Christmas.....Chinese Style

So, seeing as how Chinese New Year is upon us, I guess for a procrastinator, wishing you right now seems right on time.

Anyhoo, leading up to Chinese New Year, one thing that went UNNOTICED happened a week before Chinese New Year, the day was CHRISTMAS!

Think about it:

Christmas is a week before New Year's. Therefore, CHINESE CHRISTMAS is a week before CHINESE New Year and this year Chinese Christmas fell on January 27, 2010

What is CHINESE Christmas?


No, it isn't when CHINESE Jesus was born. That'll just be too convenient..It's about the return of the Three Kings to the Orient Land and it was about this time that they told the people of China about Jesus..makes perfect sense!

" We Three Kings of Orient are,

Bearing gifts, we've travel afar..."

Then later after Coca Cola 'created' Santa Claus, Chinese Christmas was when the kids in China get their presents (of course by request from the government, who made sure all the gifts were the same)

Chinese Christmas in China. (from left, Chinese Santa, Rabbit for Chinese New Year, mannequin) 

Here in BolehLand, Chinese Christmas isn't celebrated because we already have a lot of public holidays, but in true spirit, Jaquah, Khris and I went to some dodgy shopping complex in Subang, which we mistook for the new and 'classy' Empire Gallery.

Right there and then, I saw this mannequin dressed up as the Deity of Prosperity smack in the middle of the entrance of the mall, which by the way had only 7 non-staff people there and the staff or people working in the shops looked very Twilight Zone-ish...but back to the mannequin, I SWEAR they dressed up a female mannequin up.

Look at her..

At that point, I remembered all my Chinese Feng Tou friends of mine and somehow I guessed either Groove Coverage knew the ULTIMATE SECRET or one of the Feng Tou fellas were working in the mall because their favourite song is:

So, Merry Chinese Christmas and a Happy Chinese New Year