It's a strange phenomenon, Chinese New Year.
Chinese New Year sends people to the train stations by the hundreds. (If I'm not wrong, China's expecting 2.5 million people to be travelling around this new year season, recession notwithstanding.)
Chinese New Year sends foreigners hurtling out of the country, determined to escape the freezing cold by holidaying in the south in places like Hainan, Malaysia, Thailand...
Chinese New Year sends the crime rate shooting through the roof with the increase of pickpockets. I'm too tired to explain it.
Chinese New Year sends people scrambling to put gaudy red decorations up. Red is an auspicious Chinese colour... Usually these decorations have a gold "FORTUNE" character painted/pasted on it.
There are a lot of other stuff, but I'm too tired and burned out to type it all down. Forgive my irresponsible, lazy blogging skills.
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