It is Chinese New Year! Today is the 17th, the last night of the Chinese Lunar Year. Early in the morning we packed some of the things from my apartment and did a pseudo-cleaning, then came back to Yan-Shih's and spent some time cleaning her dining room.
The highlight was at dinnertime when Yan-Shih, myself and her mom sat down to a rather big feast. Her mom had prepared a decent amount of seafood for us to eat, including some raw fish, something her mom knew I love. She also bought me a few beers, since she also knew I can't stand rice wine -- bad experience in Zhongshan, ask Ian if you want the details.
With dinner over Yan-Shih and I sat down to watch a movie, and near the end started to hear the fireworks. In a fully unorganized way, right at midnight, thousands (or so it seemed, but I would be surprised) of fireworks went into the air. For ten minutes nothing could be heard but "boom boom baaaaam" -- and until three in the morning the sparatic "boooom" could be heard.
Looking back I enjoyed my first Lunar New Year's Eve, including the fact that it went out with a very literal "bang."
This entry is from my journal and was written on Feb. 17, 2007. It's been tagged with Notes on Life. There have been 0 comments so far.