This Lunar New Year we did fewer rounds as compared to the past. Maybe because some of our relatives chose to come to our place instead, so we went to fewer places. Honestly, Lunar New Year has become all too routine for me. It is no longer the excitement of young where this is the period to show off all your gold and sparkling jewellery, your new clothes and new shoes, and receive money. The festival has now become so mundane.
All the more since well-meaning people say they hope I can find someone soon (yeah, yeah! As is always the case!), and my father, has to add fuel to the fire by telling everyone to wish I can be married off soon! Now who is the one desperate for me to marry off? And they think I am the one who is desperate?!
Christmas, on the other hand, is something else altogether. Somehow Christmas time is still filled with Christmas spirit and spreading of cheer. Each time Christmas comes along, I still feel good, that there is something in the air that make me believe miracles still happen. Maybe after I have my own family, Christmas is a tradition I will keep and celebrate more on, but Lunar New Year will be just another run-of-the-mill celebration (although my parents will have a fit if they know).
Besides the usual spring cleaning, extended family gatherings, visiting, and the usual greetings, nothing much was really felt for Lunar New Year. Maybe because of my own ethnic origin, I should feel something or upkeep the tradition, but then again, I am not exactly the very traditional kind of girl as compared to the rest of my family members. So Christmas means more to me than Lunar New Year (although it is a good chance to catch up with people you will otherwise see just once a year).
And I thought finally I can wear a tube dress out together with the rest of my family members, but my mum made me wear straps as she was afraid the dress may not hold up properly. :-( Why would it be a tube dress if it is not designed to be held up without straps?! If it falls so easily, it defeats the entire purpose, is it not? Why get that for me if she never intended for me to wear it that way in the first place?
0 comments:
Post a Comment