Chinese New Year Eve

It is Chinese New Year Eve today. My husband and I called the families back in China. At 12pm last night, I was sending our daughter's videos to her grandparents. This morning at six my sister used QQ to wake up the whole family. She wanted us to watch the New Year Gala on TV with them together. It is an re-invented tradition starting from 1983 when TV became a necessary facility in Chinese households.

We had never thought it was so difficult to open up web page for the New Year Gala. We could have used pplive to see the gala broadcast. Unfortunately my mac does not support PP and my husband's PC cannot download the PPlive.

We try to use CCTV international channel to watch the live broadcasting. Unfortunately, the speed is so slow that we either cannot see the image or hear the sound. So we decided to watch live broadcast on the campus. Again, the campus internet does not improve the download speed. We cannot do anything but giving up. So we will see videos tomorrow.

My favorite song for this year's gala is
Wang Fei, Legend

Only one night, the video got 100,000 hits.


LL is with us today. She does not seem to watch the Gala. Once she has time, LL always browses videos on the youtube by herself.

Last time we had spring festival in China is 2006.

When will we have time to go back for the Chinese New Year?