The Chinese (Lunar) New Year is the biggest and most important festival in the Chinese calendar and millions (well, Singapore's population is around 4 million and 75% of it are Chinese) celebrate this festival.
This year the lunar new year is on Jan 29. Part of the new year preparation is this massive spring cleaning operation (which I should be doing instead of blogging). Spring cleaning is very important because we believe it will sweep away all the bad luck and start the year fresh and clean.