Year of the Tiger
February 14th, 2010 | Categories: Life | 8 CommentsToday is my favorite holiday of the year, Chinese New Year!
As usual, I spent the past week cleaning and doing laundry in an effort to get rid of the “bad spirits” of the old year as I usher in the new one. I wanted to have a newly purchased outfit set aside to wear on the first day of the year, but time and money didn’t extend to a whole new outfit so a new shirt will have to do. And of course, I won’t be washing my hair today as it’s bad luck to wash your hair on the first day of the new year.
Since I’m away at school, I won’t be able to enjoy all the delicious foods and wonderful atmosphere at home. However, I’m managing to have an enjoyable time nonetheless. My friends and I have plans to go out to eat Chinese food and my Chinese class is arranging a dim sum lunch to celebrate. I haven’t had dim sum since the last time I was in Hong Kong during the summer of 2008 so I’m really excited as dim sum is so delicious!
I hope everyone has a great day whether or not Chinese New Year is celebrated. 恭禧发财，新年快乐！Happy Year of the Tiger!
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Hi, I'm Manda. I'm a college student studying communications and languages. I like to read, shop, bake, and travel. I have a tendency to listen to my favorite songs on repeat for hours on end. Sometimes I catch myself thinking in a language other than English. 
Happy Year of the Tiger!
…..I washed my hair today, crap XD
What exactly is Dim Sum? I’ve always wanted to try it but never known what makes it.
Dim sum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim_sum :P
Some of the best stuff on earth! Come to Hong Kong when I am there and Melody will take us out to dim sum ;)
I washed my hair today too… I didn’t know it was bad luck!
Happy Chinese New Year! I haven’t had dim sum in ages!
Happy New Year, Manda! :) I’m afraid my family is very Westernized so we don’t do anything apart from eating something special, and red pockets. I had no idea it was bad luck to wash your hair :P
Happy Chinese New Year! I hope you have a great time celebrating! :)
Happy Chinese New Year! :D And bumm… I washed my hair too. I didn’t wash it the day before, does that semi-count? haha
OH! But I did wear brand new socks! :D So not quite a whole new outfit, but partially. They were Valentine’s themed though…
Well, I assume they were red if they were V-Day themed, and red is a lucky color in Chinese culture ;)