I don't know if this qualifies as a Chinese New Year tradition. The elders in the extended family would almost always ask the younger ones who are still single when are they getting married? Those who are married would be smiling smugly until the elders look at them and ask when are they having children? Or if they have children, when are they having another one? It seems that the elders are always stuck in a time warp when getting married means becoming a grown up and having children is a form of filial piety. Well, specifically, having sons is a form of filial piety. AK had to suffer such a "tradition" too for many years but not so much in recent years. How come like that? Why like that? I also don't know why or I didn't know why until this year. For many years now, I have been very thankful that I...