Happy Vietnamese/Chinese New Year!

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:53 am

To all of the Vietnamese and Chinese people here, Happy New Year! Chuc Mung Nam Moi! Gung Hay Fat Choi! and even if you're not vietnamese/chinese...happy new year! im hoping to rack up the Li See (lucky money) money!!!

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:15 am

Same to you PPPP. May everyone be prosperous, healthy, and joyful.

I gotta enjoy the red envelope lucky money while I can, because once I get married, I gotta hand them out.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:57 am

Happy New Year to you all

IlMrm said it well, so I won't be repeating any of that. Except, I'm not getting married for a good five or six years, so I'll still be scoring quite a few red envelopes. I got about $80-$90. What about you guys?

Quadp's Cantonese is hilarious

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PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:21 pm

i got 22 bucks...(a lucky 2 dollar bill..oh boy..so lucky...SCREW THAT)

VNAF Ace · Post by **VNAF Ace** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:18 pm

Happy New Year.

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:42 pm

Yep, 800 miles from home so I don't get anything.

Shin nen kwai luh.

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:55 pm

my dad just gave me 100 bucks... and that's JUST my dad. Oh and forgot, chuc mung nam moi to all the nguoi vietnam here

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:14 pm

huh, red letter money? Someone enlighten me as to what that is.

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:47 pm

I don't know the true tradition of chinese new year yet, but as far as I know, people wish each other a happy new year and give money in a red envelope.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:43 am

Damn, on contrast, mexicans wish each other a happy new year, and end up owing money to everybody. (I'm from Mexico, so don't think I'm being a jerk.)

Kidding. That's stuff I just made up.

Man, moola to buy shmuppy stuff in February. And if you got something back in december... double lucky!

greg · Post by **greg** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:04 am

mannerbot wrote:Yep, 800 miles from home so I don't get anything. Shin nen kwai luh.

Is that Cantonese? I know I've heard that before. "Shin nen" is "New Year" in Japanese too, but they don't really say that. Japanese say "Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu", or "Ake-ome" for hip youngsters. I know in Mandarin it's "Gong hey fa choi" or something like that.

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:19 am

Nope. It's Mandarin. Gung hoy fat choy is Cantonese and doesn't mean "happy new year," but it's more of a "wish you good fortune" type of thing. In Mandarin it'd be gong shi fah tzai.

I took Japanese for four years, and I never heard of either saying. I can see how shin nen would mean new year, but nobody calls it that, right?