Comments on: Hi, I’m China and I like to blow shit up

By: Meet Nasal Nemesis Norm: Part 1 | Adventures By Design

Meet Nasal Nemesis Norm: Part 1 | Adventures By Design — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:54:50 +0000

[...] Chinese travel to their hometowns, and most foreigners flee the country. For a great description, see Ryan’s post. For this holiday we traveled to Japan for a week or so to visit our good friends Allan and Glen. [...]

By: Little sister

Little sister — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:00:48 +0000

I remember that festival…and not sleeping…and god, the fireworks that never ended…

But it was also one of the best festivals I’ve ever spent with family. Happy-sort-of-belated-but-not-exactly Chinese New Year(s), Ge Ge!

By: Chinamatt

Chinamatt — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:41:41 +0000

I do enjoy watching the free fireworks show…but it does get old after more than a week. I don’t remember this happening the previous years I celebrated in China…but maybe I had more to drink in those years.

By: From Toronto

From Toronto — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:45:03 +0000

this is just a pussy whine

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:58:30 +0000

@Chris: Actually read your account of spring festival earlier today – it’s cool you and your father-in-law have a good “he selects and places/I light” system down… blowing shit up is (though a linguistic irony) bonding like no other.

I’ve spent parts with the inlaws before, and quite enjoyed it – but it’s difficult for me to be away from work/Internet for so long (they’ve only recently stepped into the world of DVDs – we’re still a few years away from getting them online!).

Still, perhaps next year we’ll head up to Jinzhou for the whole holiday and have a proper Chinacrimbo.

By: chriswaugh_bj

chriswaugh_bj — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:39:59 +0000

Hi, I’m Chris, and I like China because China shares my like of blowing shit up.

Yeah, Spring Festival was a bit of a drag before I acquired family here, but these days I love it. I mean, this year my mother in law bought me two crates of beer and a small arsenal, and my father in law and I demonstrated our awesomely finely-honed teamwork in blowing shit up, and various extended in-laws contributed more beer and baijiu, and Ma and my wife cooked up an awesome meal for New Year’s Eve, and various rellies contributed more culinary goodness, and yes, certain of the more malevolent cousins conspired to get me pissed, and I do not necessarily like all of the extended in-laws we had to visit, but on the whole I had a good time.

Yeah, I dislike what Christmas seems to have mutated into but probably always was, and there’s a lot about Spring Festival I could do without, but there are certain things about the holiday that are just plain cool.

I recommend spending next Spring Festival holed up at your in-laws’ place.