal couplets” may be seen on doorways in Chinese communities worldwide. Couplets displayed as part of the Chinese New Year festival, on the first morning of the New Year, are called chun lian (春联). These are usually purchased at a market a few days before and glued to the doorframe. The text of the couplets is often traditional and contains hopes for prosperity.

Chinese couplets are normally written on vertical strips of red paper in the best calligraphic style one can muster. The first (called upper) line is posted on the right side of the front door. The second (called lower) line is posted on the left side of the front door. The couplets should correspond with each other phonologically, syntactically and semantically word for word and phrase for phrase.

This coming Chinese New Year will be the year Rabbit and also the 8th year the Malaysian Contemporary Chinese Painting & Calligraphy Association of Melaka is doing the event. The sale of the Chinese couplets from this event is for charity as fund collected will be donated to the Bachang St John’s Dialysis Center providing treatment for patients suffered from kidney disease.

Unfortunately I am unable to join the team these two weeks for going to school by school in Melaka to promote Chinese calligraphy and the sale of the couplets, however I am doing my best to write as many as I can and pass to the team for sale. So far, I have written about 30 pieces of the couplets and will keep on writing before Chinese New Year.

Thanks to the organizing committee for your hard work and friends for you support. To my friends who are interested in buying the couplets and doing charity at the same time, kindly contact me.

Happy Chinese New Year to everyone! May all beings be happy.

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Cheng Hoon Teng temple of Melaka

It’s the eve of Chinese New Year 2010. Most Chinese should have had their reunion dinner with family by now and settling down for the count down of the first day of Chinese New Year. It’s a warm and cheerful night now. 

May those we loved who just left us rest in peace and always be remembered. May we all be grateful of what we are having now and appreciate the people who are with us.

Happy happy chinese new year and Gong Hei Fat Choi. Before I signing off to count down, prepare to make blessing and pay respect to my ancestors like most Chinese would do, let me share some photos of the night view of Melaka town with everyone:

Melaka River

Melaka Riverwalk

Melaka River view near Jonker Street

Melaka Riverwalk

Cheng Hoon Teng temple with Chinese lanterns

Jonker Street with Chinese New Year decoration

Fountain at the Stadhuys Square

Clock Tower of Melaka

Stadhuys Square of Melaka

An alley at the red house

Building of Lui Chiew Associatioin Melaka full of lanterns

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The little eight year-old boy enjoying writing

With the permission of Mr. Liu, my chinese calligraphy teacher, I snapped some photos of the class and my friendly classmates who are mostly primary school students. Right now, most of the students are busy writting spring festival couplets for Chinese New Year. These couplets will be sold as charity fund for the Bachang St John’s Dialysis Center in Melaka.

According to Mr. Liu, Bachang St John’s Dailysis Center has about 100 patients. Each treatment is charged RM10 which is relatively cheap. By doing so, the center has to bare thousands of ringgit for the operation each year and thus, donation is collected to maintain the cost.

These young artists of the class (mostly primary school students) are doing their very best to write in order to help the dialysis patients. Every piece of the writings will be sold for charity and the fund collected is 100 percent donated to the  Bachang St John’s Dialysis Center.

Focusing...

Friendship...

One of the best students

Zi Hao is a very smart and talented boy

Sharing...

福 (Fu - which means luck and prosperity) written by a 10 year-old boy

Many of my classmates are very good artists with kind and warm hearted especially the 8 year-old boy I posted above. He was the boy who started talking to me first before others and also asked for my facebook account. I will write more about my classmates and Chinese calligraphy and share some photos in a Chinese post very soon.

If you have children or friends studying in any primary school of Melaka, you might have a chance to see the organising team dropping by and selling these couplets for charity. According to my teacher, there are 7,000 couplets (written by the chinese calligraphers including elders and young students) sold as to date for this Chinese New Year.

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