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Pre-CNY (Chinese New Year)
Friday, 27 January 2017 23:13It's the "last day of the year" again today. I'm in that part of the world where we celebrate 2 new years. The calendar New Year of 1-January, and the Chinese New Year (CNY) whenever it is according to the Lunar Calendar.
Officially, with the lunar new year tomorrow, starts the Year of the Rooster. I think some countries like Japan just start the new chinese zodiac according to the calendar new year.
This is the time of the year where I'm glad that I'm still single. All these red-packet/Lai-See/Hong-bao things... really a headache. Married people will give "red envelopes" with money inside to single people. It's a kind of, I don't know, good luck charm or talisman sort of thing. Then superiors also need to give these to subordinates, but then it gets tricky when you have a single superior and a married subordinate. If there are kids involved, then it's easy, it's just giving to the kid (like a seniority thing, the elder gives to the younger).
( yadda yadda yadda :-) )
Officially, with the lunar new year tomorrow, starts the Year of the Rooster. I think some countries like Japan just start the new chinese zodiac according to the calendar new year.
This is the time of the year where I'm glad that I'm still single. All these red-packet/Lai-See/Hong-bao things... really a headache. Married people will give "red envelopes" with money inside to single people. It's a kind of, I don't know, good luck charm or talisman sort of thing. Then superiors also need to give these to subordinates, but then it gets tricky when you have a single superior and a married subordinate. If there are kids involved, then it's easy, it's just giving to the kid (like a seniority thing, the elder gives to the younger).
( yadda yadda yadda :-) )
