Are You Ready for CNY?!?!
#1
Posted 19 January 2009 - 09:35 PM
With Chinese New Year only a week away, Chinatown is busy with preparations (obviously)
So the question is who here is ready for the Year of the Ox?
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Posted 19 January 2009 - 10:18 PM
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Posted 19 January 2009 - 10:27 PM
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#4
Posted 20 January 2009 - 01:52 AM
my mom's all over mine and my sister's cases about cleaning parts of the house but we keep on putting it off xDD at least our auntie and uncle's families are working on the food-- and my grandparents are already moved down here so THAT'S GOOD TOO 8D
we're gettin there X3
#6
Posted 24 January 2009 - 12:33 AM
#7
Posted 24 January 2009 - 12:45 AM
So I'm pretty much doing nothing to bring the new Ox year in. I'll definitely usher in the next Chinese new year though, as I'm saving money from my co-op job to go back to spend it with my parents.
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Posted 24 January 2009 - 12:45 AM
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Posted 24 January 2009 - 12:47 AM
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Posted 24 January 2009 - 02:05 AM
#11
Posted 24 January 2009 - 02:15 AM
Gung hay fat choy (a New Year greeting meaning, "May you become prosperous.")
Sun nien fai lok (meaning, "Happy new year")
Chinese (Mandarin)
Xin nian yu kuai
There ya go!
I'm Chinese but I'm not very informed about the New Year and stuff; I actually had to search up the date. It's on the same day as Australia Day! My family's not big on celebrations; we just spend the day like any other. Not much preparations, I suppose, so we're ready to go!
#12
Posted 24 January 2009 - 02:19 AM
I'm Chinese but I'm not very informed about the New Year and stuff; I actually had to search up the date. It's on the same day as Australia Day! My family's not big on celebrations; we just spend the day like any other. Not much preparations, I suppose, so we're ready to go!
I thought its Gong Xi Fat Choi
and yeah, its at the same day as Australian day, give or take a few days and also at the same week as my B'day.
I don't do anything special either, maybe I'll take Lisa to the night market at Belmore Park tonight and have a bit of fun since I don't have night shift today.
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#14
Posted 24 January 2009 - 03:34 AM
and yeah, its at the same day as Australian day, give or take a few days and also at the same week as my B'day.
I don't do anything special either, maybe I'll take Lisa to the night market at Belmore Park tonight and have a bit of fun since I don't have night shift today.
If you want the words, it's 恭喜發財which is pronounced as "Gong Hay Fat Choy" in Cantonese and as "Gong Xi Fa Cai" in Mandarin. If you want to literally say "Happy New Year", you can say 新年快樂 which is pronounced as "Xin Nian Kuai Le" in Mandarin.
And PB... Xin Nian Yu Kuai? I'm not quite sure what that means, I might have to ask Cloud, especially since I can't actually tell which characters they stand for with only the pinyin.
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#15
Posted 24 January 2009 - 03:56 AM
No idea - got it off a site I think I have a very, very vague idea but I've never heard anyone say it. Hmm... should go ask my dad. XD
#16
Posted 24 January 2009 - 05:03 AM
I just looked it up. It's 新年愉快 and yu kuai is another way to say happy, delighted, cheerful, etc. So I'm assuming that it is also another way to say Happy New Year though I don't hear it that way much. Then again I'm Cantonese and all I hear is in Cantonese so I can't say much xD.
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#17
Posted 24 January 2009 - 05:15 AM
... And all this time I thought you were Mandarin
I just asked my dad and that's what he said too. And I asked him about cleaning up and stuff and he just dismissed it. Lazy bum. So we're good to go! Bring on the Chinese New Year!
Only two more days where I am~
#18
Posted 24 January 2009 - 05:17 AM
Sweeps out the luck. >_<
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Posted 24 January 2009 - 05:23 AM
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#20
Posted 24 January 2009 - 05:31 AM
XDD.
I'm gonna give my parents a call tomorrow, since it would be the 26th over in Taiwan and wish them a happy new year.
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