Happy Chinese New Year!

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  1. dragonalumni

    dragonalumni Elemental Warrior

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    Today is Chinese New Year, the biggest holiday for 1.5 billion people every year. Lots of fireworks and everyone is calibrating in a way that reminds me of Christmas, except the
    Church part but I usually skipped that anyways. Anyways.. Happy New Year.

    (I've taught in China for 3 years, I'm from Minnesota.. I don't miss the cold..
    A few days ago I was walking outside in a t-shirt and shorts, though this week it's
    been 0 degrees at night time.. I hope this cold snap ends soon..)
     
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  2. GuardianAngel82

    GuardianAngel82 Senior Member

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    That sounds like Houston. A-shirt 2 days ago, but 45F this morning (about 8C to all you "foreign types"). Just had vegetarian lunch with 2 Vietnamese expatriots. (Am not a vegetarian, prefer small children, uncooked, still kicking and giggling.)

    Keong si fat hai! or is it Keong hai fat choi! ?
     
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  3. Zebedee

    Zebedee Veteran Member Veteran

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    Happy year of the Rat! :Crazy_Lio
     
    Zebedee, Feb 7, 2008
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  4. sirchet

    sirchet Force for Goodness Moderator Supporter

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    75 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit here in sunny Florida.

    Tsing Daou!...that's all the Chinese I know, and it's just the name of a beer. :)
     
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  5. krunch

    krunch moving on in life

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    Godzilla, Toyota, Yokohama ... wait, those are Japanese words. D'oh!..
     
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  6. twisty

    twisty Morose Marauder

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    Happy Chinese ny to all as well.

    As co-incidence has it, I am actually in Hong Kong celebrating NY with my fiance and her family. This is also the reason that I haven't played kotb yet.
     
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  7. Shiningted

    Shiningted I changed this damn title, finally! Administrator

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    Gong xi fa cai from me, Yvy (1/4 Chinese) and Kecik (1/8 chinese).
     
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    Sae hae bohk mani badeuseyo from Korea!
     
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    Allyx Master Crafter Global Moderator Supporter

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    Yada yada yada from the UK. ;)
     
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  10. Zebedee

    Zebedee Veteran Member Veteran

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    Yada yada yada back to you from the North of the UK. But soon to be in Beijing once the darned weather there is suitable for me!
     
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  11. twisty

    twisty Morose Marauder

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    I was over there last week and it was brutally cold (-10) -- for an Aussie at least. Still, there's no snow there at present and it has fared better than some other parts of China within the last 2 weeks or so.
     
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  12. Zebedee

    Zebedee Veteran Member Veteran

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    Yeah - I've been told to wait just a tad longer or I'll be on the next plane back to Britain cursing ever going ;)
     
    Zebedee, Feb 22, 2008
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  13. Shiningted

    Shiningted I changed this damn title, finally! Administrator

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    -10 is when poms head to the beach, isn't it? :icon_chuc
     
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  14. GuardianAngel82

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    pom = Prisoner of Mother England ?
     
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  15. Zebedee

    Zebedee Veteran Member Veteran

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    pom = apple in French :stoned:


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    No, -5 is beach weather. -10 is stay at home and wonder who on earth turned off the Gulf stream!
     
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