Category: Festivals & Celebrations

Thirteen Fruits for New Year Good Luck

New Year 2022

Thirteen Fruits for New Year Good Luck


Christmas and the New Year are the two main big celebrations in the Philippines.

This is saying a lot because Filipinos celebrate everything including opening an envelop. Sorry, I am exaggerating of course, but Filipinos do love a good fiesta, festival, birthdays, baptism, wedding, anniversaries and other celebrations. People even celebrate a new purchase of something big or memorable.

Anyway, the New Year is celebrated with a lot of pomp and circumstance in the form of big, huge firework displays participated by everyone in front of their house, windows and doorways.

This is followed by more superstitions of jumping up and down to promote growth in height.

Then, the alcohol becomes free-flowing until in the early hours of the morning.

But the piece de resistance is the food-laden table where a vast bowl with 13 kinds of fruits takes pride of place.

The thirteen fruits must be from different varieties like apples, grapes, watermelon, persimmon, lemon, lime, Asian pear, kiwi, grapefruits, chico, avocado, orange, nectarine, plum, etc.

The fruits should be ideally round as they symbolises good fortune, or money rolling into the household.

Anyway, now living in London, I have adopted this tradition and had been following it for more than thirty years.

To all our visitors at GLOBAL GRANARY, wishing you a safe, healthy, happy and fruitful

2022

Happy Chinese New Year 2020

Chinese New Year

25 January 2020

 

Global Granary wishes everyone celebrating the Chinese New Year wherever you are in the world a

Happy Chinese New Year 2020


Blackberry Mouse, photo by PH Morton

鼠年大吉

Shǔ Nián Dàjí


Chinese New Year starts the Spring Festival.


Kung Hei Fat Choi!


阖家欢乐

心想事成

恭喜发财


It is the Year of the Rat, Metal Rat.

The year of the rat is allegedly good for the following:

  • Childbirth because the year of the rat symbolises stability and longevity.
  • Being a Metal Rat Year, it is good businesses.

 

 

2020 – Another Decade Has Been Born

HAPPY NEW YEAR

It is 2020!

2020 – Another Decade Has Been Born

It’s a new day, it’s a new year, it’s a new decade!!!

I wonder what this new decade will bring?

I do feel a certain positivity about 2020.  There is something rejoicing when a year is an even number, for me at least.🤪

I fervently wish that 2020 will be the dawn of a new era of understanding and peace amongst people.

Let’s all work about global warming, what to do about it, what can be do about, what we can contribute in our own way, be it may be little.  Young Greta Thunberg is right.  There is a necessity and urgency to this matter.  It can no longer be put off!  We had to do something now.

Let’s be kinder to one another. It does not really take much to wish someone a good day, or give a friendly smile to someone and being helpful to someone.  Let’s give renaissance to our slumbering humanity.

This is also the time when technology should be working for us, not us working around it.  We have many excellent brains that can make technology work for us but their work and innovations are constraints by the few powers that be.

Let’s have less admin but more on the real doctors and nurses.

Let’s have a centralised purchasing unit for our hospital appliances and medicines.  A centralised purchasing unit has a bigger force than small independent ones.  But again make sure that there is transparency.