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*frrwwwwwwwwwmmmmmmm*

*eerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrcckkkkkchhhhh*


*stands with a strait back but head dangling to the side*

I can live without living! Hahahaha.

I'm sad because it turns out I wont be able to get tablet for a little while yet. *cries*

@Zega
I liked it, how did you make the sun background? It looks really cool.

YOU WANT SOME TRIX STROP!?!

*chucks bowl of trix with lighting speed at strop*

Did you like my "Sunset Art" Thoad?

I liked it, how did you make the sun background?

Zega,
haha I know you drew it. But I mean what tool? Don't you only have MSpaint?

But I mean what tool? Don't you only have MSpaint?

*puts head on side and wonders at the theme*

lol that's a good one KR. Okay, finally, here's mine.



The reason I felt compelled to enter this despite not really having the time to do so is because the theme aptly fell upon the occasion of Chinese New Year (which began 26th January this year, though the festivities go for 15 days).

I happen to know that this wouldn't be relevant to most of you (with the exception of Parsat). Well, in Australia and Malaysia (where I spent the last 3 weeks), CNY is a big deal, especially in the latter country, so you're fairly inundated with it. I used to feel that CNY was the amalgamation of blatantly materialistic sentiment and was therefore the bastion of misguided ideology but I got over that and instead started embracing the overly gaudy proliferation of red and gold lanterns, fire crackers and, of course, the notorious ang pao. Traditional CNY folk songs ran through my head until I wanted to smash my head through a brick wall (not such a good thing). I developed a curious desire to dress in traditional Chinese dress until I realised it'd be a one-time-only wear as I couldn't possibly wear such in Australia except maybe to the annual "Dag Nite" med student ball @ Monash or something.

In short, this all led to me wanting to share a part of my own cultural heritage, despite the fact that I was born and raised in a country, even a world apart from it.

As for the picture, well, to anybody who knows a smidgen about CNY the joke should be self-explanatory, but I'll explain it anyway- according to the Chinese Zodiac, 2009 marks the Year of the Ox. Hence Strop's impersonation (the Year of the Horse was in 2002, and there are 12 animals in the cycle). Note that I was not born in either the year of the horse, nor the ox, haha.

There you go. Culture!

Uh, your characters don't match the pinyin, unless you don't intend both to be the same phrase. That's Gong He Xin Xi, not Gong Xi Fa Cai.

Uh, your characters don't match the pinyin, unless you don't intend both to be the same phrase. That's Gong He Xin Xi, not Gong Xi Fa Cai.

That is great kingryan! I totally lol-ed. Very creative =)

Niptu Barada Nipto!!!

Traditional CNY folk songs ran through my head until I wanted to smash my head through a brick wall (not such a good thing).

so Gantic does that make you a Chinese grammar Nazi or something.Also King Ryan while a lot of others seem to have gotten the joke behind yours.I can't seem to make heads or tails of it.It looks like a bowl of rice with some worms in it that were put next to a microwave or something.Seriously I just don't understand it at all.What am I missing here?

Ah yes, I now remember Gantic's background.

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*throws himself down at Gantic's feet* heeeeelp! Could you at least provide a translation that actually fits? I agonised over the possibility that I was incorrect but ultimately it became a case of the blind leading the blind. As I have said before, I...am a banana.

(If you get both aspects of that joke I will applaud you.)

This doesn't make Gantic a Chinese grammar Nazi as I've used both the wrong characters and the wrong language. It's a bit like saying "Top o' the morning to ye" when I mean to say "How are you this afternoon?"

From my personal understanding, the various elements of Chinese culture has trickled down and been appropriated throughout the South East Asian community and, to a lesser extent, the Australia community. There are in fact significant demographic differences within those Australian communities also- one can expect to find a lot of mainland Chinese within Sydney whereas one would find a lot more Malaysian and Singaporean Chinese within Melbourne. This makes for significant differences in cultural idiosyncrasies. And since these migrant ethnic groups tend to collect in certain metropolitian areas (particularly students), we literally make up a majority in some places.

Now since Gantic has picked up on the ang pao, I'll reveal that my mother does come from Penang (a small island off the Malaysian peninsula) and thus speaks Hokkien. I've never been to China and never really gotten a feel for the various other veins of Chinese culture as it seems too vast and complicated a world for me to actually fathom. And as I've said before, thanks to a Western background, I'm continually feeling the disconnect, as with many other depatriated peoples, we can never quite figure out which our home country is.

In short: Gantic, if you could provide me with the correct pinyin, that would be much appreciated. Writing the wrong phrase is highly embarrassing.

Also, crimson, kingryan drew a microbial culture growing in a petridish. It's a biology joke.

I...am a banana

Cholokid, funny hats only!

Anyway, back to work >_>