It is a new year! Until I turned 20, I wrote my new year's resolution to read aloud in front of my parents on January 1st. I did big bow to my parents as I wished them a happy new year and they gave me some money in return. My father liked to talk to us something more than just greetings. He also wrote a letter to us, which were read aloud by us, too.
This kind of family event signaled me that a new year really started.

Now I do no longer live with my parents. My father even passed away years ago. That new year's event just became a kind of old story, and my memory that cannot happen any more.

It is my forth new year that I am spending in the U.S. What signals a new year since then? Nothing signals. It is just one of ordinary days that I miss my father.