Happy Year Of The Dog!!
Another Chinese lunar year has gone by.
Seeing how this is Spencer's year, he has decided to kick off a year of achievement milestones by becoming stinkier than ever, even though my mom gave him a bath on earlier today. No one in the family can explain his horrific body odor. My dad postulated that his shit must be still stuck to his fur. We'll have to take him to the vet to find out.
The evening started with a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at home, with an unusual selection of dishes based on homonyms for "year", "fortune", "health", and other good things in Chinese. Then we headed to a special Chinese New Year event at the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE). It's basically a stage with several different shows, and booths from big companies to small businesses selling things. Did I mention the smothering of Chinese tradition by commercialization through the ubiquitous shameless advertising and pandering...er, promotion?
Speaking of smothering, the crowd was horrific as expected. All the while, I was thinking how the avian flu virus would love to be here to join the festivities. But at least things could be worse. I could've been in Hong Kong Disneyland at this time of the year. What a fiasco! How could Disney not anticipate the thousands of people from Mainland China coming in? How could they miss the fact that Mainland Chinese have a longer holiday than Hongers? This oversight comes as a surprise, considering how Disney demonstrated their thorough understanding of Chinese people and culture in their feature-length animated film Mulan. (Yes, in the actual centuries-old story, there really was a small talking dragon with Robin Williams' type of humor!)
Despite this rocky start, I hope this year will bring good fortune to all (and me a job). We're all going to need it. Oh, and let's not forget health, since the avian flu is just around the corner.
All that has happened so far, we can certainly rule out this year as being the Year of the Mouse.
Seeing how this is Spencer's year, he has decided to kick off a year of achievement milestones by becoming stinkier than ever, even though my mom gave him a bath on earlier today. No one in the family can explain his horrific body odor. My dad postulated that his shit must be still stuck to his fur. We'll have to take him to the vet to find out.
The evening started with a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at home, with an unusual selection of dishes based on homonyms for "year", "fortune", "health", and other good things in Chinese. Then we headed to a special Chinese New Year event at the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE). It's basically a stage with several different shows, and booths from big companies to small businesses selling things. Did I mention the smothering of Chinese tradition by commercialization through the ubiquitous shameless advertising and pandering...er, promotion?
Speaking of smothering, the crowd was horrific as expected. All the while, I was thinking how the avian flu virus would love to be here to join the festivities. But at least things could be worse. I could've been in Hong Kong Disneyland at this time of the year. What a fiasco! How could Disney not anticipate the thousands of people from Mainland China coming in? How could they miss the fact that Mainland Chinese have a longer holiday than Hongers? This oversight comes as a surprise, considering how Disney demonstrated their thorough understanding of Chinese people and culture in their feature-length animated film Mulan. (Yes, in the actual centuries-old story, there really was a small talking dragon with Robin Williams' type of humor!)
Despite this rocky start, I hope this year will bring good fortune to all (and me a job). We're all going to need it. Oh, and let's not forget health, since the avian flu is just around the corner.
All that has happened so far, we can certainly rule out this year as being the Year of the Mouse.
posted by Cosmic Ocean at 1:33 AM
2 Comments:
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Yeah whatever, haha. Thanks, but I don't really need it. Although the WYSIWYG is convenient, I also need to be able to occasionally edit the HTML for things such as links that open in a new window.
Besides, it takes my computer longer to open a Word document than to open a browser window and click on the Blogger link button.
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