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Let’s wish and do good things

Hey folks, I wish all of you have a WONDERFUL and MERRY Chinese New Year. I wish I my family surrounds me, but they are thousand miles away from me. But they are always in my heart. As everyone else, I’d prefer celebrating the Chinese New Year with joy and happiness, and with my family around me. Since I’m physically remote from my family, I still could celebrate and spend the day with joy and happiness.

But…. there are some people out there who can’t celebrate the day with joy and happiness. Not because they don’t want to, but the conditions make them hard to spend the day with lots of smile and laughters. I stumbled upon someone’s blog who wrote about a family “tragedy” and mystery. A wife and a mother who has been “sick” with unknown cause for few months. She had several seizures and other symptoms. Doctors have tried so many tests and diagnosa — MRI, CT Scan, blood tests, etc. you name it — but still can’t figure out what’s wrong the lady. I think it’s worse if you see someone who you love and dear so much sick without knowing what causes the symptoms etc. At the same time you want to “cure” her but you can’t since you don’t know how (normally once a doctor found out what is the cause/disease, he’d know what next steps should be taken). More details about the conditions please click this.

So, I hope we all could do something good at least for today — the welcoming day of the Year of Ox. Let’s all pray and wish for her health. Let’s wish that the family could have bright and happy life ahead.

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Gong Xi Fa Chai

WISHING EVERYONE A

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!

May the Year of Ox would bring you more happiness, joy, and prosperity!!! 🙂


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Superstitions on CNY

The Chinese taboos are:

  1. No cleaning — especially sweeping the floors; as this means you sweep away the good fortune in the whole year
  2. No crying — it brings bad luck to your family
  3. Wearing red — as red is a color of prosperity & happiness
  4. Shooting off the firecrackers — to expel the demons and also to welcome a new year
  5. I can’t think of anymore… any inputs????

Yeah… that’s all I can think of….. if you have something else to put in the list, feel free to write a comment 🙂

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!

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Gong Xi Ni!!!!!!

This is sooooo over:

Now, let’s welcome The Rat:

So I……

May the year of Rat brings you MORE prosperity and happiness. GONG XI NI (Mandarin), GIONG HI (Hokkian), GONG HEI (Canto), HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR (obviously English!)!!!!! 😀

P.S. Where is my share of red pockets? 😛

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Chinese New Year

Gong Xi Fa Chai!

Chinese New Year is around the corner!!! It’s only a few weeks ahead!!!! I remember, when I was little Chinese New Year (CNY) was my favorite day of the year. I even put it before X’mas (indeed, my family doesn’t celebrate X’mas), New Year, and my own Birthday! CNY was the day that I’d been waiting for!!! 😀 I love everything about it: the (new) clothes, clean house, nice FOODS, and most of all: the red pocket!

I got excited when me and my family started to hunt the treasure! Hehehe… please don’t translate that literally, even though I meant it hahhahahha 😛 At the end of the day, me and my brother would count our income and compare it to each other to see who’ve got the most… And I would be very happy if it was me, but sad and envious if it wasn’t me.

But CNY isn’t about red pocket per se. However I see this act of giving red pocket is a good one, it is the time to be generous, especially to those who are dear to you. CNY gives you a gate to open your door to your relos, and it’s time for gathering and catching up with each other. It is a good time to strengthen the relationships between your relos, and Chinese do value family-ship.

However, getting older and (hopefully wiser), I get less excited about the red pocket. Don’t get me wrong — it doesn’t mean that I don’t like it anymore, I still do! Seriously, who doesn’t like money? 😛 I mean, without money how on earth could I survive?! However, the value of the money is not the importance to me. I don’t really care how much the money inside the pocket you give to me, as long as you have the heart to give it to me, well I’d take it with a smile in my heart and thank you. Maybe I’ve changed because now I’m able to earn my money, I’m not as reliant as before.. When I was little, I had to strive to get my Dad buy me something, since my Dad doesn’t like us to spend money too much, esp on things that we don’t really need. I admire that of him.

Honestly, due to this festival, I miss my family more…. especially today when I passed by an oriental shop and looked at the CNY candies and ornaments, I really wished that I was with my family. It’s really an attachment, and I did realise it coming. Feeling is impermanent, as it went away, I let it go 🙂

Lately I feel happier and lighter. I feel more carefree…. Hope y’all feel the same! Be happy! 🙂

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