Time of the Year

It’s that time of the year again…
The time when a year comes to an end as well as a year starts all over.
It’s the time of the year, in which I:
- Notice how I never keep my promises of updating blogs
- Try to keep updating in the new year
- Try updating knowing that I will fail miserably
- Trying to find a new start….

dunno what i’m trying to say here.

Everything simply put, Happy New Year!
Hope everything was OK in the past year and will be OK in the coming year as well.

“New Start”

Before I start, I would like to let the readers know that this is a rough translation from Korean to English and the “feel” of the text could be lost. Please excuse.

New Start 

The word “start” is a beautiful word.
Start of a year, start of a week, in small terms, start of a day,
the word depicts an infinite amount of hope.
The new calendar I stare at sends me a message of new start,
a message of strong hope. I could still
start all over again as many times as I want.
As long as I busily prepare myself for the
new start of today and the days that follow,
I could always remain as a young man.

- Gang Chon Lee ¡¶A town with a double rainbow¡·

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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…

Happy New Year

By this time, I am pretty sure that all the populated time zones are already in the year 2008.
Maybe Anchorage is still in 2007 right now, but I don’t know anyone there so whatever… haha

So Merry Christmas (I’m used to saying that so much lately lol) HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I hope all you guys have a new year’s resolution and keep up with the goal. As my mom always says, it’s better to be a person with a goal and fail rather than a person of no goal and reach nowhere. Good luck! “»õÇØ º¹ ¸¹ÀÌ ¹ÞÀ¸¼¼¿ä!”

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…