Happy Chinese New Years! + Random thoughts
Happy Chinese New Years! 新年快樂! Ice dragon sculpture in Ottawa It's the start of a new lunar year! I'm writing this on 初三, which means 3 days since the new year has started! This year, I didn't do much for Lunar New Year since I'm here in Ottawa now. Usually, I would go to a temple in Vancouver to pray, but there are no Buddhist temples here in Ottawa 😅. You see, my family is quite spiritual - as in. Growing up, my parents would always take us either to Buddhist temples or Christian churches to pray. I even attended Sunday school growing up! The value of tradition holds strongly in my family, and we always try to be honest with any spiritual being, whether that be God or Mazu. Aside from tradition, we'd usually have hotpot or the like at home! Which, of course now that everyone is scattered across the world, we can't really do that anymore! But that's ok! We of course had a call and just had fun chatting with each other. It was also in this new year that I