Ang Pow Gong Xi Ni

I don’t know why exactly, but Chinese New Year music drives me batty, especially when I’m doing grocery shopping. The selection of music at Cold Storage makes me want to pick up a tin of biscuits and hurl it at wherever I think the loudspeakers are. Gongxi gongxi gongxi your head lah!

I was told off on the phone by a friend for sounding grumpy and sian. You’d be sian too if you had to work all weekend (and miss a long anticipated brunch organised by Myrick and attended by the finalists of the Asia Blog Awards Singapore Category 2004 – sorry guys, beer on me next time). You’d be so sian you’d join the Church of Siantology.

Year of the Cock’s coming soon, but I dunno if things will get better though.


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Surf stop: Deliriousdreams (heh heh)
iTunes’ party shuffle is playing a copy of: The Good in Goodbye – Cerys Matthews – Cockahoop, of which I have the original CD and therefore didn’t steal music.
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22 responses to “Ang Pow Gong Xi Ni”

  1. jade mao Avatar

    drives me crazy too… makes me wanna scratch the speakers out *P

  2. jade mao Avatar

    drives me crazy too… makes me wanna scratch the speakers out *P

  3. Mandrake Avatar

    Imagine the agony the people working at the shop have to endure!

  4. Mandrake Avatar

    Imagine the agony the people working at the shop have to endure!

  5. cour marly Avatar

    Deliriousdreams — is that for real??

  6. cour marly Avatar

    Deliriousdreams — is that for real??

  7. Jayaxe Avatar

    For a moment, I thought the mule-sick made you want to pick up a tin of biscuits and buy it. Heh.

    Cold Storage, it’s a NTUC as well!

  8. Jayaxe Avatar

    For a moment, I thought the mule-sick made you want to pick up a tin of biscuits and buy it. Heh.

    Cold Storage, it’s a NTUC as well!

  9. gstrings Avatar

    seriously dubious. that link. quite impossible for someone like her to discuss about work issues so openly.

  10. gstrings Avatar

    seriously dubious. that link. quite impossible for someone like her to discuss about work issues so openly.

  11. Mr Miyagi Avatar

    Heh. That’s where you don’t know Delirious Dreams, my friends. A friend/fan pushes some buttons on Blogger(TM) and gives her the password and UID and she puts in her two cents’ worth of mangled verse once in a while. But that’s only my theory.

  12. Mr Miyagi Avatar

    Heh. That’s where you don’t know Delirious Dreams, my friends. A friend/fan pushes some buttons on Blogger(TM) and gives her the password and UID and she puts in her two cents’ worth of mangled verse once in a while. But that’s only my theory.

  13. Bubblemunche Avatar

    Tell me about it. My mum is gonna blast the Gong Xi Fa Cai CDs very, very soon….

    You don’t happen to live near Sembawang do you :D? MUAHuhauHAHH!!!!

  14. Bubblemunche Avatar

    Tell me about it. My mum is gonna blast the Gong Xi Fa Cai CDs very, very soon….

    You don’t happen to live near Sembawang do you :D? MUAHuhauHAHH!!!!

  15. aGent X Avatar

    Different stroke for me – being a non-chinese in a Chinese school where music class is something that we look forward to in Sec 1 and 2 (no need study lah, just sing only).We always sing CNY songs as part of my music teacher’s (Mr. Ang) getting into the festive mood. Without knowing what the lyrics meant, we would create our own version and innuendos. So when I heard it at malls, it brought back fond memories :).

  16. aGent X Avatar

    Different stroke for me – being a non-chinese in a Chinese school where music class is something that we look forward to in Sec 1 and 2 (no need study lah, just sing only).We always sing CNY songs as part of my music teacher’s (Mr. Ang) getting into the festive mood. Without knowing what the lyrics meant, we would create our own version and innuendos. So when I heard it at malls, it brought back fond memories :).

  17. Beach-yi Avatar

    Mandrake, those who work in the shops basically either tune themselves out or they use the songs to as a way to pass the daily humdrum.

    My favoured method is to just pick one song I like and wait for it to repeat itself throughout the day. It’s like trying to spot a plane flying over the CHangi Beach.

  18. Beach-yi Avatar

    Mandrake, those who work in the shops basically either tune themselves out or they use the songs to as a way to pass the daily humdrum.

    My favoured method is to just pick one song I like and wait for it to repeat itself throughout the day. It’s like trying to spot a plane flying over the CHangi Beach.

  19. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    enjoy reading ur blog man!
    yes Chinese NeeeeU EAR music drives alot of people crazy, from toilet music, supermarkets, taxis to your very own local clinics.
    a friend of mine was sick last year, so she paid the clinic a visit, upon reaching there she felt better till they started playing CNY music and drove her fever up again.

    ead.
    eadwine.com

  20. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    enjoy reading ur blog man!
    yes Chinese NeeeeU EAR music drives alot of people crazy, from toilet music, supermarkets, taxis to your very own local clinics.
    a friend of mine was sick last year, so she paid the clinic a visit, upon reaching there she felt better till they started playing CNY music and drove her fever up again.

    ead.
    eadwine.com

  21. six-sugars Avatar

    what’s worse than loud clanging chinese new year songs while doing your grocery shopping? when you find yourself humming to the all-too-familiar music…

    argh!!!

  22. six-sugars Avatar

    what’s worse than loud clanging chinese new year songs while doing your grocery shopping? when you find yourself humming to the all-too-familiar music…

    argh!!!

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