Kung Hei Fat Choi

On January 23, Chinese community will be celebrating their New Year. Here in the Philippines, Binondo is famous as we talk about Chinatown and just before the week of the Chinese New Year, Chinatown was so busy with lots of people, Chinese or not, buying lucky charms, Tikoy and fruits. Likewise, you can also see the dragon dance on the road.

As for our family, though we don’t have any Chinese blood, somehow, we believe in their rituals and some beliefs. My sister is actually the one doing all the shopping and feng shui consultations.

This is our prosperity basket (not quite sure if I have the right name though). It contains rice, some lucky charms, Php88 cash, incense and more.


And here are our fish surrounded by 8 kinds of fruits and coins. This is I think the offer for Buddha.


And lastly, this is our wish paper and incense. We wrote all our wishes on that paper then burned it by 12 midnight and then we lighted up 9pcs of incense to complete the rituals.

Though we believe in some of their sayings, we don’t exactly depend our life there. We still believe in our own faith and we still work hard to have a better future.