Best moment of the Golden Globes was when...

Ang Lee gave his thank you speech while accepting the award for Best Director. Not only did he give the speech in flawless English but he also wished all the world a happy new year in Chinese.

By doing that, he acknowledged the chinese audience and foregrounded to a worldwide audience the biggest Chinese cultural celebration of all.

I'm now living in a country which does not and probably will not acknowledge this holiday despite the enormous chinese immigrant population in its midst. Australia's public holidays remain stubbornly White Anglo-Saxon Protestant in nature and for the first time, because I will be here during Chinese New Year, I really feel the sting of being in a minority racial group.

I miss garishly red Chinese New Year crap being sold in every other shop and hung up everywhere.

I miss the pineapple tarts and pussy willows and my grandad.

And I even miss helping my mum out with the spring cleaning.

It feels all wrong to be here during Chinese New year; the one moment in the year when I truly acknowledge my cultural roots and draw a little closer to my family.