The temples around town are all buzzing. The one above is the Man Mo temple right up the street from us. At the new year, people pay homage to different deities & relatives, though not so much religious. They believe that the more you show gratitude, the more $$ you will gain in the coming year. It is difficult to explain, but there seems to be a general feeling of a "gotta get mine" mentality--gotta get the most money, gotta be the first one in the line to get on the subway (even though it doesn't mean that you are going to get there any quicker!) gotta have the coolest liscence plate....little sidebar: people pay oodles for personalized liscense plates, like "cool" or especially for the luckiest number to the chinese, 8. Most paid for a liscence plate to date is 13 million.
Inauguration night; we stayed up to make it to the only bar close by showing the inauguration, at 1 am...and we were on CNN!
The temples around town are all buzzing. The one above is the Man Mo temple right up the street from us. At the new year, people pay homage to different deities & relatives, though not so much religious. They believe that the more you show gratitude, the more $$ you will gain in the coming year. It is difficult to explain, but there seems to be a general feeling of a "gotta get mine" mentality--gotta get the most money, gotta be the first one in the line to get on the subway (even though it doesn't mean that you are going to get there any quicker!) gotta have the coolest liscence plate....little sidebar: people pay oodles for personalized liscense plates, like "cool" or especially for the luckiest number to the chinese, 8. Most paid for a liscence plate to date is 13 million.
Inauguration night; we stayed up to make it to the only bar close by showing the inauguration, at 1 am...and we were on CNN! 
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