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Chinese new year Tiger show
In a Chinese restaurant in England a Tiger makes an appearance dancing around the venue and having a jolly tiger ing time!
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New Years eve 2008 IED fireworks blowing up food
Gone with the traditional fireworks 2008 is time for blowing up a pumpkin and bottle of drink
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Happy new years party pub with invisible people
Went to a pub and it was dead........but here is some of the action......we made it look 'banging'. The guy on the little electric scooter who makes a cameo in this clip i filmed broke out the monopoly at about 11:50pm! Went to a pub and it was dead........but here is some of the action......we made it look 'banging'. The guy on the little el... more
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Chinese new year Tiger show
In a Chinese restaurant in England a Tiger makes an appearance dancing around the venue and having a jolly tiger ing time!
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China welcomes the lunar Year of the Rat
"As the rat replaces the pig, China enters a year that defines its future... A time for celebration, but rising prices and Olympic fever raise expectations."
The spring festival usually brings a time to relax and celebrate, but with the worst winter on record still effecting thousands of Chinese, as well as with food prices rising, Olympic expectations, talk that the economic high-growth phase may have peaked, and concern about the government's ability to address these expectations, China rings in this new year under more pressure than any other in decades.
Nonetheless, in the week leading up to today's new year celebrations, "shoppers were happily oblivious to their responsibility to rescue the world economy. The week before the spring festival is a peak of consumption as people splurge on new year gifts, food for family banquets and red seasonal decorations bearing rat symbols and wishes for good fortune." "As the rat replaces the pig, China enters a year that defines its future... A time for celebration, but rising prices and Olympi... more -
Green Gyms
If you're just about to sign on the dotted line for a gym membership, stop right there. Because 2008 is less about treadmills and all about the big wild open.
Why not check out some of these alternatives; If you're just about to sign on the dotted line for a gym membership, stop right there. Because 2008 is less about treadmills an... more -
Looking Back: What We Watched, Read and Listened To In 2007
Our Top 10 lists of essential DVDs, books and CDs.
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New Year's Resolutions: Achieving Your Goals For The Present Moment and Beyon...
by Michelle
So, have you made any New Year's resolutions lately? If you have chosen a goal or two for 2008, it is important to take the time to nurture those goals like baby seedlings in springtime. It's not enough to write them down in your journal, close it up and forget about them for another year. Reviewing your goals on a regular basis serves two purposes: to remind yourself of the specifics and to re-evaluate whether they are still appropriate goals for you. Sometimes new paths present themselves as you progress towards your goal, and that new path may actually be a better fit for you than your original goal. Making the most of goals involves finding a balance between single-pointed focus and openness to new opportunities.
In order to make sure that your goals actually get the attention they deserve, schedule time for them. If your goal is to get fit, join a fitness class that happens at the same time every week so that you will make time for it in your busy life. If you want to be a musician, join an ensemble. Then you will be motivated to go make music with friends instead of letting your fellow group members down by staying home in front of the TV instead. Remind yourself of the reasons why this goal is important to you, and how working towards it improves your daily life. Take the time to appreciate the changes you feel when you work towards your goals, and use those feelings to fuel your continued efforts.
"The obstacle is the path." ? Zen Proverb
Coming up against difficulty or opposition does not necessarily mean that you are on the wrong path. If you get stuck in your progress or stumble on an obstacle, sit down and look at your goals again. Is there another route that will lead to the same end goal? Sometimes stepping back and working on another aspect of your goal can allow other opportunities to arise. And remember that obstacles are a normal part of life and are to be expected. It is by overcoming obstacles and problems that we learn and grow in life, gaining valuable skills and experience along the way. When you know you are on the right path, working towards a meaningful goal, you can undertake the work presented by any obstacle with joy and gratitude.
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New Year's Resolutions: Choosing Your Goals For The Present Moment and Beyond
by Michelle
Is 2008 the year? You know, the one where you quit smoking, get fit, kick-start your career, or de-clutter your house? The dawn of the New Year is traditionally a time to set goals for the year ahead, but why should we bother with making resolutions?
