I am getting married soon and I am incredibly excited. There are so many great things that I could talk about in terms of marriage, but there is one thing that makes it a little bittersweet and that is Chinese New Year.
Don't get me wrong; I love CNY and ultimately I'll be fine about it, but ... wow. What a setup my people have created.
"Oh here's a great idea: Let's give all the kids money in red envelopes as a celebration of the Lunar New Year."
Beware little buddy. It seems sweet now, but as a man who's in the midst of his last Chinese New Year on the receiving end, I must warn you, it's not all its cracked up to be. Yeah its fun to give a dollar to little toddlers, but it gets less fun when they get older.
Not so cute anymore, huh?
Wait until you get judged for not giving them enough money to buy a Playstation 11. Or when your relatives, who you haven't seen since last CNY, show up to your house with 88 little ones acting like zombies. Instead of unintelligible mumbling, they groan "gooong heeey faaatt choyyyy." Then, you'll wish you had just said no to all that "free" money. You know that's why there's an overpopulation problem in China, right? Everyone is trying to make their money back. There really is no such thing as a free lunch.
So kids, when grandma comes up to you with that red envelope, run for your future's sake and don't look back.
4 comments:
hahaha.. "everyone is trying to make their money back..."
excellent, another reason to be hak hay
you know that when you get married you stop receiving envelopes and start giving them out, right?
actually the one child law has been too effective and if a couple are both only children they are allowed to have 2 children to replace themselves. how's that for my longest comment ever?
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