Saturday, January 26, 2008
Shops have started to display CNY food items and decorations. Pasar malams are also sprouting with different promotions. New year goodies, junkfood, sweet drinks, BBQ pork and the likes are around almost everywhere you turn.
Have you done your shopping yet? Or are you more of a last minute buyer hoping to snag food items at great bargains on CNY's eve? Chinatown is known for selling CHY goodies at super low prices on the eve. Things like tarts..cookies... Taiwan mochi and jelly... candied lotus root, persimmons, coconut strips... and of course melon/ pumpkin/ sunflower seeds... For about $1, you can grab a plastic bagful of mochi which usually goes for a few dollars for maybe 200g? Those are kind of heavy so you wouldn't get many too if they go according to weight.
Would you dare to take up the challenge of walking at Chinatown on the eve though? It's an insane place to be at on that day. During the eve of past years, I was tempted to drop by to soak in the CNY mood. However, almost as quickly, this thought would vanish as I know that I'd probably feel giddy with so many people squeezing here and there.
I wonder if I would drop by on impulse this year. :D Not that there wouldn't be a crowd this year. @_@
I was speaking on the phone with a pupil's parents yesterday. She's such a nice parent to talk to. Understanding and yet, knows how to keep track of her son's homework. How I wish all parents would be like that. She's sounded so grateful that I bothered to call her twice to update her on her son's attitude problem in school. For parents like these, as a teacher, you'd really want to go an extra mile to help her because she's doing her part also instead of demanding this and that. She also helped me to identify what could be the root of the problem and also helped me to understand her son's history a little better, not to try to make me be more lenient towards her son but rather to guide me in thinking of ways to help him open up.
I truly am thankful for moments like these when I know that a parent like her appreciate the help of the teachers and that I have her support in decisions I make towards her son.
Respect goes 2 ways after all.Labels: Chinese New Year, Work
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