Hear Me Roar: Happy Chinese New Year

With Valentine’s Day & the beginning of the Year of the Tiger on the Chinese Lunar calendar both falling on February 14, 2010, we’ve got two reasons to celebrate today!

For those who are unfamiliar with Chinese New Year customs, the Chinese New Year is celebrated quite differently than New Years Celebrations in Western cultures. Rather than focusing on glamorous, sparkly parties and scrambling to find someone to kiss at midnight, the Chinese New Year is a time for family.  It’s a time spent indoors with home-cooking and let’s not forget the endless drum of fireworks and firecrackers.  Nonstop. For a week.

This year in particular is the year of the tiger, an animal both feared and revered, symbolizing courage, passion, power, and royalty. A year of fearless passion and unpredictability.

The year of the Tiger is traditionally associated with massive changes and social upheaval. Therefore, 2010 is very likely to be a volatile one both on the world scene, as well as on a personal level. – Chinese Zodiac

Both a day for romance as well as a day to celebrate the Golden Tiger Year – Coincidence?  Perhaps, but the two go hand in hand if you ask me.

Congrats to all couples/love birds on finding that special someone.  I hope you revel in your bliss of love and let this holiday serve as a sweet reminder of how lucky you are to have found something as rare as love, something not to be taken for granted. Good luck to all boyfriends. Remember to be sentimental – Forget the Price Tag and think PRICELESS.

Whether you’re in love or you’re single, it doesn’t really matter this year. If you are single, you can vent by blowing up more fireworks and contributing more to this war zone Beijing becomes every Chinese New Year…yeah, on second thought, scratch that and just go to the Valentine’s Day Party @ Song Bar. If you’re lucky, cupid just might be meeting you there.

If you’re not up for mingling, then there’s always the option of treating yourself to the divine sin that’s officially allowed on Valentine’s Day: CHOCOLATE.  LumDimSum recommends Comptoirs de France, which is open throughout the New Year holidays!  Hooray!

Now I just need to find my ear plugs…

Happy New Year LumDimSum Friends!

I wish you all an abundance of good fortune, success, love, health, and happiness this year of the tiger.

新年快樂!

恭禧發財

With Love,

LumDimSum

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