How do poeple spend Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year can be viewed as one of the long holidays in Singapore. Having two and a half days to celebrate including Chinese New Year's Eve, it's one of the busiest times for traditional Chinese as they will be preparing the usher in a happy lunar new year.

A traditional Chinese starts to prepare way before Chinese New Year. When the Chinese New Year Eve is here they would have their reunion dinner. On the first day of the New Year, A traditional Chinese will travel around the land visiting relatives and praying at temples. On the second day, traditional families will gather and go enjoy the festival that has been setup.

Well I'm Chinese, but not to the traditional sense. Therefore, some of the things I to do on Chinese New Year includes reading comics and manga, watching animation, clearing my room, sleeping, eating reunion dinner, etc..
What about others? Singapore is not just a 'traditional Chinese populated nation’; there are other people of different countries, race or religion who don't really celebrate Chinese New Year the traditional way. "Than what should I do with this long break?" they think to themselves.

I think some of the things they may do are to travel, for example foreign workers may take the chance to go back to their own country to visit their own relatives. Other locals may like to take the chance to get some good rest and relax at home, while some may think that is a good chance to catch up on things that they aren’t able to during work.

Well, the bottom line is: “everyone has there own ways of sending Chinese New Year, regardless who we are and where we come from. But no matter what we do, the important thing is that we enjoy this holiday to the fullest”.

So to everyone out there: have a Happy CNY and Best of Luck in this Year of the "RAT"!

Post is edited by Justin Wong.