Happy new year!

Well, Chinese New Year to be exact. Of course it's not a very big deal in western countries but in China I'm pretty sure everybody's celebrating. Me? I'm not celebrating anything today.

For one I'm Vietnamese and even though us Asians look kinda the same we have different Lunar New Year days. From what I know, the Vietnamese have a different way to calculate the lunar year from the Chinese. That's why Vietnamese New Year started yesterday. Oh gee, one day!

So you might ask what's the big deal with this new year stuff. Well, it's pretty much the equivalence of Christmas in Asian Culture. Everybody gets a holiday, kids get presents in the form of lucky money. For adults, well, it's pretty much the time of the year when you have to go all out to kiss people's ass.

Actually, when I come to think about it, there was a lot of ass-kissing every year around the end of the Lunar New year in Vietnam. My parents used to have a business when we were there so every year, even though they didn't do anything wrong, they had to give bribes to the tax people, the police, the local council... just so that they wouldn't make things difficult. It's a dream job to be in the police in Vietnam, it's not because of the piss-poor government salary, it's all the bribes people give you. Anyway, I digress, those aren't the only people whose asses you have to kiss, you have to be on the good side with your kids' teachers too so that they don't make things any more difficult for your kids. But then you can hardly give the teachers money, hence the very expensive presents.

Anyway, what the hell am I doing telling corruption stories on this special day? Let's see if there is anything more cheerful to talk about. Oh yeah, have you heard, Britney Spears wanted to get this awesome haircut


But the haircut didn't turn out to be that good on her so to save the situation she had her head shaved completely and get some tatoos too.


Ok, I was only joking about the first picture. What I really think is Britney's gone off the deep end. This girl needs serious help. No actually she needs to be away from the media and people should just leave her alone to figure her stuff out. And that includes me. So how's about this, I will not mention Britney on this blog again this year. Is it hard to believe that I used to like her back in '98? No, it's not that hard really, I used to like Backstreet Boys and N'Sync too.

Talking about N'Sync, I just have to post this video, I have no idea why I used to like them that much.