Awww...
It's Chinese New Year again and I love all other things in CNY but only one, which is already a big turn off for a festive season.
Yes, Lion Dance.
I hated it because I am a lion-dance-phobic. Don't laugh and don't ask me why, since young when I hear the drums I would start to fret and start to find places to hide. I still remember I REFUSE to get out of my house lift lobby gate just because there is a lion dance performance right outside the gate. Not that my parents did not try to make me overcome this, they failed to. I cried when people are dancing with the drum beat which then they would carry me to another place, since lion dance is supposed to be something auspicious it's just not right for anyone to cry at the spot. My childhood Chinese New Year was always filled with great sense of insecurity and fear.
I used to think that this is yet just another childhood thing when I realised that it is actually not so when I grew up. There was this lion dance performance when I was in Junior Colleage and I tried to keep myself there to watch the performance but about 5 minutes later I found that air become much thinner and I break into cold sweat, I just excuse myself to the toilet until the performance is over.
I thought it could be due to the loud drum sound at first, until one day after school, I stayed behind to study and was sitting outside this LT4 with Xiaoting; and this chinese teacher "Wu Lao Shi" came and talked to us. "Wu Lao Shi" was the teacher in-charge of the lion dance troop and naturally the lion's head followed him and was practising beside our table. Don't ask me what this teacher said to us because I totally cannot concentrate in the conversation AT ALL until I cannot take it anymore I was sweating all the way and I asked this "Lao Shi" if he can get his students to practise somewhere else. It was JUST THE LION HEAD, no drum, no sound, and I simply fret out.
Just a couple of days ago I happened to walked pass my town central and suddenly this drum roll started and I simply jumped and hold my fist tight and took off as if there is a million roaches marching behind me.
I was joking with my mother the other day, may be in my previous life *If there is really one*, I was frightened by a lion dance troop that I accidentally stepped on a roach and I slipped and fell to death, and just so happened that that day was a thunderstorm day.
LOL.
Anyway, happy chinese new year to all!
Have a smooth and prosperous year ahead!
It's Chinese New Year again and I love all other things in CNY but only one, which is already a big turn off for a festive season.
Yes, Lion Dance.
I hated it because I am a lion-dance-phobic. Don't laugh and don't ask me why, since young when I hear the drums I would start to fret and start to find places to hide. I still remember I REFUSE to get out of my house lift lobby gate just because there is a lion dance performance right outside the gate. Not that my parents did not try to make me overcome this, they failed to. I cried when people are dancing with the drum beat which then they would carry me to another place, since lion dance is supposed to be something auspicious it's just not right for anyone to cry at the spot. My childhood Chinese New Year was always filled with great sense of insecurity and fear.
I used to think that this is yet just another childhood thing when I realised that it is actually not so when I grew up. There was this lion dance performance when I was in Junior Colleage and I tried to keep myself there to watch the performance but about 5 minutes later I found that air become much thinner and I break into cold sweat, I just excuse myself to the toilet until the performance is over.
I thought it could be due to the loud drum sound at first, until one day after school, I stayed behind to study and was sitting outside this LT4 with Xiaoting; and this chinese teacher "Wu Lao Shi" came and talked to us. "Wu Lao Shi" was the teacher in-charge of the lion dance troop and naturally the lion's head followed him and was practising beside our table. Don't ask me what this teacher said to us because I totally cannot concentrate in the conversation AT ALL until I cannot take it anymore I was sweating all the way and I asked this "Lao Shi" if he can get his students to practise somewhere else. It was JUST THE LION HEAD, no drum, no sound, and I simply fret out.
Just a couple of days ago I happened to walked pass my town central and suddenly this drum roll started and I simply jumped and hold my fist tight and took off as if there is a million roaches marching behind me.
I was joking with my mother the other day, may be in my previous life *If there is really one*, I was frightened by a lion dance troop that I accidentally stepped on a roach and I slipped and fell to death, and just so happened that that day was a thunderstorm day.
LOL.
Anyway, happy chinese new year to all!
Have a smooth and prosperous year ahead!
