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Interviewing Angeline Yap

Maria S. Mendes

Around that time, I also wrote ‘A Mound of Gold’ during one Chinese New Year season as I stacked mandarin oranges in a bowl to make a mound of golden fruit. 

It is customary to have lots of mandarin oranges in the home, because the Cantonese words for gold and oranges sound almost identical. .... It's aspirational (as in ‘may you have plenty / wealth in the coming year.’)  As a Christian, I would have prayed a prayer that the family - and my home/country - would be rich in harmony, peace, unity, joy, love, etc. and also that my family would walk with God in the coming year. 

It's also a ‘count your blessings’ poem. When you use gratitude to brush up what seems insignificant (dust), God adds His blessing and you find that you hold a Mound of Gold in the palm of your hand.

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