Christmas Eve & Christmas.

It is 3 o'clock now in China. Christmas of 2013 has gone, I'd like to say MERRY CHRISTMAS for yesterday...haha. Maybe it is still December 25th in some other places in the world, people there may are be enjoying the big christmas dinner, singing christmas songs, or opening their christmas gifts...

I went to Teemall this afternoon with my roommates. Teemall is a shopping mall in Tianhe District in Guangzhou. "Tianhe"——"天河"in Chinese, means milky way. You can say "tin hall" as its Cantonese pronouncation. A lot of interesting activities was were held there during Christmas. Worth mentioning, there was a Hello Kitty Show in Teemall! In the show, Hello Kittys wore Guangzhou traditional dress. That was funny. And old times of Guangzhou recurred? were remembered?. How cute they were! To be frank, I have loved Hello Kitty since I was a little girl.

Apart from the christmas, I'd like to tell you someting in about the evening of christmas eve. That evening two of my classmates and I wore a christmas caps and stuck on a moustaches, dressed like Santa Claus. We sent apples as gifts to every member of our class. Everyone was surprised and smiled happily when they received the apples. Why did we send apples as gifts in christmas eve? In Chinese, christmas eve is pronounced as "ping an ye", while apple pronounced as "ping guo". They had similar pronouncation in Chinese. Also, "ping"——"平", means welfare in Chinese. People thought eating apples in on christmas eve could bring welfare* to them.

*In my European English I would say 'well-being' here but I seem to remember in American English 'welfare' is correct. Maybe someone else can correct me.

(Cantonese pronouncation:sing dan fine law——Merry Christmas!)