Vesak Day Eve Lamp Offering at Hai Inn Temple

 18 May 2019

Every year on Vesak Day's eve, the children will go to Hai Inn temple for Lamp Offering 传灯.
Do you know why is there lamp offering and lighting up and passing the bulb of fire from one to another?

I extract this explanation from  SAMYE INSTITUTE website


Light means understanding because light represents wisdom. And light removes and dispels misunderstanding. All of our suffering comes from not knowing and not seeing. Offering lights or butter lamps indirectly removes confusion. Moreover, to be successful in life we need to have clear ideas and good understanding. And we should not just believe that success and good results are based on luck. Instead, when we have problems, we need clear understanding and wisdom to solve those problems.

Chinese explanation on the meaning of 传灯 at Nanputuo.com  website
http://www.nanputuo.com/wz/html/201410/2914541673499.html

传灯有两大意义：
一是代表佛法辗转相传，代代相传，普世相传。
二是代表智慧光明，能破除幽暗，破除无明烦恼。
传灯还有薪火相传，光明不断，奉献自己，帮助别人之含义。

祝大家， 法喜充满， 卫塞节快乐！HAPPY VESAK DAY 2019 _/|\_

2018 CNY Bake - CSH Clover Savoury House

It's again once a year, a Chinese New Year. It's my favourite festival of the year, not because of the Ang Pao (of course), but because of the tradition and memories.

I am scared to count how many cycles I have been through this zodiac animals thingy, how many years of fengshui I have been following.

Aside from these, yes I love to bake for CNY. I am always following the bakers' trend from what they are baking and I am so interested to see what they bake. This year I bake doggy figurine pineapple balls and  German cookie in doggy shape. So far this is it and I will continue to bake other stuffs. I am already late.

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CNY at Chinatown 2018

Chinese New Year of the Dog is coming so I visited Chinatown during one of the weekdays, at the same time catching up with few friends

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"Wang wang" is what we want usually symbolise by pineapple, but for the coming year, dogs are the one who will be representing "Wang" because it's the barking sound of doggies and puppies. Wang wang everywhere.                              

Catching up with freinds

CNY stall selling CNY stuffs

CNY goodies, yum yum!!

CNY lanterns

2017 CNY Rooster Year - Clucky the lucky rooster

Clucky is the one we get for Rooster Year 2017.

The rooster is a symbol of fearless warrior who excel in both 文& 武. (ie. 文武双全). Why? A rooster has a crown on his head which symbolises "scholastic attainment". Rooster has very fearless characteristics and sharp beak and craws on its feet to fight with its enemies which is why he is also a symbol of Kungfu Warrior or "武者"

Back to Clucky our lovely soft-toy rooster,

Clucky is very lovable, has a lovely face to see and body is so huggable. Love at first sight, so we brought him home.

His feets sew in shape of a "peace" symbol, so simple to draw, always what we call "chicken feet", meaning "easy".
In terms of fengshui, according to WOFS.com, the rooster figure is very auspicious to be gifted to children this year because they can protect the children from being harm or bullied in school (red) and helping them achieve good result (yellow).

We are glad that we bought him home despite being indecisive at first and keep going back to look at it. The store has only 5 of them.

Thank you Clucky for joining our family!

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Metta's birthday party on Valentine's Day

A closer view on the birthday party after our 人日 celebration. She mentioned that it's also 金金, the fish's birthday because the fish is a CNY fish which falls on Feb (this year). They are cutting the cake together.
 

 

7th day of CNY, 人日, Metta's birthday and Velentine's Day

大年初七人日，西方情人节， Metta 生日。三喜临门的庆贺。

Bought mango mousse cake again this year (forgot that we also bought
mango mousse last year...) for her birthday celebration.

Metta received Ang Bao from popo for her birthday
Metta and me received rose for Valentine's Day from papa.
We had a heartful teppanyaki cum steamboat at home today.

It was so fun!

CNY Day 6 - 捞鱼生 at bestie's house

大年初六 - 六六大顺。
大家来捞鱼生

CNY 6th day - Lao Yu sheng for prosperity at my bestie friends' house.

Enjoy our day with the dog this year. Really gentle and cute!