Memories of chinatown

When i was little, i always remember my parents bringing both me and my younger siblings to chinatown during the weekends whenever they had the time..it was really fun and enjoyable back then...
Chinatown offers lots of interesting things to see such as chinese new year decorations, candies from different countries, interesting handmade goods like the dough figure, potteries, paintings as well as amazing acrobatic performances that happens from time to time..the atmosphere it gives to people is very lively and bustling.... i also enjoyed looking at the unique windows they had there from the past as well as the beautiful lights that lights up the place whenever night came....The feeling that chinatown gave me was that it was like a fantasy world where chinese new year would go on and on forever...

But as time passed, i got busier with school stuff that i became less interested to go to places like chinatown..it could be because i was tired of going to the same place over and over again..sometimes i feel that i would rather visit a shopping centre than to go to such places...But after doing this assignment do i realized that i have neglected the important of chinatown and for thinking that it would still be there no matter how many years have gone by...i feel that us teenagers nowadays have been too pampered and busy with our own life that we never stop or slow down to see the things around us...even if anyone were to ask me about my own chinese culture and stuff related to it, i'm pretty sure i might not be able to answer back at all...

Thus for this assignment, i choose to do chinatown to remind me of the importance of it..No matter what, it is the history, the culture as well as the people that makes up us "Chinese"..I feel that now is the time we should treasure our own culture and learn where our origins come from before its too late...Because in the next 10 to 20 years, even if chinatown is still there, it has lost all of its important and flavor that it is nothing but a empty shell of what's left....



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Koh Shyr Shyuan Stacy
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