*sigh* I miss Shanghai New Years so much… it just doesn’t compare in New York. We had those tube things that threw streamers into the air, but no fireworks… those are illegal here right? I was mildly entertained by throwing those little poppers onto the ground, but nothing beats setting off your own cacaphonia of lights (purchased for under 100 kuai!). We used to do it from the rooftop of our building near Huai Hai Lu… sometimes we’d put music to it too and pretend it was like some Disney Magical Show.
Here we just walked around Mott Street and saw some teenagers lion dance for… what I’m guessing was money from participating restaurants. And then just when some Chinese concert was getting started in Chinatown, festivities were cut short because it started to rain.
I did get to eat some soup dumplings… I mean Xiao Long Bao(!!) at a nearby restaurant, but they were flat and ugly. I MISS SHANGHAI!
On Feb 7, 2006 2:50 PM, CAT said:
Most of us just try to get away from it after the novelty wears off in the first year. Sorry to be a partypooper but there is a limit to your patience when the damn things are set off in the wee hours of the morning with no regard for people trying to sleep. I say yes, go ahead with the fireworks but please keep it to a reasonable time slot. Plus, drivers could you please turn off your car alarms during this time? i pretty much doubt if anyone would want to steal your piece of junk (or have the means to) at this happy time of the year. And if it did go off (for real), you’ll probably dismiss it anyway. (“oh, another firecracker set off my car, I’ll go back to bed”)
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Xin Nian Kuai Le!
I live in Beijing. Our fireworks were better.
So there. Nyah!
:)
Oh Beijing. You try so hard. -patpat-
*sigh* I miss Shanghai New Years so much… it just doesn’t compare in New York. We had those tube things that threw streamers into the air, but no fireworks… those are illegal here right? I was mildly entertained by throwing those little poppers onto the ground, but nothing beats setting off your own cacaphonia of lights (purchased for under 100 kuai!). We used to do it from the rooftop of our building near Huai Hai Lu… sometimes we’d put music to it too and pretend it was like some Disney Magical Show.
Here we just walked around Mott Street and saw some teenagers lion dance for… what I’m guessing was money from participating restaurants. And then just when some Chinese concert was getting started in Chinatown, festivities were cut short because it started to rain.
I did get to eat some soup dumplings… I mean Xiao Long Bao(!!) at a nearby restaurant, but they were flat and ugly. I MISS SHANGHAI!
Most of us just try to get away from it after the novelty wears off in the first year. Sorry to be a partypooper but there is a limit to your patience when the damn things are set off in the wee hours of the morning with no regard for people trying to sleep. I say yes, go ahead with the fireworks but please keep it to a reasonable time slot. Plus, drivers could you please turn off your car alarms during this time? i pretty much doubt if anyone would want to steal your piece of junk (or have the means to) at this happy time of the year. And if it did go off (for real), you’ll probably dismiss it anyway. (“oh, another firecracker set off my car, I’ll go back to bed”)