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It’s almost the time of Chinese New Year 2010 or it’s also called Lunar New Year by English speakers. This year, Chinese New Year (or Hari Raya Imlek in Indonesian language) will be celebrated at the same with Valentine’s Day, which is February 14th. Unfortunately, this Indonesian National Holiday is at Sunday. I mean unfortunately because I was hoping for extra holiday in workdays. Hahaha. Well, everyone has their wishes.

Chinese New Year 2010 will the transition from Ox Year into Tiger Year. Many things will happen this year, some could be good things, some could be bad things. As for Chinese or whoever celebrates this Lunar New Year, there is belief of Chinese Zodiac, Fortune Cookies and Chinese Lucky Symbols. What are they?

If you are familiar with Astrological Sign, then Chinese Zodiac is quite similar. The difference is Astrological Sign is assigned based on in which date range does your birthday fell and Chinese Zodiac is assigned based on your birth year. There are 12 animals representing the year. As for 2009, the animal is Ox and Tiger for 2010.

Meanwhile, Fortune Cookies is crisp cookie with “fortune” paper wrapped inside it. You can usually find it in Chinese Restaurant or access this Fortune Cookies application.

What about Chinese Lucky Symbols? Chinese characters usually have one or more meanings and some of them are particularly loved by Chinese people. You can pick one for yourself using this Chinese Lucky Symbols application.

Having these three information, I hope you will cherish the Chinese New Year celebration.

By the way, Cap Go Meh will be celebrated on March 1st, 2010. And don’t forget to give me angpao (money in red envelope), OK?

Well, I just realized that I only posted one article after I delivered my Happy New Year 2009 message last year. Pathetic right? Not really an example of a discipline blogger. Well, everyone has their time for that.

Quoting from Charles Dickens (English novelist (1812 - 1870))’ book, A Tale of Two Cities:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only”

What can I say, 2009 maybe one case of the worst of times and lack of wisdom :D.
It’s 2010 now. Before talking about this year, I want to congratulate you with Merry Christmas 2009 and Happy New Year 2010. It’s not late to say Merry Christmas, in fact, I’ll have my first Christmas celebration this year in my place (last year Christmas is sometimes celebrated after 25th of December and in January the next year here). I can only wish that 2010 will be a great year for us, in respect of love, economic, work, relationship with family, friends, colleague, study or whatever thing you want to achieve this year.

Last but not the least, keep visiting my website, please don’t hesitate to comment. Okay?