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    Pre-Chinese New Year

    By Leighton | January 24, 2009

    Well, I am in Sibu now, I had an 8 hour bus ride yesterday from Miri. Sharon went to Sibu on Tuesday early in the morning, because her Great Grandmother died, so she went to the funeral. I stayed behind to feed the dog and finish up my work before Chinese New Year. I really missed her during those 4 days of not seeing her. Anyways, now I am in Sibu and we are preparing for the Chinese New Year celebration tonight. I went to buy some fireworks yesterday night because no one else bought any, so we are ready to light up tonight. I am excited. We are going to Sharon’s other grandma’s house to eat the dinner with them, then we are coming back to town to do the fireworks at 12 am tonight. I will take some pics and post them on my next post, which I will likely post tomorrow.

    Chinese New Year is according to the Lunar Calendar, so that’s why the date changes every year (a lunar month only has 29 days). Every few years they have to move it back a month by making it a 13 month year rather than a 12, so that it stays about January-February ish. Some of the traditions include giving ‘Hong Bao’ (red enevelopes with money inside) to family and friends, singing lots of songs about luck and money, wearing brand new clothes for the first week, going home to be with your family, and shooting off tons of fireworks. Good traditions if you ask me (except for being so obsessed with money haha). I will update tomorrow with what went down (or up!).

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