Gong xi fa cai!

Everything else
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Happy Lunar New Year everyone! (Also known as “Chinese new year”.)

Interesting point of observation: I have lived 6 years in Beijing; 4 years in Hong Kong; and now 4 years in Singapore. But my favorite Chinese new years by far were those celebrated in New York City.

Gong xi fa cai!

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Kind of surprising to me: Celine Dion just gave a live New Year’s performance (of her song from Titanic) on China’s CCTV 4. Never seen a mainstream Western celebrity perform on the (mainland) Chinese New Year’s show before.

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And now, again on CCTV 4, we just got a Chinese canto-pop version of the Blackeyed Pea’s “Boom Boom Pow.” This is getting surreal.*

  • A little while back, I was regretting being a little too drunk to play Far Cry. But watching CCTV 4’s New Year’s Eve bash while drunk is fast becoming really fun.
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Will you guys keep her? Please!?!

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The way she’s looking at 45, you’re probably not going to have to twist my arm much.

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She looked great while she still sang in French!

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新年快樂！

I hope the restaurants re-open soon. I’m hungry. :(

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I work with a number of folks in Singapore but until recently really didn’t understand exactly how important Chinese New Year was. Gong xi fa cai!

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Two words: total shutdown.

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Cheese it, Vet. You forgot to switch accounts.

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Gong Xi, Gong Xi.

Happy Celine Dion to everyone!

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Yay! Red envelope for the kid. I’d better make one of those.

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And like the entire western hemisphere gets the week off.

There’s something to this communist shit, man.