1st Day of CNY 大年初一

First day of CNY, the first thing I do after awake was search for "ang pao" under my pillow. From childhood, our parent will stealthily put two ang pao (ya sui qian) under our pillow after we fall asleep in the midnight of the 1st day of CNY. This is a traditional practice which means hoping the children having a safety year. For me, this is a meaningful practice. I can strongly felt the blessing and the love of my parent.Although I had grew up,I still hoping my parent will continue this practice on me.

During CNY, people will greeting each other with well-wishing. I sincerely wishing my parent and family members have a better year ahead, have good health , safe, happy always......

We having our breakfast while listen to CNY songs from the FM. Our food for CNY breakfast are various type of tasty CNY cookies and biscuit. The most popular in my house is definitely the home made pine apple biscuit and the native"keropok".

11am,my old friends visit to my house. Everyone wearing new cloth, dress up nicely and lovely. As we grew up, the friends staying in Kuantan are lesser. However, we still carry on our practice as last time by visiting friends' houses one by one. I am really excited and enjoy to gather with old friends. For now,our topic were more on working life instead of study life. I really feel thankful for having all these SMK Alor Akar friends, you will definitely feel happy and cheerful to be with them. Most of them are humorous and friendly.

Besides visiting my friends, I also visit my relatives, especially the uncle and grandma staying next door.

Today, I had asking for forgiveness from my parent. It is a good practice in buddhism and also commonly practiced by Malay during their Hari Raya. I think that we should always asking for forgiveness for all the mistake we had done in the past. Besides asking for forgiveness, we should try to avoid the same mistake in the future.

I had gain about 15 ang pao today! Thanks a lot! :)

大年初一，睡醒的第一件事情就是从枕头下找出父母给我的压岁钱。从小到大，父母都会在我们熟睡时悄悄到我们的房间把两个装着压岁钱的红包放到咱们的枕头下，意味着希望我们可以平平安安度过一岁。对我来说，压岁钱装着父母对孩子的祝福与疼爱。也许是长大了，今年父母打算当面把压岁红包赐给我，但我坚持要父母像往年一样偷偷放在枕头下。（好会撒娇哦！）

新年时，大家都会互相道贺，以及说些吉利的祝福语。我衷心的向亲爱的父母及家人一一道贺，希望大家新年进步，身体健康，平安快乐，事事顺利...

我们一家人一起边听新年歌，边吃早餐。我们的早餐就是吃各式各样的新年饼干。在我们家最受欢迎的新年饼非妈妈辛苦制作的黄梨饼（菠萝饼）与东海岸土产--鱼饼莫属。

11am,我的一班好友就来我家拜年啦！大家都穿新衣，打扮得美美帅帅的。随着年龄的增长，留在关丹的朋友也逐渐减少了。虽然阵容不如往年，但也不影响我们拜年的兴致。就这样一家又一家的拜年。见回老朋友，真开心啊！大家的话题都不在围绕在学业了，而多是谈工作、谈未来。当然，Alor Akar这班兄弟决少不了开玩笑！

除了去朋友家拜年，当然也有去亲戚家拜年。一早，我就到隔壁的舅舅家向外婆及亲戚们拜年啦！

今天，我也向父母求忏悔。求忏悔是实践佛法重要的一环，这也是我们该向马来同胞学习的美德。每逢开斋节，他们都谦虚地向他人请求原谅。这不仅能让我们放下自我，也能让我们省思与检讨自己过去的错误。除了求忏悔，最重要的是未来尽量不再重犯，知错能改，善莫大焉！

这样一天下来，收到的红包也有十多封咯！谢谢长辈们的祝福！


My elder brother, elder brother's wife, mom, daddy,younger brother and me!
大哥，大嫂，妈妈，爸爸，弟弟和我！















Asking for forgiveness from parent.
向父母求忏悔















Alice and me in new dress. A bit looking like ancient Korean dress.
嫂嫂和我的新裙子，宽宽的，有点像韩服