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On the 29th of January, it will be a new Chinese Year.
The Year of Rooster is over! Here comes the Year of the Dog.

If you're Chinese, you'd know this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year

Fung Way Fat Choi

Fung Way Fat Chow

Kung hee fat choi (that's the Hakka version). :D

Kung hee fat choi (that's the Hakka version). :D how do you spell it really ?

ho do you spell really ?

Depends who you ask. There's more than one Chinese dialect (in fact, lots) and they all differ a little from each other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_spoken_language

My mother is Cantonese and my father is Hokkien. :)

Depends who you ask. There's more than one Chinese dialect (in fact, lots) and they all differ a little from each other.
I see

I see

Most commonly used is the Mandarin version - Gong Xi Fa Cai.

Arrgh the chinese Boats are nothing more than paper and float about as wel as orogami yarr.
Their wimmens on the other hand they can float my jetsom' any day yarr.

Happy New Year!

Why can't we have a calendar based on the Moon, too? And then state on our calendar everyday that a solar year goes by... that would be nice.... Make more sense, too.

Arrgh the chinese Boats are nothing more than paper and float about as wel as orogami yarr.
Their wimmens on the other hand they can float my jetsom' any day yarr.

The origin of Origami is in dispute whether it's Japanese or Chinese. :)
Folding paper isn't a big thing with us Chinese.

Most commonly used is the Mandarin version - Gong Xi Fa Cai.
thank you

Year of the dog?
You're the man now, dog!

I was born in year of the monkey in 1968

Chinese new year is the 29th of january?!
That's my birthday!!
WOOT!!!

Hooray for Chinese New Year!

nee how mah?

i was born in the year of the dragon


(at least that is what witnesses to the event told me, i myself have to rely on it, as i cannot remember it myself)

nee how mah?

i was born in the year of the dragon


(at least that is what witnesses to the event told me, i myself have to rely on it, as i cannot remember it myself)

All you need to know is your date of birth. :)

All you need to know is your date of birth. :)but that exactly is the point, how can i really be sure about the date of my birth? i have to rely on other peoples reports, because i cannot remember it myself.

but that exactly is the point, how can i really be sure about the date of my birth? i have to rely on other peoples reports, because i cannot remember it myself.

That would mean you were born around 1988, 1976 or 1964.

Goh.

The origin of Origami is in dispute whether it's Japanese or Chinese. :)
Folding paper isn't a big thing with us Chinese.

I think it would be safe to say that traditional origami originated in China, simply because the origin of paper can be traced to China.

"Modern" origami's origins would be firmly in Japan, attributed to Akira Yoshizawa's system of codifying diagrams.

Yes, I'm an origami nut.:D

year of the goat. actually the Chinese astrology about it suits me to a T. western astrology doesn't

Fung Way Fat Choi
Isn't it Gung Hay Fat Choy?

On the 29th of January, it will be a new Chinese Year.
The Year of Rooster is over! Here comes the Year of the Dog.

If you're Chinese, you'd know this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_YearNooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I was born in the year of the rooster.:D! Also I have a pet rooster!:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

One of my friends is Cantonese and got around $480 from his relatives for chinese new year. Lucky bastard.

Chinese new year is the 29th of january?!
That's my birthday!!
WOOT!!!

Not quite. This year it is the 29th though it differs on a yearly basis depending on the stance of the moon.

Sorry I was a bit late. I'm born in the year of ram.

I'm Cantonese.