Re: Today is the first day of notorious Korea/Japan/China new year
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LOL, I guess that pretty much some up everything if you are going to a family reunion and you have nothing to show-off.
Been there myself, but I was not affected by it, I just take everyone's advise and get out and build my own future. Anyways, belated Chinese New year, and btw, it doesn't have any significant effect on the market price. It's celebrated here in my country but I'm not ethnic Chinese. The closest I got to celebrating it is eating fried nian gao but even that we didn't do this year. I'm also the laggard in parties. I just listen to the advice I receive, most seem nice anyway. I just try not to feel bad, I'm lucky my family tend to be unpretentious.
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The thing is getting too ridiculous when we begin to see both young boy and girl avoiding it like a plague, boy hiring freelance to impress on the party, or girl hiring boy to pretend the the relationship. The entire scene look faking just to impress, theyll even fake their wealth status by spending on cars and dressing up in a gentlemen
/lady suit. Whats the point to trying so hard. Certainly I wouldnt hope the same goes for Christmas.
Wow, they also hire fake boy/girlfriends there too? Do they also hire fake parents? I thought that was only a Japanese thing.