Friday, January 20, 2012

get set

This year, Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year) 4709 - begins on Monday, January 23, 2012.
The celebration begins that day and continues for two weeks.

When I was a kid growing up in San Francisco, CNY was BIG.
Bigger n' Christmas, it was.
Really.

That surprises a lot of people who know me but did not grow up in households that emphasized the importance of this holiday.


Where I live now is quite a bit of a stone's throw from where the bulk of Chinese New Year festivities take place. Every year, this fact always has me feeling a bit out of the celebratory loop.

However.
That doesn't stop me.
From getting excited.
And all geared up and ready
for
some good ol' fashioned ...

Gung Hay Fot Choy



image from:
http://www.foreigners-in-china.com/chinese-new-year-symbols.html

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