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[VNgal]

I just thought that since there was a thread for the Solar New Year, there should be one for the Lunar one as well (based on the nationality poll, there are quite a lot of Chinese/Asians here)

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?

[Shika]

I would be if I lived there. Which I wish I did badly.

[Onionhead Attacks]

LOL not at all... not even with the house cleaning xD We have a bunch of stuff to do... like grocery shopping before the markets get flooded.

[krisk]

I'M NOT EITHER 8Db

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

[VNgal]

My house is far from being clean.

I still have to repay all my debts (I've got way too much)

[Shika]

Well I take that back, if I did live there I'd probably be nowhere near ready.

[Cloud]

Bah. I have school, and my sister and her bf are in Taiwan celebrating new years with my parents.

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.

[Onionhead Attacks]

LOL, even if you're in an asian neighborhood, mostly everybody's scrambling at the last minute (We're last minute people). It's like Thanksgiving season... @___@ or dare I say... Christmas shopping... but for the asian!

Edited by Onionhead Attacks, 24 January 2009 - 12:47 AM.

[Shika]

I wish I lived in a Asain Neighborhood...Asian girls..<3 Hahaha.

[shadow_Uzumaki]

just curious, how do you say Happy Chinese New Year in either Mandarin or Cantonese?

[peanutbutter126]

Chinese (Cantonese)
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!

[BlackLightning]

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!

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.

[VNgal]

3 more days!!

I might even wear my cheongsam to school. People always think it's a kimono XD

[Onionhead Attacks]

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.

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.

[peanutbutter126]

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.

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

[Onionhead Attacks]

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

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.

[peanutbutter126]

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.

... 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~

[Cloud]

Superstition on cleaning near or on CNY.

Sweeps out the luck. >_<

[Onionhead Attacks]

You say that... yet my mom's going crazy with having to clean the house!

[Cloud]

You say that... yet my mom's going crazy with having to clean the house!

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.