****HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!!!****
**XIN NIAN KUAI LE!!!**
I absolutely love Chinese New Year. My favorite time of the year! Loads of goodies to eat. Ang-pows to collect. And those Chinese New Year songs. He Xing Nian Zhu Xing Nian, Xing Nian Ah Nian Lian Nian... Whoever wrote these songs should be awarded a Nobel prize. These songs are so infectious that every time I hear these songs, I feel like singing and dancing along with it. I have been singing Chinese New Year songs at home recently, only to have my sisters look at me as if I had gone bonkers. But, I am just trying to infect everybody with the Chinese New Year spirit! It is absolutely the most uplifting period of the year.
Nevertheless, this must have been the most unprepared Chinese New Year in my 19-20 years of my life. Every Chinese New Year, I would buy new clothes like a few months earlier and await for the day to come when I can wear my new clothes. It is this silent anticipation that makes Chinese New Year all the more worth waiting for! But this year, I am so so unprepared. For one thing, I did not have time to buy my New Year clothes, thanks to my endless projects and presentations. That's the life of a smoothie for you. =( I went to town today. I think the whole of Singapore must have been out today. It was P-A-C-K-E-D! I think I must have said a hundred Excuse Me, Excuse Me. Sigh! Murphy's Law didn't help either. What can go wrong will go wrong. Everytime you look for clothes at the last minute, you will never be able to find any. Honest. This is always the case. I have no time to go town again. Tomorrow, I still have to go to school for project meeting and make-up Analytical Skills class. And guess what? AS is until 5pm. Just because John Williams is an Ang-moh, his poor students are unable to celebrate Chinese New Year. Sob, sob.
Anyway, I am so excited about Chinese New Year! Counting down now... Xin Nian Kuai Le, once again!