End of the Chinese New Year

In our terms, the Chinese New Year celebrations are over once the holiday for it is over. So it supposedly ended in three days, and after that we have our examinations and the all too common piles of homework. Then during Chinese New Year, the time where we were supposed to relax, was not entirely relaxing. This combination of stress seems to have made us lose sight of what Chinese New Year really is.

Let us remind ourselves that Chinese New Year is 15 days, and the last day is quite something to celebrate, with all your family. For me, on that day, well, my father's car ran out of gas. Well, that certainly puts a dampener on the day right? On the contrary. It was my first experience of a car breakdown. My father took a taxi to the nearest petrol station to get some petrol and by the time he returned, the thing that you put some distance away from the car to show that your car has broken down, was knocked down but fortunately, I am not quite dead yet, nor am I in a hospital. I realised that if you wanted to buy petrol in a can, you have to show your IC, as they are afraid, I think, that you might use the petrol to set something blaze. The next thing I realised that the petrol one buys at the station, is actually pink in clolour. This is to distinguish it from water, as it is colourless by nature, so that you do not pour this over the fire in an attempt to extinguish it. So after the car breakdown incident, we went for a nice end of new year lunch and that is the end of the Chinese New Year.

Bless be to us all.