Chinese New Year

Speaking of tradition, i've been visiting my maternal grandparent on the first day of Chinese New Year for the past 22 years. 22 years is a amazing figure as far as i am concerned. There's so many things could happen in these 22 years and prevented my family from keeping this tradition. But no, we maintained a really good relationship with my extented family, and like my mum said, " We had sign the contract with grandpa, and this is the one n only request that grandpa ever requested to his son n daughter."

My grandpa is a noble and humble man. He love cooking, but love all of us even greater. He was a pig farm that ranked lowly in the society. He lived rather poorly along with 9 sons n daughter. But his believed in education changed everything and bear fruits in 20 years. All my uncles graduated with fancy degree and they are earning heaps n HEAPS~ of money. His vision and father love earned the respect and love from all of us. Non of his son would ever hesitate to bring him around or stay along with them for weeks. Letting ur own dad stay with you might seems to be a reasonable thing to do, but you would be AMAZED by the amount of ridiculous people will never let their parent step a single foot in their properties...

My maternal grandma deceased 2 years ago, and till today,my grandpa still cried when he heard songs that grandma liked. in front of the TV set, there's 2 lay-down chairs that belongs to grandpa and grandma. They used to sit there watch tv together and talk about anything in life. Now grandma had gone, the chair has been left empty. Grandpa reluctant to throw it away, and yet he is always full of tears when he realised there's no one sitting next to him while he was watching tv. currently granpa's eye has been slightly affected due to the crying....talk about the eternal love.....

anyway, this year is my first ever time that celebrated CNY in oversea. To tell the truth, i dont feel weird or homesick at all. Perhaps it's because hardly anyone know/care that it is Chinese New Year, so my brain process it as " no mandarin, no angpo, no gongxi gongxi gong xi ni = not chinese new year"

the interesting is , my town actually had a countdown firework for chinese new year. You might be wondering why do a foreign town had a countdown celeration. Its a rather simple answer: our mayor is a chinese descendent. Happy Chinese Year~