Sunday 30 August 2009

Great Offer

Plane tickets are getting cheaper and cheaper everyday. I'd like to celebrate Chinese New Year in 2010 as it coincides with my spring vacation and I haven't celebrated it for 4 years now. The next time I'm free during CNY would be after graduation (CNY 2013).

There's a promotion going on and a return flight costs only 542 euro. I'm very tempted but I'm afraid the price will fall further. :/ I'm after all just a poor student and even 100 euro will mean I can shop quite a bit back home ^^

To buy or not to buy....

5 comments:

Esmee said...

If we go back during CNY, it would burnt a big hole in our pockets. Abt 40 ang pows to dish out to our nearest n dearest *sigh*

Btw, what's the going rate in M'sia ?

Seri Nyonya said...

Hey Esmee,

I'm not married yet so I'm probably going to get angpows instead ^^ We bought the tickets in the end. Dutchman's never experienced CNY before so it should be fun:D

Going rate for angpows or air tickets?

We paid 1084 euro for the two of us. Very, very cheap!

Esmee said...

The tix r indeed affordable :-) Wow, still get ang pows some more !

Going rate for ang pows lah !

Side note, can u still buy belachan in Utrecht ? I dont like the powdery stuff sold these days.

Seri Nyonya said...

Haha sorry la, I thought air tickets:D

Angpows vary but in general:

Random people/faraway relatives: RM2

Friends' children : RM5-RM20

Close relatives'children: RM40-RM300

What about SG?

Esmee said...

SG ah ... *sigh*

The big brood from my sis n bro expects no less than S$ 50 for those under 12yrs old. The older ones would remind me that life in SG is velly velly expensive hor - so I gotta give them S$ 100,00. Talk abt paying a bunch of subtle ransom !! :-(

When I was still working in SG, I gave my entire 13th month pay to my mom. She needs it to buy festive food n dishing out ang pows lor. Nowadays when we do visit her, she always say "no need", that she is happy we came back at all. But it's still a very expensive time for the elderly (no pension lah), so I give as much as I possibly can lor.

In my childhood, my dad gave us S$ 2,00 ang pows. How time has changed !