Chinese New Year is approaching yet i feel that the ambience is conspicuously absent. Is it due to the fact that it's been situated to close to the start of the Gregorian year? Sort of, somehow i do have the feeling that things for the Lunar New Year is a tad rushed. But like preceding years, the decor and pomp that have gone into Chinatown wasn't exactly short of expectations. Chinatown was practically awashed in a glitter of red, so as to speak. So what's the problem?
As usual, i buzzed around the interior of my head before i come up with this rejoinder. The ambience is absent because my heart has been emptied of the festive mood. I practically felt nothing... Not exactly nothing though. I was visibly irritated by the thick crowd present in Chinatown and peeved by the long column of people queuing for Bak Kwa. But it was disturbing for me where joy and excitement could be seen literally on the faces of others while i remained expressionless throughout.
I no longer feel thrilled at the idea of collecting red packets. Actually i was bothered by the prospective questions that some of relative might throw at me. Like, hey where's your girlfriend? -_-''' It is all because of the unhealthy culture pioneered by my cousins. Somehow surreptitiously, it became a standard procedure to bring along a girlfriend. I'm resisting attempts to assimilate me into this mindless culture. Sigh...
And then i was fleeced for my apparently unwise attempt to spruce up my coiffure... The first financially unsound decisions i embarked in the new year of 2005. Never mind about that. Tis the season to be jolly right. Seems, that businessmen attest that tis the season for their pockets to be jolly too...
I participated in Operation New Year Decor where i helped actively in putting up New Year Decor in my home. I'm amazed at how New Year paraphernalia has evolved. One of the centrepiece of the decor items included one wuith 3 flashing LED bulbs. ~Cool~
In advance...
Happy New Year! Pull Your Year!
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