Year Of The Ox

Last night at twelve, I stayed up with my dad to watch Chinese New Year stuff. At twelve o'clock sharp, we could hear sounds of fireworks. People that live up on the hills must be burning fireworks. Luckily, we did not go to Central and stroll in the flower markets, because there are too many people. Although I guarantee that it would be extremely fun, I still did not go for once in my 9 1/2 years of life. As I think back to the beautiful memories of my younger years, I remember a lot of Chinese New Year celebrations with my grandparents and great-grandma. We ate Chinese cakes and candy, flower seeds and chicken. I most loved the radish cake and brown sugar cake because: 1. The brown sugar cake is fried with egg, my favorite way which is scrambled egg. 2. The radish cake is made my my 92 years old great-grandma. It gives me a lot of joy to know that she is still able to make things unlike other elderly that cannot walk or eat. It's a good thing schools are closed during a time when we most likely would go visit our relatives. To me, Chinese New Year is very important because it reminds me that only in Asian countries people celebrate this festival. Especially because I am a Chinese, this festival tells me that Chinese people have the strength to start a very unique festival with lots of food that the Chinese had invented themselves. This year, it is the year of the ox, and I hope in the year of the ox (2009), the workers that were affected by the financial tsunami would quickly get a new job, the people that had survived in the Sichuan earthquake would have some more people help them in reconstructing Sichuan, and that Mr. Barack Obama would do a good job to help the Americans go through financial problems and governmental problems.