XING NIAN KUAI LE

Enjoy your long weekend and GONG XI FA CAI. Will be right back after I revel in the festivities.

The euphoria that comes with all seasons and celebrations sometimes fade with time. I like celebrations, always have. I love christmas, new year, easter, valentine’s, national day, and any other single big event that is an excuse to getintheswing of things. Have I introduced myself? I am a perpetual sucker for propaganda: and songs, goodies, food, paraphernalia and anything associated with thefestiveseason can easily induce Euphoria and GoodMoods.

As with the issue of the passing of time, the issue of fadingcultures has long been exhausted and talked about. We no longer celebrate or spend a festive season with much gusto, I’ll admit that.

But I hope to believe that it’s all about the psyche. And I am so going to wear something new, eat bah kwa, belt out karaoke-style new year songs in town (in the embarrassment of my friends and whoever is unlucky enough to meet me over the weekend). It’s fun to be cheesy. And it’s fun to be unhip and ohsotraditional during chinese new year.