Happy chinese new year

[Tony Taylor]

Kong hee fat choy

[James Curry]

Shífēn gǎnxiè That is thank you or maybe 2 chicken and fried rice please

[j.sabourn]

#1 Bow Wow or is it the year of the monkey ? JS

[Doc Vernon]

Slithering Succatash!!

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[happy daze john in oz]

The year of the Snake.

Great time here in Victoria, we have the largest collection of Chinese in the country.
Goes back to the 1800 when gold was discovered here.
Great celebrations in Melbourne and Bendigo where a large number of the originate.

We have one town established by them in about 1850 or so, town of Ararat in central Victoria.

[John Arton]

I was. Mate on a ship in 81 that had mainland Chinese crew, very difficult to work with. I was just getting some sense of how to work with them when we went through the Suez canal on Chinese new year and the deck crowd almost were rioting as they thought that our passage through the canal should have been delayed in order that they could celebrate Chinese new year as if they had been on a Chinese ship they would have a day off to celebrate.
Rgds
J.A

[Tony Taylor]

I was. Mate on a ship in 81 that had mainland Chinese crew, very difficult to work with. I was just getting some sense of how to work with them when we went through the Suez canal on Chinese new year and the deck crowd almost were rioting as they thought that our passage through the canal should have been delayed in order that they could celebrate Chinese new year as if they had been on a Chinese ship they would have a day off to celebrate.
Rgds
J.A

Had my first Chinese New Year in 1968, great time had by all. Officers were guests of crew and treated to magnificent feast followed by Yam Sing which was basically pass the parcel except the "parcel" was a schooner of gin. Funny how the music always stopped when the second mate was holding it.

[j.sabourn]

#7 The following New year Tony I was on a Chinese crewed ship trying to get into Saigon as a port of refuge.Thought the firework display was very good until I realised it was tracer moving towards the ship, turned around and became part of the small boat exodus trying to do the same. Finished up in Hong Kong as port of refuge for repairs and after Hong Kong Taiwan again twice this time as the current too strong for a 4 not ship the first time , we did finally make Japan where I flew home from. Those were the days we must have been idiots. JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John
Ahh! but the memories linger on.
De

[j.sabourn]

Some are more like nightmares. JS