Just last Friday night 'Vin got tanglungs to play. So there we were: 'Vin and Joan, lad, otousan and us. Initially it wasn't much as the park lights were still on and thus the tanglungs didn't stand out, but come midnight and whoa! Beautiful. Of course, we still had light pollution (huh) from the street lights and the houses surrounding the small padang near the twins' house, but the tanglungs stood out - red, orange and green, all located around trees, the swings...and on a tree stump. Funnily enough the tanglungs we'd put on the tree stump burned! From there came the suggestion to start a fire...and that sparked off happy feelings of camping days for them old scouts as they went about looking for kindling and eventually feeding the tanglungs and candles to the fire.Speaking of tanglungs, while we were in Glasgow we hadn't much in way of Chinese New Year decorations. Some apartments had more - the upside-down 'fortune' sign, even the (yeurgh) smiley Chinese boy/girl picture all dressed up and wishing all a happy CNY! We don't recall if anyone had fireworks tho'. As for our apartment, we'd to head to the art shop near George Square, get some red paper (not really paper...something like the covers you'd use for your binded projects), came back and cut them while watching Sailormoon Sailorstars (are we ever thankful that all that has been has lead us to Glasgow to find ALL the episodes of Sailormoon and Sailormoon Sailorstars!) and tra-laa! our own contribution to Chinese New Year.
When Uncle J, TJA, LF and KH saw it they thought it nicer if both sides had it (we'd shared the same dining room and kitchen areas) and so they'd use the remaining paper we had. Result? As you can see above, simple but tasteful. Only thing was everytime Uncle J walked past it he had to stoop or knock into the lanterns!How else now...oh yes, our CNY steamboat:
Simple yet happy.
3 comments:
I like the mini tanglungs in your JBC apartment! How come I never saw it there before...haha...shows that you never invited me over for CNY...>:P
Haaa...I myself have neva visited your apartment meself! Not even for a birthday (see how far apart we were then...>:D). Another bitty I do remember about CNY there was playing 3-kaki mahjong with Christine and Yu Juang.
Man, haven't had the chance to play with tanglungs for dino-years! Hrmm, I dun remember seeing those mini-tanglungs in ur JBC apartment lar... Selective memory or selective vision? HEE
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