Chinese New Year vs. Valentine’s Day

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 11:17 PM PST

Valentine's Day, Year of the Tiger

For the first time in my life, the Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day fell on the same day, February 14, 2010.

The question of “Do you celebrate with family or girlfriend on the day?” never popped in my mind. Family always has the highest priority then only followed by girlfriend.

Not that I don’t love my girlfriend enough but.. well, she understands it and we will celebrate later. You see, that’s why I love her so much!

“If you are in love, everyday is a valentine’s day.”

(only applies when your other partner agrees too)

After all, why can’t celebrate both Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day at the same day? I don’t see any conflicts between two.

For me, the Valentine’s Day is the “make money day” for businessman. They came out all kinds of so-called special valentine’s promotions to steal money from your pocket.

For my family and I, the biggest day of Chinese New Year is the reunion dinner on CNY’s eve. Every family member must sit together and have the steamboat dinner.

The Chinese New Year day is the vegetarian day. Mom will cook one vegetarian dish and one dessert, and that’s our meal for the whole day. We spent the 1st day of CNY with family and we usually don’t go out on the day.

A peaceful day…

I will have old friends gatherings during CNY too~