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NAME: 大路痴
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* A Tablet
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* A car
* A diving license
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
人日
Just realised today is the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and according to the Chinese, it is known as 'Ren Ri' (People's day). Since young, mum had been telling me that Ren Ri is the day when everyone 'supposedly' turn another year older. Sounds ridiculous to me... i mean i just celebrated my birthday not too long ago and if today is everyone's birthday, that means i had just added 2 more years to my age instead of one within a year. So logically speaking, that means my mum's actual age should be 110 by now! Haha... Lame right? My curiosity got the better of me and so i decided to do a google search online and this is what i found out:
"The seventh day of the first month - the day of man (ren ri) The seventh day of the first month is the day of man. According to the ancient writings of Tung Fang So, censor to the Emperor Wudi under the Han dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD), the first eight days of the year are dedicated respectively to the rooster, dog, pig, sheep, bull, horse, man and grain. If a ewe has lambs on the day of sheep (fourth), her offspring will be exemplary… provided that the day is sunny. So it's on this day of the year that all Chinese change their age at the same time, rather than on their birthday. In China when a child is born it is already one year old and if it is born during the twelfth month, it will be two years old on the seventh day of the first month - even though it has only been in the world for a month! It is said that if the weather is clear and sunny on that day, there will be many births in the coming year."
Hmm... that means if you live in the desert, you will have many offsprings since the possibility of the weather being clear and sunny on that day is very high. Then the pityful mum will have a torturous time having babies one after another, unable to prevent her poor boobs and belly from sagging even further after each birth. Soon, the desert will be swarm with women trying to have babies, hoping that this will be the place where their wishes will be granted. Then again, which sane person will want to live in a desert or give birth there right? Forget it, i am just talking crap. Haha...
Anyway, we traditionally celebrate Ren Ri with a unique chinese dish called 'Lau Hei' (Yu sheng) or what i call it, 'The Chinese Rojak' because of the different ingredients that went into the mixture.
This is what Dad bought back just now. Yu sheng was intended to be colourful, tasty and symbolically auspicious for the chinese. Combining the raw slices of salmon (I wonder did they put it in cos i did not see any!) with a mixture of ingredients including shredded carrots, turnips, ginger, jellyfish, deep-fried pieces of flour and sweet-sour sauce (mum even added mandarin orange inside! -_-"'), each of us will then tossed it using chopsticks with cries of "_____"(just fill in the blanks with whatever auspicious word), the higher the better. To me, it was more of the fun associated with the occasion rather than a tradition thing.
8 more days before Chinese New Year offically ends and this is my Ang Bao collections thus far:
Hmm... Not a lot and not little either. Basically it is the same amount almost every year: $200-$300. However, surprise surprise! My uncle for some reason passed $1000 to my mum to distribute to me and my brother this year, not including the $20 bucks he gave us when we visited him. But mum 'kope' $100 from each of us to compensate 'her loss' so we only had $400 each instead. But still, i got $600+ altogether thanks to my uncle's generosity. *jumps up and down* Time for shopping spree! Yeah~ No wait, i think i better use it for my next month expenses. Survival is more important now. Sigh~ *Poof! Dreams disappear yet again~* *PS: My uncle invited us to his house for steamboat tomorrow. One, Two, Three, Four, Five. That will be the fifth time i will be having steamboat this month! Thank god i just skipped one this week, otherwise it will be six! Well, i guess i must turn up no matter what, otherwise i will be perceived as someone who takes money and run. I am going to suffer from 'steambophia' soon. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Updated 25/2/07: Just came back from my uncle's place. Unexpectedly, he changed it to a buffet spread. Heng~Turns out it was actually an advance bday celebration for my nephew (yes, another bday celebration) which my uncle tried to keep it from us. (maybe he does not want my mum to spend extra money but nevertheless, my mum still gave my nephew an ang bao anyway) Guess what, my uncle gave us another ang bao with 20 bucks inside even though we told him that we already received it last week. Hard to believe that there are such generous person out there? Well, that person happens to be my uncle :)
Posted by 大路痴
@ 11:43 PM
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