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What I hate about Chinese New Year

Chinese around the globe will celebrate the first day of the lunar calendar this coming Monday, January 23.

(This year is the year of the water dragon.)

While I have my share of happy moments during CNY, there is one thing that I can’t stand that pops up during this festival.

Here it is:

Many self-proclaimed Chinese astrologists and feng shui masters appear on TV, radio, and newspaper and will predict how the new year will unfold and what is auspicious and what is not -in the areas of wealth, health, career, and love.

For Chinese, of course, the tips are given according to your animal zodiac.

What drives me crazy is the predictions are just too general and the advice given is too universal that you don’t need an expert to tell you what to do.

That means if you are born in the year of the dragon, you will share the same “fate” with the rest of fellow dragon babies who were born in the same year.

How could that possible?

And the advice?

Eat healthy. Don’t break law. Invest carefully. Be sensitive to people. Be patient. Spend wisely.

Aren’t these things you already know? Do you need them to tell you the obvious?

Some experts even ask you to buy ornaments to put in the south-west corner of your house so that you’ll have a smooth sailing year ahead.

Duh.

I mean no disrespect but let me tell you this:

Although you don’t have a choice to pick where you were born, but there are things in life that you can change. What you do today determines your tomorrow.

Heard of the saying: You reap what you sow?

Your life is not bound by what the experts or astrologists say. You have the free will to do what you want and you have the power to control your destiny.

Don’t get me wrong, apart from this “little”
complaint, I STILL enjoy CNY. :D