Happy New Year! 新年快樂！
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elusivekAaaaannndddd....! Gong Hei Fat Choi! Good Health, Prosperity, and Luck!
Also am being bombarded by these following images on my WhatsApp/Wechat/whatever other messaging platform:
Some clever people will use a mixture of languages. The Mandarin (or, Putonghua) pronunciation of Ox/Cow is something like "Niu" so it sounds like New. So... Happy 牛 Year is like, Happy "New" Year or Happy "Cow" Year, take your pick.
However, I'm not having a good day so far because I didn't wash my hair. I'm a daily-wash-hair type of person. It is only very rare that I would not wash my hair (the day being particularly cold + I'm feeling lazy + my hair actually looks and feels alright). Today is neither. It's not particularly cold, I'm not feeling lazy, and my hair actually feels not clean. Guh! Hate that feeling!
That's because of good old superstition. You don't wash your hair during Chinese New Year. You don't sweep, you don't clean, you don't take out the trash during Chinese New Year. Oh, you don't buy new shoes during the Chinese New Year as well. There are certain foods that you eat (a vegetarian dish called 齋 (tchai) that consists of tofu, tofu skin, some sort of lettuce, a kind of fungus or veggie that looks like black hair (original name 發菜, but it sounds like 發財 "getting rich") and etc...
However, since my Mom herself is from a somewhat mixed cultural background herself, these superstitions are somewhat... twisted to fit all other cultures involved within that family. I can't think of an exact example, but say something like, you're not supposed to wash your hair during the period of Chinese New Year. We've just twisted it in such a way that, it's just on Chinese Year Year Day (Day 1) that we won't wash our hair.
I also did a no-no this morning LOL. I wanted to do some yoga, so before I spread out my yoga mat, I swept the floor because the cat spilled a lot of cat sand around. Yes, I've swept wealth away. Sorry. I don't want to be the richest person on earth, I just want to have enough, just like that cat sand box. There's enough in the box. That's just what I'll need in life. Sorry! So I swept the floor of my room. Big deal. I got an hour of yoga done. I consider that a major win. Yay.
So the plan today is... binge the new Elisa Lam documentary thing on Netflix (friend J said she wanted to watch, and I needed a reason to actually USE my subscription), Chinese New Year Lunch with the family (buffet somewhere), more binging in the afternoon... and rest of the day, apart from the usual dog walk and dinner and etc.
Hope everyone has a great weekend ahead!
Also am being bombarded by these following images on my WhatsApp/Wechat/whatever other messaging platform:
Some clever people will use a mixture of languages. The Mandarin (or, Putonghua) pronunciation of Ox/Cow is something like "Niu" so it sounds like New. So... Happy 牛 Year is like, Happy "New" Year or Happy "Cow" Year, take your pick.
However, I'm not having a good day so far because I didn't wash my hair. I'm a daily-wash-hair type of person. It is only very rare that I would not wash my hair (the day being particularly cold + I'm feeling lazy + my hair actually looks and feels alright). Today is neither. It's not particularly cold, I'm not feeling lazy, and my hair actually feels not clean. Guh! Hate that feeling!
That's because of good old superstition. You don't wash your hair during Chinese New Year. You don't sweep, you don't clean, you don't take out the trash during Chinese New Year. Oh, you don't buy new shoes during the Chinese New Year as well. There are certain foods that you eat (a vegetarian dish called 齋 (tchai) that consists of tofu, tofu skin, some sort of lettuce, a kind of fungus or veggie that looks like black hair (original name 發菜, but it sounds like 發財 "getting rich") and etc...
However, since my Mom herself is from a somewhat mixed cultural background herself, these superstitions are somewhat... twisted to fit all other cultures involved within that family. I can't think of an exact example, but say something like, you're not supposed to wash your hair during the period of Chinese New Year. We've just twisted it in such a way that, it's just on Chinese Year Year Day (Day 1) that we won't wash our hair.
I also did a no-no this morning LOL. I wanted to do some yoga, so before I spread out my yoga mat, I swept the floor because the cat spilled a lot of cat sand around. Yes, I've swept wealth away. Sorry. I don't want to be the richest person on earth, I just want to have enough, just like that cat sand box. There's enough in the box. That's just what I'll need in life. Sorry! So I swept the floor of my room. Big deal. I got an hour of yoga done. I consider that a major win. Yay.
So the plan today is... binge the new Elisa Lam documentary thing on Netflix (friend J said she wanted to watch, and I needed a reason to actually USE my subscription), Chinese New Year Lunch with the family (buffet somewhere), more binging in the afternoon... and rest of the day, apart from the usual dog walk and dinner and etc.
Hope everyone has a great weekend ahead!
