Saturday, January 24, 2009!
HandWritten on; 5:44 AM
Here comes the festive season again. Very very soon its Chinese New Year. From my sample size of 10, research extrpolates that it is a time where half of the people in the world look forward to it and half of the world find it boring. Why? To some its a time where they could catch up with their relatives again, some look forward to it because its a time to receive lotsa hongbaos or some look forward to it because they can gamble. Others find it a dread to do visitation, negotiate their way out of the jam in the most congested bridge in Singapore called the Causeway or some just hate springcleaning.
Well, no matter what reasons you like or do not like Chinese New Year, it is being celebrated all over the world by more than 1 billion chinese. Here's Chinese New Year from my perspective:
1) An Opportunity to Bring Back Love to Oour Family
Chinese New Year is perhaps the most busy time in a family. There's so much spring cleaning, things to be bought and other preparation of the house so that our home can be in tip top condition when our relatives visits. With so much work to be done at home, we could all help our parents. Doing our long overdue packing of our own room and chipping with housework is something that Mum would appreciate. :)
2) Be a Good Host
This is perhaps the time of the year where you have most visitors to your home. With most visitors we only see once a year, their impression that they have of us this season is going to last a long time. How we could be a good host? Perhaps when we notice a visitor that we are not really familiar alone at the corner of our house, we could take the step of faith to go forward to initiate the conversation with them so that they can feel comfortable at our home.
3) Honouring Elders
Again you don't meet your relatives everyday. Of course you need to honour our elders everyday but during Chinese New Year when we go for visitations, it is especially important that we honour and bless our elders in words. One way we can honour our elders is that we could make an effort to serve them. Instead of taking our food first we could ensure that our elders are served before we eat.
Anyway, enjoy your new year and happy holidays!
