Introducing my sis's dog... Minnie!!! Haha... She looks so adorable with this expression. She loves eating toothpicks, tissues and chewing walls!
In case you are wondering why there are no food posts yet, well… it is because I am too busy with packing house to consolidate all the food pictures. We are moving house on the 19 June and the current house is in a mess now.
When you first moved into a new house, it seems like there are some procedures to follow. I have compiled the following to be done:
- Bring over salt, rice and sugar, bottle of cooking oil and vinegar
- Boil water and turn on all lights
Besides the above, water is boiled immediately after entering the home and all lights in the home are turned on for at least 15 minutes. If one is staying in the house, turn on the `balcony' light or if there is no balcony, the living room light for that night.
- Red Packets
Red Hong Bao packets are also placed on the kitchen stove and keep a Red Hong Bao in each bedroom's cupboard drawer. The money should be even numbers. For example, it can be 6 cents. For the Hokkien, 6 sounds like luck. For the Cantonese, they may use 8 cents for luck.
- Rice
Since the stable food of the Chinese is rice, than it is natural to go into the home and sprinkle (scatter) rice all around the various rooms of the home. (REMEMBER: Don't spill it out of the window).
- Green Beans
Green symbolise the East or rising sun. And again scattering green beans in the home is symbolic of seeding the home (with children). Just imagine - the hope is that green beans sprout in the home and this symbolic gesture has to do with this.
- Salt
Especially if the house is a second-hand one, often, salt is sprinkled around the home to supposedly cleanse away bad qi or old qi. And it is also sprinkled in the toilet.
Getting a new home is really something exciting, especially since we are very much involved in the renovations and decorations. I will definitely take some nice photos to show you our sweet home after we have moved in :p
When you first moved into a new house, it seems like there are some procedures to follow. I have compiled the following to be done:
- Bring over salt, rice and sugar, bottle of cooking oil and vinegar
- Boil water and turn on all lights
Besides the above, water is boiled immediately after entering the home and all lights in the home are turned on for at least 15 minutes. If one is staying in the house, turn on the `balcony' light or if there is no balcony, the living room light for that night.
- Red Packets
Red Hong Bao packets are also placed on the kitchen stove and keep a Red Hong Bao in each bedroom's cupboard drawer. The money should be even numbers. For example, it can be 6 cents. For the Hokkien, 6 sounds like luck. For the Cantonese, they may use 8 cents for luck.
- Rice
Since the stable food of the Chinese is rice, than it is natural to go into the home and sprinkle (scatter) rice all around the various rooms of the home. (REMEMBER: Don't spill it out of the window).
- Green Beans
Green symbolise the East or rising sun. And again scattering green beans in the home is symbolic of seeding the home (with children). Just imagine - the hope is that green beans sprout in the home and this symbolic gesture has to do with this.
- Salt
Especially if the house is a second-hand one, often, salt is sprinkled around the home to supposedly cleanse away bad qi or old qi. And it is also sprinkled in the toilet.
Getting a new home is really something exciting, especially since we are very much involved in the renovations and decorations. I will definitely take some nice photos to show you our sweet home after we have moved in :p
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