Lunar New Year 2007

Chinese all over the world celebrated the Lunar New Year on February 18. However most of them would be back to their home towns for the annual reunion lunch/dinner by February 17, which was the eve of the holiday. For most of our Singapore employees, home town is really the city itself, so there were no long journey home or queueing for buses, trains or planes. Instead, the time was spent on last minute shopping for new year goodies and sundries for the reunion dinner.
For SMD Singapore, we had our new year eat-together on February 28.

The celebration started off with yee-sang, which is the cantonese word for raw fish. Incidentally, yee-sang doesn't originate from Kwangtong province of China or HongKong, where the cantonese dialete is spoken everywhere. This dish originated in either Malaysia or Singapore and because many of the restaurant chefs are of cantonese origin, it is probaby where the cantonese name came from.
We had a group photo for those early birds. Starting from left: Lam Wai Kwok, Anna Sim, Lim Seok Cheng, Kong Ling Ling, Alice Sim, Frank Chua, Koh Siew Koon, Lek Foong Mei, Chen Li Yong and Robert Tai.

We had 2 yee-sang dishes. The one at the foreground has no fish, so is vegetarian and the one at the background has slices of raw fish in it.
Robert Tai un-corking the sparkling apple juice.

Helping themselves at the buffet spread after the yee-sang.Part of the crowd.
and when the morning shift had finished theirs, the afternoon shift arrived. Here you can see Shamsiah, Normala and Faizal.

SMD Spore CNY Lunch on 2 February 2006

迎春接福

(yin chun jie fu)

Today is 2 Feb 2006. It is also the 5th day of the lunar year of the Fire Dog. A heavenly Fire stem and an earthly branch of the Earth Dog will ensure that the year will be less hostile and will experience less conflicts during the year. Electronics being a 'fire' industry, will hopefully propel us to greater heights during the year! Here in SMD, we start the year with a small celebration.

We have to thanks Dorwin for helping to organise this small celebration.

Before the crowd appears.....

The yu-sheng (various colours of shred vegetables with slices of

salmon plus lots of spices) arranged by Dorwin and Anna Lim.

This is for record only.

Have to get the people in first before the show begins.

Tossing the yu-sheng for a better year: more money, better health,

plentiful food, smooth sailing....... and everything that's good.

One orange cost $0.40 each but mind you, if you get $2.00 inside, it

more than pays for it.

Lim Seok Cheng's orange has no money notes inside. Too Bad for her.

Pang Soong can confirm it is really $2.00 from the orange.

The yu-sheng feast starts.

followed by local buffet. In place of napkins, smocks will also

do the job of collecting dripping saliva and dropping food.

Plenty of food for everybody.

and it is halal, so our Muslim employees can also join in.

birds of the same feathers flocks together, indeed.

We worked at the same section of course.

We eat and work on the same table, very convenient. Wonder

whether the food got stuck among the papers and documents.

Some people yum-seng using cut oranges. Very Singaporean indeed.