Called it the Chinese New Year spirit or the need to attract the “Prosperity God” to the house because my house looked BRIGHT red this year.
As long as I can remember, my dad never failed to decorate the house with tanglung and ong lai (pineapple) each time the new year arrive. It’s one of the tradition he still held on to despite the evolution of modern Chinese New Year. In fact, it’s on its way to extinction especially in KL where young people are too busy with work and life.
However, this year, I think my dad went overboard with the decoration. He choose to add in more tanglung (he bought 8 as the number symbolize prosperity in chinese) and bought bigger ong lai. His reason : our house looked big so the tanglung and ong lai need to be big too in order to complement with each other.
*aduh*
Our house is the only one in the neighbourhood with the most and biggest decoration for CNY.I doubt any other house can beat my dad. My guess is if they start doing so, my dad will buy MORE next year…
*shaking my head*
Chinese are so kiasu when it comes to everything!
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