Happy New Year's!!!

As Vietnamese New Year's is nearing, Vietnamese families are quickly preparing for the year of the horse with rituals ceremonies, family visitations, and other traditional confinements. Vietnamese New Year's is the most elaborate holiday for the Vietnamese, differing the date each year, as the lunar calender changes. This year, Vietnamese New Year's falls on January 31,2014, and marking this year as the year of the horse.

Horses to the Vietnamese are intelligent animals who love to talk, easily tempered, cheerful, and popular. The horse is also known to be very sexual and seductive towards the opposite sex. While there are plenty of positive traits about the horse, the horse itself is a very stubborn animal, who tends to be very impatient, and ill tempered. I was born on the year of the horse, and I believe that these traits are true. I am a very happy person, but also have a very bad temper. My ill tempered and my impatience are my weaknesses, hurting my relationship with my boyfriend, but I am learning to control it all.

During the Vietnamese New Year's, Vietnamese families have a few traditional beliefs that they follow to assure that they will have an auspicious year with plenty of happiness and luck. One of the traditions that Vietnamese follow is to pass out lucky money in red envelopes to young children to ensure that they will have luck throughout the year. These lucky money are given when the elders are wished a happy, prosperous, healthy, and lucky year. Besides passing out lucky money, my family believed that on the first day of New Year's, you do not open any doors inside the house, such as closet doors, cabinets, or chest drawers. We believe that by restricting our limitation to open these doors, we will restrict our money flow, and we will not lose any money during that year. Another tradition my family follows is praying and visiting temples to ask Buddha to give us luck for that year, and take away our bad luck.

I like to wish everyone a Happy New Year's fill with happiness, increase in wealth and prosperity, have good health and longevity throughout this year. As the new year's is coming closer, I have a few wishes of my own that I like to share, hoping that it will soon come true.

My first wish is to have a happy year. I wish for my family, my boyfriend, and myself to be happy this whole year, and not have to be sad over anything again.I wish my boyfriend will never be sad again, and never have one of those days when he is sad again. I wish that he will always be happy, and so he can always laugh and be by my side. My second wish is that my boyfriend will propose to me this summer before my birthday. I have been dating him for almost three years now, and I feel more ready than ever to start a new chapter together with him. Time and age can not be rewind, and I am not any younger, but I only age more each passing year. I have been hinting to my boyfriend that I hope he would propose to me this year, but I know that my boyfriend is nervous and afraid of tying the knot with me. I know that he is afraid that I will not be happy spending the rest of my life with him, but he does not understand that he is my world. I have become a different person because of him, and he has made me a better person. I'm not too subtle when it comes to hints because I explicitly tell my boyfriend that I hope this year will be the year for us. Although I have hinted several times to my boyfriend, telling him that this is what I wanted for my birthday this year, but I am very worried. I'm not worry about our future together. I'm not worry about living with his parents or raising our kids together. I'm not worry about doing house chores, and building a family with him. What I am worry about is that he won't propose to me this summer. Sometimes I think that he will propose to me this year, but then sometimes I think he will postpone and not propose to me like he has done before. Therefore, I wish that this wish will come true this summer. My third wish is to have good health. I am afraid that I might be sick this year, as this is what the horoscope said about me. I am worried that I might have a relapse of UTI or some kidney infection. My lower back has been hurting me for so long now, one minute aching so much, and the next minute, I feel normal. According to my horoscope for this year, I will encounter either UTI or kidney infections, which makes me worry because I do not have health insurance at the moment, and I had a UTI history. I am very superstitious because I have a mole that signifies that I will not live long, and I believe that this is the case for my mom has this same mole.

I'm very eager for the new year to come, and I pray that my three wishes will come true this year. Lastly, I wish everyone a happy new year, filled with endless laughter and joy! :)