Yes, that's how the Chinese New Year greeting should be, not "Kung Hei Fat Choi". Most Chinese Filipinos uses the Hokkien dialect here in the Philippines thus, "Kiong Hee Huat Tsai" is more appropriate.
But then again, what does the common Juan do during this festivities?
Well personally, I observed that Filipinos are the type of people who wants to celebrate a lot. So just like celebrating fiestas, Filipinos embraced this new found festivity (i think this caught up during Cory Aquino's term since she's with Chinese blood).
As for the rest of the Filipinos like me, we muse and shrug our shoulders, asking "Why celebrate? I'm not Chinese?". But then again, why spoil the fun?
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
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