LL-L "Holidays" 2004.01.18 (05) [E]

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Holidays

Dear Lowlanders,

If you will celebrate New Year's this week (on January 22) -- Chinese 春節
"Spring Festival," Vietnamese _Tết Nguyên Ðán_, short "Tết" -- best wishes
to you and yours on behalf of everyone on Lowlands-L!

     恭喜發財
     Gong xi fa cai!  [Mandarin]
     Gung hei faat coi!  [Cantonese]
     Kiung hi fat ts'oi!  [Hakka]
     Giong hi huad zai! [Hokkien]
     Chúc mừng năm mới! [Vietnamese]

I hope you will have pleasant and safe journeys if you go to reunite with
your families.  (And don't eat yourselves sick!)

I was "rudely" reminded of this holiday about an hour ago.  While I was
peacefully shopping for groceries in an unusually busy Chinatown, some lion
dancers followed, cornered and attacked me with noisy and smelly
firecrackers.  I was spared some horrible fate only when I stuck "lucky
money" down the snapping lion's gullet (in whose depth, strangely, I saw a
greedy hand rather than a tongue for a split second ...).  The situation was
made even worse by a pair of very alarmed, barking and yelping fox terriers
(not mine, though I wish they had been) trying to save folks from the evil
creature.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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