Sabrina Ko Photography » holiday http://www.sabrinako.com/blog Photos & Commentary Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:15:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Merry (Belated) Christmas! http://www.sabrinako.com/blog/2011/01/03/merry-belated-christmas/ http://www.sabrinako.com/blog/2011/01/03/merry-belated-christmas/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:06:15 +0000 Sabrina Ko http://www.sabrinako.com/blog/?p=732

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Relatives will stop by during the 15 days of the new year bringing candy, buns, and other food. Our Hong Kong relatives will usually call to wish us a Happy New Year. Children (defined as those not yet married) usually get red envelopes with money in it.

We don’t follow many of the traditions anymore, and instead have made up some of our own, like playing mahjong until the wee hours of the night. And unfortunately, the “children” don’t get red envelopes either, since being in our thirties and still single isn’t something that our parents think should be rewarded.

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Based on the minute of my birth, my lucky element is Wood so the Year of the Tiger is supposed to be a very good year for me. I’m looking forward to it. Hope everyone has a fantastic Year of the Tiger.

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They don’t enjoy doing their holiday photos, though. They have very little interest in the Christmas tree, so we could only get them to pose by the tree for their holiday photos if we hid a freeze-dried chicken breast in the tree. Hopefully, they won’t climb up on the tree looking for treats.

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]]> http://www.sabrinako.com/blog/2009/12/26/happy-holidays-from-the-fluffy-puppies/feed/ 0 Merry Christmas! http://www.sabrinako.com/blog/2009/12/25/merry-christmas/ http://www.sabrinako.com/blog/2009/12/25/merry-christmas/#comments Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:31:24 +0000 Sabrina Ko http://www.sabrinako.com/blog/?p=341 Merry Christmas! It’s been a quiet day for the Ko family. Dad took off to go to Hong Kong for my cousin’s wedding this morning, so we opened presents last night. I slept most of the day after taking Benadryl (that stuff knocks me out), ate leftover prime rib for dinner, and watched Julie & Julia with my sister and our good family friend H. It’s a really cute movie…I highly recommend it.

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Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! What did you do for Christmas?

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