Its nice to have New Year clothes and look good on this day isn’t it? But don’t you find it boring? Look, here’s my argument:
Bringing mandarin oranges to relative’s house has always been a tradition.. Do you recall that you have to say sweet things while passing the oranges to your elderly? When’s the last time you saw the relatives and imagine all the questions that will be popping out at you and you will know what I am saying about.
I can hardly mention any sweet things to my elderly, its never in my mind because I don’t practise it everyday, but all these sweet things do mean something to the elderly, it meant wishing of good luck, properity and health and when’s the last time I did the wish? It’s always in Chinese New Year. Children nowadays are so spoilt; will they even bother about this tradition in future?
Meeting the relatives and collecting red packets may seem to be a good thing, but look at the bad things; they ALWAYS ask the same question like "Where you study now?" "what course" "when graduate" "what you gona do after graduate?"… all these academic stuffs and I am not prepared to answer any of it..
And comes the very very embarrassing question; "When you bringing your girlfriend to show us?".. My answer: "I am gay" and that will be shocking until they might throw me out of the house and ban me from entering it anymore. Ofcourse I won’t reply that, I don’t have a girlfriend until they are gona propose me 1, as easy as that. Or you want to be my girlfriend?