The Lunar New Year will be here soon and everyone is getting excited. A year cones by very quickly. The older you get, the faster time moves.
When I was a child, a year seemed such as long time. Prior to Chinese New Year, we all as children had to work extra hard. Even as a child of seven or eight, I used to help my mother make cakes. I can still remember making Kueh bolu, Kueh belandar, agar agar, kueh binka etc. Yes, all home made and we would share with our neighbours esspecially the one family next door to us - a Malay family. And when Hari Raya came round, Uncle Harun and his family would give us Malay home made cakes. Those were the days. There was this lovely kampong spirit of caring for one another regardless of race or religion.
There would be the spring cleaning. Our little Singapore Improvement Trust Unit was very small, We would scrub the floors, cleaned out all the cobwebs and put out new curtains for Chinese New Year.
Preparations have to be made to celebrate the New Year. How more important it is that we should always be prepared for the day when the Lord will come to take us Home to the place He has prepared for His children. It will be a new day that will know no ending when we shall spend eternity with our Heavenly Father. That will be a great day of celebration.
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