Chinese New Year

ichiban_noodles wrote:We're expecting our first child (a boy) next month. Needless to say, we're very excited to welcome the little monkey into our lives. It's going to be a great year! :D

Congrats, ichiban! Welcome to the forum as well!

Happy Chinese Year!!!
who is married here??should give me angpau ehehhe j/k :mrgreen:

Happy Chinese New Year to all of You from Germany !

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I was born in the monkey year haha

juliana_phang wrote:reunion dinner was GReAT!!!
but i hate the cleaning parT!
my house is in a mess now..
(^-^;;
how's everyone's diiner?

fun..!! good food and everyone talking..!! ureshii desu ne..~ :mrgreen:

happy new year to all.

:P

yeah, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! :applaud:

how do you celebrate your new year? why on the first full moon of the year? any idea? im a filipino, and we have here chinese community as well, in fact my sister's husband is a chinese. He never let the new year past without giving my family "tikoy" :crazy:

how do we spell happy new year in chinese? i wonder coz here it's kung hei fat choy.... :shakehead:

i seen the fireworks display of chinese people in the china town so nice... :love_eyes:

sammimatsu wrote:Happy Chinese Year!!!who is married here??should give me angpau ehehhe j/k :mrgreen:

Really? I just thought all older people was suppose to give out the "red packets" (lay-cee). BTW, what is angpau? I know I should know it, being chinese and all... :(

loriemay wrote:how do we spell happy new year in chinese? i wonder coz here it's kung hei fat choy.... :shakehead:

That is the Cantonese pronunciation of it. In the beginning of the thread there is a mandarin pronuciation of it as well.

niko2x wrote:Really? I just thought all older people was suppose to give out the "red packets" (lay-cee). BTW, what is angpau? I know I should know it, being chinese and all...

how i wish too.~~..hehe..then i'll have more angpau-s[red packets]
:mrgreen:
between what's lay ceE?
i thought red packet is known as angpau in chinese..
or maybe lay cee is another chinese dialect for angpau?

juliana_phang wrote:how i wish too.~~..hehe..then i'll have more angpau-s[red packets]
:mrgreen:
between what's lay ceE?
i thought red packet is known as angpau in chinese..
or maybe lay cee is another chinese dialect for angpau?

Lay-cee is the cantonese pronunciation of the red-packets (you know, thing with the money inside). Example below, do a scroll down and you will find the def of what we're talking about (what lang is angpau anyways? Maybe mandarin?)
http://www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/festival/newyear/newyear.html#Sweeping

niko2x wrote:Lay-cee is the cantonese pronunciation of the red-packets (you know, thing with the money inside). Example below, do a scroll down and you will find the def of what we're talking about (what lang is angpau anyways? Maybe mandarin?)
http://www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/festival/newyear/newyear.html#Sweeping

Heh, when I was a little kid decades ago, lay-see was my sole source of income... :hehe:

oH
now i remember
lolz..i call myself a chinese
=P
i only use "lai see" when i asked for angpau
example : lai see tao loi >> a way to ask angpau during cny

but i seldom hear ppl use "lai see" to refer to angpau in cantonese
angpau is know as "hungpau" in cantonese..direct translation means red packet
^^)

loriemay wrote:
hi there, i was born in may 6, 1982, so what's my sign? :rolleyes2:

DOG...whoof!! :mrgreen:
well i'm having steam boat too.....
now i had sore throat....haizz... :beaten: :sweat:

happy new year to ALL...
i am in the office...
AMERICAN company...does not appreciate chinese new year...:(

zbl wrote:happy new year to ALL...
i am in the office...
AMERICAN company...does not appreciate chinese new year...:(

Heh, our President and VP of the company are Chinese, but we're still workin' our butts off today. Oh well.

bmwracer, that sucks even more...!!
nothing against chinese, but i think having a chinese boss can be very stressful...

happy new years to all the chineses people

zbl wrote:nothing against chinese, but i think having a chinese boss can be very stressful...

You're right. I'm CHN and I don't even want to work for a chinese boss. I think I'd always feel I was underperforming. Now with regular americans, they can always know when to use a "coffee/cigarette break".