Happy Chinese/Lunar New Year!

[MinesSkylineR34]

yeah i know i'm a bit late while posting this haha
for all you asian folks in this community not to suppose to open them yet :/
Day 1 has begun and i feel the temptation to open my red envelopes =/

 

[Optimus Prime]

Yay! Happy to you
Have a good one.

 

[Humpie]

i opened them already and i found nutthin inside =x

 

[Majin_You]

Happy New Year! Wooo! Year of the Monkey!

Even though I am not Chinese through any manner of descent, friends of the family gave me some Lucky Money yesterday =]

 

[MinesSkylineR34]

i opened them already and i found nutthin inside =x

you broke tradition!!
/me stabs humpie and tells him no more pewp

 

[Deman]

Gong xi fa chi!

(forgive me if I've somehow slaughtered that, I was just checking back in the IRC log.)

red envelopes, eh? forgive me for being the stupid white-boy that I am, but could a little explanation of the tradition of this event be posted?

 

[KyoKusanagi]

Lol thats cool - you were almost right Miroku - its Kung Hei Fat Choi or Gong Xi Fa Cai

Anyways the red envelopes are presents we recieve at chinese new years given to us by friends and family - filled with money! heheheheh

 

[MinesSkylineR34]

yeah i think i spelled that wrong, its gong xi fa chai for mandirin
and more like gong hai fat choi for cantonese woo gotten so much red evenlops already, ill use this years money to buy me a new hard drive \o/

 

[Kurt`]

So, you are given red envelopes contraining a random amount of cash?

/me wants in

/me tries to look azn

 

[KyoKusanagi]

Its supposed to be random though its up to the person who gives the envelope to you.