THE Chinese New Year celebrations started rather sombrely in Penang on the first few days and exploded into an extravaganza of festive joy on:

• Saturday (Jan 31, 2009) when the state government open house was held along Lebuh Campbell. Read here for Star Online report "Cultural Extravaganza"
• Sunday (Feb 1, 2009) when the CNY Heritage and Culture Celebrations were held in the vicinity of Lebuh Armenian, Lebuh Aceh and Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling (read here for Star Online report, "An Explosion of Chinese culture" and blog inputs in Anything Goes here, Colours of my Heart here and Malaysia for All here. For more photos, click here for a flickr set of 40 by new2mac.
• Tuesday (Feb 3, 2009), the ninth day, would be Thni Kong Seh (Jade Emperor God's birthday). Read here and here for reports.
• Chap Goh Meh, the fifteenth and last day of the CNY celebrations falls on Monday, Feb 9, 2009.

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