Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, the last day of the year of Snake. Happy new year!

[muckshifter]

Gong Xi Fa Cai (Mandarin) and Gong Hey Fat Choy (Cantonese).

Gong Xi Fa Cai means wishing you to be prosperous in the coming year.

"Happy New Year" in English is "New Year Happy" in Chinese: Xin Nian Kuai Le.




here ends your lessons for today.

 

[EvanDavis]

I look forward to the sleepless night with endless fireworks going off. Best go get some valium for the dogs.

 

[floppybootstomp]

Dragons on Sunday in Chinatown near Soho then. If it's stopped raining by then may actually take a ride up there for a stroll to catch the festivities.

 

[nivrip]

Lots of fireworks going off near me.

I assume that it's for the Chinese New Year. Year of the horse. Hope it doesn't upset the horses.

 

[Anon_F]

A good reason to let of fireworks, again!
Happy New Year to all those celebrating.

 

[EvanDavis]

Lots of fireworks going off near me.

A good reason to let of fireworks,

Now if it was just the Chinese celebrating their 'oliday it would be ok. But we have the cheap cider drinking, track suit wearing, work dodgers also setting them off in my area.

 

[Abarbarian]

Celebrities Born in the Year of the Horse
Louisa May Alcott, Chopin, Davy Crockett, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Sandra Day O'Connor, Rembrandt, Teddy Roosevelt, Sir Isaac Newton, Barbara Streisand, Cindy Crawford, Cynthia Nixon, Denzel Washington, Harrison Ford, Jason Biggs, Jackie Chan, Jerry Seinfeld, John Travolta, Leonard Bernstein, Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney, Rembrandt, Ashton Kutcher, Emma Watson, Josh Hartnett, Katie Holmes, Kristen Stewart, Kobe Bryant, Genghis Khan, Emperor Kangxi and Yongzheng of China’s Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911)

Late again. Have a wonderful year of the horse folks.