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Year of the Rabbit
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 3:13AM Happy Chinese New Year! 卯
It's the Year of the Rabbit. How will you celebrate?
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 3:13AM
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I'll be at 3 Brother from China restaurant with my Chinese class and professor - probably one of the most jovial people I know.
Thanks, I am born in the year of the rabbit and am a Chinese Singaporean. Btw Nathaniel, you are born in the year of the Horse right?
As a proud Rat I'll be pushing Rabbits in rivers, which is exactly what the Rat did to the Rabbit when they were riding the Ox during the "who's going to reach the Emperor first" contest :P
Watching Donnie Darko
To be politically correct, it's Lunar New Year!! (total Chinese hater!)
Vietnamese people celebrate the New Year with food offerings to our deceased ancestors leading up to and after the New Year. Traditionally in my family, the food is vegetarian and lots of fruit and 'festive' treats are also offered. It's to wish us good luck for the New Year.
For example, there's a common phrase in Vietnamese: Cau Dua Du Sai, which means "Wishing Us Enough To Spend"
But individually, the words can be different fruits. 'Cau' is short for 'Man Cau' which is Custard Apple. 'Dua' is Coconut. 'Du' is Paw Paw and 'Sai' is similar to 'Soai' which is Mango.
So offering some or all of these fruits or any other fruits with positive meanings, is an act of wishing for good luck.
We also wish luck to our elder relatives and are given red packed (with money) in return... I got $170 this year... Not my best year though :) I've gotten up to $300 before.
Love the pic of Inland Empire. Still one of my favorite Lynch's.....if just for 'the face'.
Anthony Mai - I like respecting the deceased and the elderly and the fact that your family uses vegetarian dishes (or whatever) but I hope the food is eaten in the end because not all of it is vegetarian (I assume) and I'd hate to know that people kill animals only to leave them at some place in honor of the dead. It wouldn't only be sad, but ironic too.
Mmm, the Alex Forrest's way? I can't stand rabbits, I don't know why and Alice in Wonderland didn't help. Even though he didn't play the rabbit ,I would've liked to be a hunter for once in my life, and shoot Johnny Depp's character in the forehead. Sorry about the rambling, it's just that I've seen again a clip of that infamous dance at the end...
well, I don't think I know many rabbits I really like so why celebrate...?
@Bluemoon02 thank u 4 giving me a clue at how old Nathaniel is... ;-)
Astrology... it's so weird... I'm a rooster in Chinese astrology, and an aries = ram in "traditional astrology" (and I'm kind of a "sucker" for "traditional" astrology actually)... both very alpha male animals.... and star signs... and I'm quite the opposite of the alpha male in real life... my life would be happier if I was I think... and I know (of) quite a few Arian borns at least who are not really the typical alpha male... strange...
@James T - No, it's all vegetarian and we eat it afterwards!! ;)
@James T - But if you're talking about other families, they do cook meat and the majority of the food is eaten. No different to having leftovers and throwing it out is anybody's decision.
Omg, that picture is scarier than Donnie Darko.