Roaring Chinese New Year Everyone!

There may be a little irony when I wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year on the last day of the event. However, I choose this day as I would like to tell you about my feelings and reflections that I have for this festive season. One can only say reflections at the end of an activity right? And thus I will say mine on the 15th day of Chinese New Year. 

Well this year, my lunar new year holidays has been one that has more work and less play . I think most of you out there must have felt the same and probably posted this on your blog , or shared it with friends. I have to do more work, as there are tests after the holidays and quite a heavy load of homework. *( homework > days of holidays )whereby the amount of homework is directly proportionate to the duration of holiday*. This is the formula in which every teacher adopts I guess?

Apart from studying, here are some other things that I did:

1) Rest Hard. I am sure all of you out there are dying for sleep. We students are very tired having to wake up early in the day to 'squeeze' up public transport. And, on particular days we have activities in school until evening. At home, we have to revise for tests, complete homeworks and projects. If the workload is a lot, we sleep very late at night, or extremely early in the morning. This cycle goes on and on. So when the holidays come, the first thing in my head is SLEEP!!

2) Eat Hard. Pineapple tarts, love letters, roasted meat, steamboat, 'yu sheng' and all the goodies only make my mouth water. How can one get past Chinese New Year without eating all these goodies? It is once a year that one gets to eat all these goodies! So what are we waiting for? Eat!

3) Visit relatives. It is the time of the year that family members go to each others' house and have reunion dinner. This is a time to meet up and strengthen the bonds with one another and to update each other on what is happening in their lives. Some may have a whale of a time but some will have to be interrogated. Recent news have highlighted that old folks love to ask  personal questions about their children's marital satus and more. And these people get very frustrated that they go overseas to escape these irritating question. Please spare them a thought??

4) Count hard! This is the favourite time of the year for many because of the red packets that they will receive. However, the more we want, the less we will get because we may have set our expectations too high! So don't be greedy!!

In conclusion, my lunar new year holidays was one that was filled with laughter, joy, work and food!!!! I have enjoyed myself very much.