Sigur Rós

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Final Days Society

Mono

Mooncake

List Of Post Rock Band

1 Mile North (USA, Brooklyn, NY)
1-Speed Bike (Canada, Montréal)
2 By Bukowski (Greece)
2 Litre Dolby (Australia)
3nd (Japan, Tokyo)
3epkano (Ireland, Dublin)
3K (Poland)
4am (USA)
5ive Style
8-Bit Revolution (Canada, Richmond Hill/Toronto)
12twelve (Spain)
21 Grams (China, Shanghai)
27 (USA, Boston, MA)
31 Knots (USA, Portland, OR)33.3 (USA, New Haven, CT)
65Days Of Static (England, Sheffield)
66e (Ireland, Dublin)
90 Day Men (USA, Chicago, IL)
90° South
100 Pets (UK, Brighton)
417.3 (Russia)
1099 (Norway, Trondheim)

]]> http://mlbtstl.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/45/feed/ 0 mlbtstl sigur ros pg.lost FINAL DAYS SOCIETY mono Mooncake http://mlbtstl.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/13/ http://mlbtstl.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/13/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:27:44 +0000 mlbtstl http://mlbtstl.wordpress.com/?p=13 ]]> Chinese New Year (CNY) is the festival i like the most. The 2010 Chinese New Year falls on Sunday February 14 – the Year of the Tiger. Each year is denoted by an animal.

According to Chinese traditional calendar, Chinese New Year 2010 is year of the tiger. It is the ji-chou year. “Jji” is the sixth of the Ten Celestial Stems and yin is the third of the Twelve Terrestrial Branches and states the year of the Tiger.

The Chinese New Year has a great history. In our past, people lived in an agricultural society and worked all year long. They only took a break after the harvest and before the planting of seeds. This happens to coincide with the beginning of the lunar New Year.

The Chinese New Year is very similar to the Western one, rich in traditions, folklore and rituals. It has been said that it is a combination of the Western Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year. This is hardly an exaggeration!

Preparations tend to begin a month before the date of the Chinese New Year (similar to a Western Christmas). During this time people start buying presents, decoration materials, food and clothing. A huge clean-up gets underway days before the New Year, when Chinese houses are cleaned from top to bottom. This ritual is supposed to sweep away all traces of bad luck. Doors and windowpanes are often given a new coat of paint, usually red, then decorated with paper cuts and couplets with themes such as happiness, wealth and longevity printed on them.

The eve of the New Year is perhaps the most exciting part of the holiday, due to the anticipation. Here, traditions and rituals are very carefully observed in everything from food to clothing. Dinner is usually a feast of seafood and dumplings, signifying different good wishes. Delicacies include prawns, for liveliness and happiness, dried oysters ( ho xi), for all things good, fish dishes or Yau-Yu to bring good luck and prosperity, Fai-chai (Angel Hair), an edible hair-like seaweed to bring prosperity, and dumplings boiled in water (Jiaozi) signifying a long-lasting good wish for a family. It is customary to wear something red as this color is meant to ward off evil spirits. But black and white are frowned upon, as these are associated with mourning. After dinner, families sit up for the night playing cards, board games or watching television programmers dedicated to the occasion. At midnight, fireworks light up the sky.

新的一年，新的开始；心的祝福，心的起点。
祝大家新的一年里，所有的希望都能如愿，所有的梦想都能实现，所有的期待都能出现，所有的付出都能兑现！也希望大家祝我新的一年有新希望。倒霉了一整年，几乎整年是活在黑暗里。希望新的一年有新开始。扫去一年的疲惫和风尘，让我们共同在新的一年里，努力奋斗！希望你一切都顺利！新春佳节，吉祥如意！恭喜发财！！！

Anger comes to us easily, if we don’t know how to handle and control our anger meditation, it’s definitely affecting our life and it will make us depress all the time. Anger doesn’t solve our problem. So we should learn to avoid argue and avoid the unnecessary fuss, learn to consider and learn to deal when we get mad. The more important is learns to face and learn to solve our problem. ♥♥ ^_^