Korea

Yes… I’ve been lazy once again and have decidedly not updated this blog for a while now.

Well… what’d you know… I’m updating it this very minute LOL

Anyhow… For those of you who are in Korea at this current moment, here is my phone number while my time here: 010-9442-3473
For those outside of Korea, you should mark: +(00) – 82 (korea country code) – 10-9442-3473

So yeah…. that number, you can call, and I will answer. Simple, eh?

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Happy New Year!

I hear that many people should be able to unscramble the numbers I posted as the title. Apparantly one of the most elementary encryptions.

I wanted to show you a picture. Here’s the new year festive fireworks going on at midnight. I still can’t find a place where they will show me all the main cities’ fireworks displays. BBC did something like that on tv with different footages last year…. They didn’t do it this year.. *sigh*

Sydney, one of the first cities including others in Japan and
Korea to be the first in greeting the year 2008.
(I can’t find a photo of the typical new year’s in Korea where
they hit a large bell in the middle of Seoul, followed by fireworks)

This year, is the year of the mouse/rat
(BBC called it rat, I don’t like it).
Well, technically speaking, the “year of the mouse” does not officially
start until beginnings of February, because the system is based on
a lunar calendar. The “Chinese New Year” as many call it, is not
“Chinese.” It’s a lunar calendar new year. In East Asia, that new year
is called “old” new year and the solar calendar new year being “new”
new year.
I don’t remember the characteristics of the mouse year…
All I remember is the fact that I was born on the year of the horse.
(A white horse to be exact). Oh! And I also know that last year (2007)
had been the year of the “golden pig.” It was a pig year but supposedly
there’s a “golden” year that comes every 500 or 1000 years or
something. Don’t remember. Either way, everything was supposed
to be for the best last year. (Pig is related to money very easily in
East Asia. Catching a pig in your dream surely guarantees your
chances of winning the lottery. *wink*)

The New Year’s celebration in Taiwan. I love the fact that
everyone counts to zero and the tower literally turns into
a big white flash, blinding everyone nearby. Then, of course,
they have the big fireworks, that goes in sychronization…

New Year

In the far eastern end of the world including many pacific islands as well as Japan, Korea and soon to be more countries in Asia, are already in the year 2008. I don’t know why, but the thought is sorta weird. I’m sitting in my room in front of this computer waiting to go eat lunch with another family, then planning meet xue or someone during the evening then come back home or go to her house and wait patiently until midnight, when we can pop the champaigne.
Oddly, I turn on the TV and it shows other countries who already finished their new year’s festivity. Weird…