Home alone: A reunion dinner of one in Kuala Lumpur this Chinese New Year

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'We are adrift in our carefully crafted bubbles; each household its own castle and moat, cut off from the rest of the world. For some of us, that household is a household of one.'

'Yee sang' has become an indispensable part of Chinese New Year gatherings and reunion meals. – Pictures by CK Lim

Yet even before the new lunar year is upon us, some fortunes are more familiar than others. Many of us won’t be celebrating Chinese New Year with our families this year. I have friends in Shanghai who won’t be able to return to KL. I have a friend in Taipei who won’t be having her reunion in Kansas. Another is stuck in New York and won’t be returning to Hong Kong.For all the horrors the pandemic has conjured up, for all the havoc it has wreaked, perhaps nothing slowly saps the soul more than the loss of human touch, of communion and close community.

We might be alone at home but we don’t have to celebrate Chinese New Year alone. After all there is FaceTime and there is Zoom, and there is always a simple phone call.

 

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