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Finally after clearing up the mess in the storeroom, in the bedrooms, the kitchen, the living room, my house is ready to welcome the New Year!

Starting from my main entrance. My plant, which I managed to ‘revive’ it, is decorated with fluffy-cotton-wires around its branches.

We decorated the house with Mickey and Minnie Mouse everywhere since this year is the year of the Rat, or else we will need to wait for 12 more years before the year of the Rat visits again.

We pasted another Mickey and Minnie on our main door. Mickey’s banner says, “Welcome the fortune that Spring brings”.

Minnie’s banner says, “May million wishes come true.”

The word ‘Fu’ in the centre which Mickey and Minnie mouse is holding, means lots of Goodness and Luck.

The word in the middle is actually a combination of four different chinese words. The four words are ‘Zhao Cai Jing Bao’, meaning inviting wealth and storing treasures.

I guess this is the favourite character during Chinese Lunar New Year. He is the god of wealth – ‘Cai Shen Ye’. And he is holding a big golden antique coin – ‘yuan bao’.

Not forgetting all the yummies. Sweets and Chocolates are must. Egg-rolls, ‘fire-crackers’, pineapple tarts, ginko nuts, peanuts, fish crackers, prawn crackers and ‘nian gao’, the round brown stuff on the bottom right.

And every single item actually comes with a good omen. Either for school or work or health or wealth. Its really amazing how these beliefs from ancient China could pass down to our modern generation.

With all these red and gold everywhere, who can’t feel that Chinese Lunar New Year is here!