Friday, February 02, 2007
Of all the happy holidays in Singapore, the one I have a real love-hate relationship is probably Chinese New Year.
I love the super-long holiday and the legitimacy to stay up the whole night under the context of 守岁. The Chinese believe (as always they believe in everything...) that the longer one stays up during the night one's parents will enjoy a longer life expectancy. This means I can kill two birds with one stone.
What I detest about Chinese New Year are the SONGS. Damn it, all renditions of the songs sound similar to one another. There's always drums and gongs: "tok tok chiang", followed by electronic drum beats and fake zither and synthesised sounds. Uugh. Everywhere, the same damn thing seems to be played. At least Christmas songs are re-intepreted, say in jazz, or pop and so on.
Seriously I pity those people working in the retail outlets. They have to bear this shit all day long at least for a month before the festivities, and a few weeks after the holidays pass.
¶ 2/02/2007 01:05:00 am I love the super-long holiday and the legitimacy to stay up the whole night under the context of 守岁. The Chinese believe (as always they believe in everything...) that the longer one stays up during the night one's parents will enjoy a longer life expectancy. This means I can kill two birds with one stone.
What I detest about Chinese New Year are the SONGS. Damn it, all renditions of the songs sound similar to one another. There's always drums and gongs: "tok tok chiang", followed by electronic drum beats and fake zither and synthesised sounds. Uugh. Everywhere, the same damn thing seems to be played. At least Christmas songs are re-intepreted, say in jazz, or pop and so on.
Seriously I pity those people working in the retail outlets. They have to bear this shit all day long at least for a month before the festivities, and a few weeks after the holidays pass.
