Showing posts with label Chinese New Year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese New Year. Show all posts

20 Jan 2015

CNY In The Air Again


Chinese New Year is in the air again and as always, shopping complexes in Melaka seem to be competing with one another in coming up with the most interesting and creative CNY decorations. Of course, these shopping complexes will go to the ends of the world just to show off their creativity.

One thing is for sure. This is perhaps one of the best time for shutter bugs as there are virtually endless possibilities. How about the mangkuk siah and beaded nyonya shoes for decoration? Not directly linked with CNY but still very much linked with Melaka as they are considered as icons for the Nyonya community in Melaka.

So thumbs up for the decoration?


23 Jan 2014

Year Of The Horse


It's time for Chinese New Year celebration again. This time around it is the year of the horse and true to the nature of a horse, there will be a lot of horsing around this time around. Like any other festivity, Chinese New Year is one time of the year where practically all shopping centres will have their special festivity decoration to commemorate the event. Chinese New Year is no different. 

You just need to walk into any shopping centre, be it a large shopping centre or not so large, and you will find all sorts of beautiful decorations all around. However, after having seen Chinese New Year decorations in the past, you have seen it all. There is not much difference from the decorations used in the previous years.


As the Chinese are so obsessed with money and prosperity, you are most likely to see decoration depicting gold, money and things along that line. Come to think of it, these decorations are so predictable that you can already guess what kind of decorations they will use even before you set your eyes on those decorations.

As for Dataran Pahlawan, these two bears (below) looks familiar. It did not take long for me to realise that these are the bears used for the Christmas decorations. You just need to change the bears' costume to make them look like they are celebrating Chinese New Year and voila...you have a new decoration for Chinese New Year. Out of idea or being cheap...?