Are You Looking Forward To Chinese New Year?

[G Tan]

orchids:

I feel CNY is boring and a hassle.

Shops are also closed making the place seem so quiet.

Nowadays kids esp teenagers don't like CNY too.
They rather meet up with frens than go house visiting.

Can't wait for CNY to be over.

I agree, i dont like to go visiting also during CNY

[ksme]

I love the CNY break. CNY is the biggest festival for Chinese and nowadays, everyone are so busy so CNY is a good time to get whole family together and also see friends you rarely have time to meet.


CNY is less fun nowadays since more and more people don’t make the efforts to upkeep the tradition. I remember as kids, we loved the gatherings at my grandparents place where you see all your cousins and relatives and play together. With smaller families nowadays, the atmosphere is not the same.

[UncleLim]

Don’t like.


Tried to find a holiday to go on but failed in agreeing where…

CNY for me is tolerating relatives bull-shxttxng about how well their kids are doing. Oh… Ah Seng is talking to investors who are interested in putting money into his internet venture (still talking after 3 years). Ah Mei runs her own design agency (whatever that means), Ah Jie’s husband is high-flying ang mo, can you see my mix-blood grandson so handsome? .

In recent years, I just bring along my camera and take pictures everywhere so that I don’t have to engage in the conversations too much. Very tiring. But the pictures every year look about the same.

[Oppsgal]

Don’t like CNY. Too many things to clean, too many people running to stock up food at supermarket, air plane fare goes up and cannot afford to go anywhere outside Singapore, shops closing so no where to shopping or some stalls pricing higher for food, like some zhe cha stalls…


I find some tv shows boring…

[Mychildren]

Looking forward to the yummy Ba gwa, pineapple tarts and some other goodies.

Don’t like the visiting cause always asking and answering the same kind of questions.

I think the bigger malls are still open so still can shop shop around leisurely. Maybe there are New Year movies at the cinema…

[tankee]

no one play mahjong during CNY? :?

[Funz]

Have, my family. Definitely at least 2 tables of MJ at each family gathering over the CNY. Our family visiting is more like, everyone gather at relative 1’s hse and stay there the entire day. Next day, everyone who were present at relative 1’s hse will go to relative 2’s hse and again stay there the entire day, and so forth. Each uncle or aunty will take turns to host the gathering over the whole 15 days of CNY. And mahjong is the entertainment for the day. haha

[limlim]

Talking abt higher price of food… not sure if anyone here is aware that the seafood that you paid higher price for at wet market may not be really that fresh…


About few mths b4 CNY, the wholesaler will stock up the seafood and not release to the market… then just b4 CNY they release and make a killing… this is what I heard… hence, few mths b4 CNY you will find that the seafood getting lesser and some even no stock…

[PiggyLalala]

Yes, definitely. Looking forward to the annual spring cleaning, though stress but still i think it is good… haha… force me to clear some of the old and unwanted stuff… actually prefer the days leading to CNY… like now… esp…listening to the old CNY songs played by the radio stations.

Don’t mind the visiting too since i dont have many relatives to visit. Though we see some of the relatives only during CNY but it is good to see them, to know that everyone is healthy, especially the older folks.

[kittybank]

Looking forward to lighting fire crackers in my hometown.