CNY

The time is now--- CNY is here and will kick off on February 14th. It's a great holiday and cultural event in Hong Kong and especially MK.. We at the Way of MK are getting things right as well. Everyone has to clean their houses before the new year starts.. You don't want to leave any dirt (negativity) in the house for the new year.. Could be some bad dirt-- Could just be that feeling that you get when you wake up knowing that the whole house is clean. On the street -- MK is loaded more so than ever for the lead up of the holiday.. Stores open a bit earlier and stay open later than the normal 3am.. Red everywhere and people walking through the streets carrying flowers.. Another aspect of the CNY is the flower or mini-orange trees.. Another play on the feeling and psychology of when you wake up on that first day of the lunar new year. You now have a whole clean house feeling topped with the feeling of fresh flowers and a new life/energy welcoming you to the new year... Then you gotta get your positive expressions by the door or around the house. Things that say enter and exit in peace, the new year will bring you happiness, the new year will bring you wealth, the new year will bring you health and the list goes on and on.. So now your waking up with a clean house feeling, a flower power energy and now to top it off, you throw in some positive expressions around the house to pump you up... But wait..... there's more....When it all kicks off.... All you have to do is say some positive expression to people and they hand you money.. Real money.. Now if your married, then you need to give money to people that say these positive expression to you.... But if someone is older than you, you can also get some of that loot.. So nooooww, you're waking up with: whole house clean feeling
flower power (positive energy from a living object)
positive expression's on your walls
chances to give and receive money (always feels good
to give)
How can you not like that action? But wait.....there's more... You're off work for at least 3 days. This year 4 because of the Saturday.. Now, there are lots of people who work for companies that close for upwards of a month AND often bosses get a bit generous with loot for the employees... Can it get any better? If you like to gamble a bit, there's more Mahjohng (MJ) going on in this city for 3 days then there are.....I don't what to compare it to but there's a lot and often for a lot of people it will be the only days out of the whole year that they would play... We here at the Way of MK like some MJ action from time to time... This holiday offers a lot of history and culture. It wasn't created with the commercial aspect motivating it, though there are ways to capitalize off of it. CNY has so much of a purity to it that you can't help but to like/love it. Lion Dancing going on all over the place and people feeling good..
Gung Hei Faat Choi from the Way of MK