Happy Chinese New Year
Today my family celebrated the Chinese New Year. My son received a bunch of red envelopes containing cash. People in China get around ten days vacation in a row, borrowing some weekend days from the weeks prior to and after the New Year. The borrowing and pooling of weekend days are systematically organized and promoted by the government and honored by almost all businesses.
I am just glad it is Sunday so I don’t have to work while everybody else celebrates and kicks back. It is also neat to have morning to noon in the States equates to Chinese New Year’s Eve in China and afternoon equates to Chinese New Year.
The year of 2007 is finally & officially here for >= 1.3 billion Chinese. It is the year of pig. Here is a smiling one:
