This year's Eid in Malaysia is so fascinating pop culturally - so for the respective language markets, Malaysian songwriters have been quietly (??) dominating the respective markets when it comes to festival songs (eg China gets our CNY music; Indonesia gets our Raya music; even southern India I think gets our Deepavali music but more commonly our people pen songs for their movies too) but it's always been quite separated for natural reasons. This year though I'm seeing more confluence. This isn't even the first Chinese Malaysian Raya song for 2025 that got on my feed lol. I think we're all collectively warming up to the upcoming Kongsi Raya (CNY and Eid will fall on the same set of days lmaoooo and naturally that's a pun on Gong Xi - as kongsi raya literally means "shared festival/holiday") from 2029 to 2031. We're going to be so stressed and useless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_NNtOCeI64

So I've been learning to sing lately, targeting a specific style that I'd like to do some like bluesy folk-punk with. I got a couple done this morning and I'm pretty excited to share. Unfortunately the quality isn't the best as I just have a cheap podcasting mic and it clips hard when I get loud. Some of the better-sounding bits of the loud singing in this come from me actually putting the mic fully behind my back, so if anyone has any recommendations for a cheap mic that can handle a lot of volume LMK.

The first is Greenback Boogie by Ima Robot, I really like how this one came out.

If anyone knows any poets or people who play instruments who'd want to collaborate, I'd like to meet some folks. Especially if you're in the CNY area.

Been having fireworks for the last week but tonight's extra special loud and I forgot why... Sooooooo

HAPPY HOKKIEN NEW YEAR! YOU GET TO RESTART YOUR RESOLUTIONS AGAIN

Happy birthday everyone!!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renri

One woman’s quest to preserve the fading art of lion-head crafting.

Despite high demand for lion costumes every Chinese New Year, only a few artisans, such as Lim Seow Ling, are dedicated to this time-honoured activity.

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/02/02/one-womans-quest-to-preserve-the-fading-art-of-lion-head-crafting/ #Craft #papercraft #Malaysia #CNY #ChineseNewYear

Greater Coucal visiting Bishan Park to bring good luck to the park residents during the festive season.

It is believed by some to be a good omen

Fire and Emergency New Zealand has called on households to refrain from using fireworks or sky lanterns during celebrations for the Lunar New Year due to heightened fire risk in some parts of the country.
#ChineseNewYear #CNY #YearOfTheSnake #LunarNewYear #LNY #NewZealand
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/chinese/540286/fenz-issues-lunar-new-year-fire-warning

In this Year of the Snake, we wish all our members, customers, and partners a prosperous, healthy, and happy year!

Happy New Year to all who celebrate it! 新年快樂!

EDIT: wrote a new one, the last one had a wrong character, such is life.

Some of the many, many Lunar New Year gifts I've been giving out to friends. #LunarNewYear #LNY #ChineseNewYear #CNY #過年 #新年

Doing housework. Because new year’s eve demands it #CNY #LNY

No one in the history of the Year of the Snake has ever managed to design a Snake zodiac mascot that didn’t look like a giant cute sperm, sorry.

This is in Malay mostly so probably won't be as internationally famous as the other Malaysian CNY songs , but it is very cute and funny (well, of course, it's Douglas Lim). Happy Chinese New Year! Happy Lunar New Year! (Tomorrow, by my calendar)

#Malaysia #tootSEA #playlistSEA #CNY #LunarNewYear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNH_y0VL29g

Edit: ayyy thanks to @geraineon for doing the English translation! https://geraineon.dreamwidth.org/294659.html

This lunar new year eve, I am usually home in Singapore.

I am seven years old, and I wake up to the smell of roasted chilli, poached chicken, and cabbage soup.

There’s a bustle in the kitchen. My grandpa is stirring a pot, making his signature chilli paste that we all won’t eat our food without. My grandma is fussing over the roast duck, soy sauce chicken and whole fish and prawns.

I walk into the kitchen, in search of a snack. No matter how busy they are, they always have time to feed me.

Have some hae jor, beancurd rolls stuffed with pork, shrimp and chestnuts. Have a bit of everything.

My grandma calls me her ‘little baby mouse’, because I eat so slowly and carefully.

I watch TV until my cousins arrive. I put on my good clothes (but I have to be forced to do it). I greet everyone: first in Teochew, then Mandarin, then English.

Happy new year! Happy new year! Happy new year!

Eat, rub my tummy, smell everything, laugh and poke my grandpa’s tummy. I do that every day, but especially on lunar new year, he is especially jovial and happy. I tell him he looks like a fat Buddha, and he laughs.

If you hold your chopsticks that way, ah girl, you are going to move very far away from home. Very far away from me.

How right he was.

Lunar new years eve tonight. It’s the first time in a long time that I will probably spend it alone at home. I usually like to celebrate these “turnings of the seasons” but this year hits differently. two thoughts: 1. The world is in a state of flux, it feels unstable. 2. This year I submit my thesis. 2025 has hard work vibes #CNY #LNY #NewYear

Get ready, the pride of our Sculpture Court are about to take over on Saturday, February 1! Join us in welcoming the Year of the Snake with the exhilarating @jhuyonghanltd What's your favorite part of our Lunar New Year Celebration?

Learn more: https://bit.ly/402Kitl

@walters_museum #Museum #CNY #ChineseNewYear

Chinese New Year 50% toll discount on 27 to 28 Jan for Class 1 vehicles #chinesenewyear #chinesenewyear2025 #cny #cny2025 #news #toll #tolldiscounts #transport

https://soyacincau.com/2025/01/24/chinese-new-year-toll-discount-26-27-jan/