"If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time"
- Author Unknown
Sitting down and working out what your goals are is a practice in self-exploration that will help you understand yourself better. Having specific, meaningful goals for yourself will also help you focus your energy on working towards those goals, and will help you make decisions in your life that foster the achievement of those goals rather than letting yourself be subject to the whims of others or the unpredictable winds of chance. Setting and completing achievable goals is also a good way to build self-confidence. Achieving things that are personally meaningful and important to you provides a boost to your self-esteem and improves your self-image.
Since part of the key to using goals as useful tools in your life is choosing personal, appropriate and achievable goals, how do we go about choosing them? Goal setting is a very future-oriented activity, which means that it is easy to find that there is a disconnect between your goals and your daily life. You may have a goal to quit smoking, but when you come back to the present moment after thinking about your future non-smoking self, your current identity as a smoker takes over again and urges you to have another cigarette.
According to motivational blogger Steve Pavlina, the key to setting goals that are realistic and meaningful to you in the present moment is to ask yourself how working towards this goal will change your current existence. The past and the future really only exist in our imagination, but the present moment is all we ever really have. When our goals improve the quality of our life in the present moment, it doesn't matter whether the goal is even achievable in our lifetime or not, because it is worth working towards for the benefits we gain right now. The goals of cleaning up our greenhouse gas emissions and living more simply may seem so huge they are unachievable, but when we can see tangible benefits in our lives from making small changes we are more motivated to keep working towards our goals.
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43 Things: Making New Year's Resolutions Fun
by Lael
Where do folks with screen names like "releaserina" and "misnomers" express their deepest desires, both light and dark? Well 43 of their wants are listed in order of priority on the website 43Things.com, and yours can be too!
For no more than a few minutes sign up time, you can join a large community of goal-setters, 78 members of which wish to "attain enlightenment." (Maybe they need to spend more time reading Daily Mantra?) By comparison, a full 27,584 wish to "lose weight." So, yes, the flesh does seem to be beating out the spirit on this network of goal setters by at least a small margin. But we won't be haters; people should want what they want. And, anyway, one thing that makes 43Things.com so fun and fascinating is the wide range of interests and values represented.
Since the site is as anonymous as its participants wish it to be, there is a nakedness to many of the desires listed as well. Anyone who has seen The Secret (4 members wish to "do" it) or in any way dabbled in The Law of Attraction (183 wish to "master" it) knows the importance of goal setting. 43things.com makes this process fun. Even folks who always feel stumped and blank when asked what they want will become inspired as they start poking around and reading through the many, many goals on view. Some of these are whimsical ("memorize an ironic poem of appropriate length so that the memorization can be used as a party trick, of course only at low-key, intellectualish parties"-13 people, "learn to whistle with my fingers"-42 people) and others deadly serious ("overcome cancer"-6 people, "accept that I have HIV"-1 person).
Virtual camaraderie abounds on 43things.com where participants cheer one another on, make themselves available to give advice regarding goals they've already reached, and write brief entries regarding their own progress or lack thereof on particular goals. So, if you are ready for a more focused year ahead, if you want to try something new, achieve something meaningful, or simply have more fun, check out the aspirations of your fellow websurfers on 43Things.com. Then take a moment to write out your own goals for 2008 and beyond. Whether you realize it or not, doing so and then revisiting, rereading and occasionally amending your list will make all the difference.
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My Wishes For You All
May you have a Christmas / Hanukkah / Eid / Kwanzaa / Yule full of joy, and may 2008 bring us all that we need and yearn for - health, happiness, prosperity, success, and..... a decent president for the USA.
Hugs to you all!
Vierotchka
P.S. Click on the pic to get it in its actual size and resolution, and if you like it, help yourself. :) May you have a Christmas / Hanukkah / Eid / Kwanzaa / Yule full of joy, and may 2008 bring us all that we need and yearn for - health,... more -
Do You Know What You're Doing For New Year?
Please tell us what you are doing for New Year!
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