Those read this blog or know me well enough would know that I’m no fan of Chinese New Year.

I even wrote 3 years ago 10 Reasons to hate Chinese New Year.

My first reason in that post is

1. CNY music sounds horrible. It’s playing everywhere, ad nauseam, ad infinitum. And imagine - as long as you’re in this region, you’re gonna have to listen to that stuff every year for the rest of your pathetic life.

What I found quite surprising this year is that a few people I know have also admitted to me that CNY music is noisy and annoying. Not all of them know about this blog.

Unfortunately, it’s gonna be that way forever. CNY music is meant to be noisy and annoying, to scare away the mythical Nian monster.

(I wonder if the Nian monster has anything relationship with Santa Claus. But that’s another story.)

What’s quite different this particular CNY are those friggin’ annoying ‘niu’ and ox-asperating puns that have been going around. wtf.

For those of you who will be interacting with long-lost relatives who mysteriously appear out of the woodwork this time of the year every year, don’t forget some 10 ways to get the when-are-you-getting-married relative to shut up.

As for me, you’ll know what I’ll be doing on CNY.

p.s. notice that all the gongxifacais last year and the red for luck and mandarin oranges for gold didn’t seem to work for most people? Face it - all the well wishes on CNY won’t make an iota of difference.