Saturday, February 17, 2007

on staying up the night on Chinese New Year Eve...

yeaps, it's a tradition called 守岁。 Unfortunately, not many youngsters see the importance of keeping such a tradition anymore.* haha, was pretty amused by what my friend reported overhearing a group of teenagers saying about this tradition at the coffee-shop the other day.


Apparently the young ones were saying to one another they don't do 守岁 these days, as in they don't see the point in it. I think my friend heard some comments like “为何要守岁了?要守的话,我父母他们可以自己守嘛。。。”


I just laughed out loud when I heard that liner.^ It's kinda sad, that the Chinese traditional values are being properly taught these days anymore. Yea, yea, I know people gonna accuse me of being an old fogey and be fuddy-duddy about keeping out-dated and out-moded practices.


Still, I believe more in the thoughts in behind keeping such gestures and traditions alive.


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* Yes, using my 30 years of existence, I can pronounce this statement solemnly and with gravitas... NOT! :D


^ Yea, also because partly of what my friend followed up with his own comments, which goes:


"Nowadays ah, with this kinda "gin nah" around ah, think the parents also very hard to be long-lived ah..." "Bway tah han" man!

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