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During Chinese New Year celebration, homes will be filled with many traditional food from home-made cookies and cakes to delicacies such as barbeque pork which are served to visiting relatives and friends. I remember as a child growing up, my brothers and sisters would gather around the dinning table where my mum would prepare all kinds of new year goodies. We would help out like shaping pineapple tarts and oiling the trays. One of our favourite local salad called 'Ah Char' involves tedious work in cutting up vegetables, squeezing out the juice and drying them before mixing spices into it and then storing them in jars in the fridge. It is served with prawn crackers. The pictures shows some of our favourite goodies from our family's favourite the pineapple tarts, bbq pork and kuih lapis (multi layers cake). Others are the sweet sticky cake and the 'Hwat Kuih'. These days, people tend to buy them for convenient rather than making them at home.

The first day of the Lunar New Year is traditionally a day to visit the temple, to offer our prayers to Buddha to wish that the new year will be filled with good fortune, happiness and prosperity. It is also a day to pay respect to our ancestors. The temple shown in the pictures are taken at Leong San See temple located at Race Course Road, Singapore.

Kung Hei Fat Choi. Gong Xi Fa Cai. Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Ox. I like to wish all a very Happy and Prosperous Lunar New Year. The Ox year traditionally brings stability and growth where patience and diligence pays off. Read Wikipedia about Chinese New Year - click

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. -Walker Evans

Summer in Sydney is a wonderful time walking in the parks by the water enjoying spectacular view of the Harbour Bridge. On the weekend I had the nice opportunity to shoot Michelle, her husband and her gorgeous boy at a park in Balmain.

As a child growing up, on the tenth day of each year in January, my mum would tell me that today is her wedding anniversary. So on this day, I like to dedicate it to my mum and dad by scanning some of their black and white wedding photos. The photos of my youthful looking mum of course is way before she ever met my dad.

The movie "The Beach" sets against a solitary beach paradise is one of my favourite movie. It is filmed entirely in Thailand at many popular locations that I have visited. From the bustling Bangkok Khao San Road area where backpackers from around the world converge to beautiful crystal clear water of Phi Phi Island. The movie gives you a sense of what a tropical bliss feels like, travelling through Thailand as backpackers, making new friends and enjoying the beautiful sandy beaches. I have backpacked around the southern islands of Thailand in 2007. Thailand has always been my favourite holiday destination, having visited many wonderful coastal towns and islands for many years ever since travel bug hit me. The Land of a thousand smiles offers friendly people, laid back culture, great food, beautiful sceneries and it is very inexpensive country to travel in. That were the reasons why I long to return to Thailand time and time again. The photos shown here were taken in the is...

There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don't be bitter because you can't record it. Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is! ~DeGriff

It's the New Year once again. It's another year of fresh start and new resolutions leaving the past year behind us. A friend said to me last night that New Year is just another day. I replied it may be just another year but to some it's a new year of hope and dreams. We constantly strive to accomplish something in our lives and the road is not usually smooth. There is many bumps along the way but that can only strengthen us. The New Year is a way for us to reflect on our past, learn from it, grow and aim for our goals for the future. It is a way of life. Without hope and dreams our life will just be an empty shell. New Year Eve fireworks over Sydney Harbour I spent the New Year eve at a party in a house in Neutral Bay overlooking Sydney Harbour. Two years ago I was at another party at a different location in Neutral Bay. Both locations provide spectacular view of the world famous fireworks. Neutral Bay is fortunate to be hilly and I shot the pictures on the open rooftop ter...