In the past year, i’ve started exploring different forms of entertainment in KL…
and one of them have been stand up comedies!
I watched MACC (Malaysian Association of Chinese Comedians) last year cos my friend Jenhan was in it (support mah!),
and i thoroughly enjoyed myself.
It’s a great way to spend a few hours,
you get to sit down and indulge in laughter – the best medicine!
The trio are back this month with a Chinese New Year special:
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Tickets can be purchased at PJ Live Arts Theatre’s Box Office.
Alternatively, buy it online at www.pjla.com.my
or call 603 – 7960 0439 / 012 683 2099 for information.
Price difference is due to normal seats vs premium seats (numbered).
I’ll be giving away 2x tickets to the 27th January 9pm show!
To win, tell me an experience or memory regarding Chinese New Year.
I.e. For my Cantonese family, the first day of CNY should be vegetarian.
When we were children, eating veggies was the bane of the festival.
Especially that vegetarian dish with the hair-like thing?
(I’m such a bad Chinese, don’t even know what it’s called -_-)
Over the years we just got accustomed to it so it’s not so bad when we’re adults,
but when we were kids, we used to get my aunty’s maid to cook us Maggi mee in the afternoons so we could still eat something yummy… without breaking that rule of being vegetarian!
To submit your entry, simply comment on the post (with valid email)
or email joycethefairy@gmail.com
Deadline: 24th January 2011
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Congrats to Lily for winning the tickets!
And thanks to everyone else who participated ๐
The best part (for me) about Chinese New Year was getting lots of Ang Paos! Of course I remember other things as well, like spring cleaning the house days before the New Year, decorating the house with red decorations, helped mum to pack angpaos to be given out to relatives, etc…
On the day of CNY, we wore new clothes to visit and pay our respects to our grandparents, relatives and family friends. We’d always be invited to eat lots of food and tidbits too, and also… chor dai dee! Lol.
But really, the best part of CNY is getting together with all the family and relatives because it is not everyday that you get to see all of them (some of them from overseas) to gather at the same house. Bliss! ๐
I remember last time when my grandmother was still around and i’m still young, all of us will gather at my grandma’s place in taiping. And every year, my aunty would buy those trees that have those cotton ball flowers..i dont know what isit called..haha..my uncle would hang ang paos on it that has different amount of money in it ranging from 8 ringgit to RM888. And all of us will take turns to choose the angpao. There was one year i got RM8 only..that was kinda sad..haha..My uncle always make sure that my grandma gets the ang pao with the most money. It made my grandma really happy.
All of us would just gather together, talk, laugh and cramp together in the room. It was really fun. We dont have it now already as we had grew and my grandma passed away. I’ll never forget the wonderful memories i had during CNY.
Gosh, to name one is simply impossible! ๐
One of them I guess must be staying up late to ‘welcome the God of Prosperity’. I guess it’s the atmosphere that I miss when everyone gather together in my grandparents’ place. The adults will be helping out in the preparation of the next day while us kids, will be playing with fire crackers. Not to mention, cookies…angpaos…new clothes….and more food!
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I come from a pretty mixed up family. My dad is malay, my mom is chinese, but they’re divorced. I have a step mom, who is also chinese. So every year for Hari Raya I’d rather be at work than celebrate it with my step mom.
But for Chinese New Year, I look forward to celebrate it with my mom and her side of the family.
When people ask me why I work on Hari Raya but not on CNY, not feeling comfortable to tell them the real reason, I’ll say “Because my Ang Pow will be more than my overtime pay, not like Hari Raya” ehehehe That throws them off for a while.Very true though!
not looking forward to this year cny because i will be attending cousins wedding in singapore. less ang pow for me. no outings with friends. and only coming back the day before college reopens. wedding aint so bad, but i prefer staying here and going back to grandmamas house. so instead of usual cny, will be spending my time in a 6 hours car ride to kedah.
sigh, no grandmamas vegetarian food. no playing cards. no staying in a hot stuffy kampung house.
maybe, just maybe the comedy might help. *hinthint*
What I’m about to share is actually my good friend’s experience. She is a Punjabi and she has a very cute and funny mum.
A few years back when the chinese feng shui practices were made trendy by the Great Lilian Too, my friend’s mum was so into the feng shui stuff that she religiously rolled the mandarin oranges from the entrance of her house to the back of her house every morning for fifteen days!
And at a CNY dinner that the family had to go for, her mum actually held her glass of wine and shouted “Ham Sap” when it was time for a toast, drawing a collective gasps from people around her. What she had intended to say was actually “Yam Seng”!!
I was in stiches when my friend narrated this to me! ๐
I used to buy tonnes of CNY clothes cuz well, it’s Chinese New Year and that spells, NEW CLOTHES! So, I would carefully plan my outfits for chor yat, chor yee, chor sam and etc (1st day, 2nd day & 3rd day) The first day will be the funkiest, nicest set of clothes cuz first day usually means most house visits, makan and such. Somehow when I get dressed in the morning, it’d be the perfect set accompanied with matchy heels, bags, accessories and all that but as the day goes by, I get lazier… and lazier. I took the opportunity to change my clothes to shorts and tee and flops when relatives made a pit stop at my place.
So, I was clad in the most simple, going-to-pasar outfit when I went over to my 3rd aunt’s house. She gave me a long lecture, followed by other aunties on how to dress properly in CNY when going visiting cuz you’re not respecting and yada yada AND I was denied an ang pau too! It was pretty sad.
I actually appreciate my LOUD aunties in one way or another. Now I make sure I’m always dressed aptly according to functions no matter how tired or lazy I feel.