A.P.P.L.E

This is simple and quick. Don’t know if other browsers have such function or not. Anyway, if you are a Firefox user, you can try this (if you don’t know yet). I personally only know this after watching the vid =.= And later I discovered that my bookmark actually already have this setup, instead of using “g” as the keyword, it was set to “google”. Now, I’ve changed it to “g”, so that I just need to type “g” to perform a quick google search, for instance, g keyword

15 days of Chinese New Year celebration. It finally come to an end yesterday (4th March 2007, the 15th day of the 1st month of Lunar year). At this day, which is the last day of Chinese New Year celebration, Chinese family usually have another gathering which each of the family member has a reunion dinner together. Some will have the reunion for lunch instead of dinner. I had mine at noon, because I needed to work (even it was a Sunday) at night.

Anyway, the Chinese New Year this year, really, I didn’t feel any much different with normal days.. this year even worse, no visiting, no fireworks, no anything. But I’m glad that I get to spend 1 week freedom without family around XP

Last day of Chinese New Year, fireworks all around. Here is a photo taken by my friend Neonplanet. I think it’s very beautiful that I really want to post it in my blog to show everyone. ^^

This morning, I just stumbled some videos around..and I found this thing. To be honest, I also search for cracks that are available if I want to use a full program. And of course risking my computer’s life..lol

But look at this..that’s terrible ><

Hina Matsuri, the Japanese Doll Festival (雛祭り), or “Girls’ Day” takes place on March 3. This is the day families pray for the happiness and prosperity of their girls and to help ensure that they grow up healthy and beautiful. The celebration takes place both inside the home and at the seashore. Both parts are meant to ward off evil spirits from girls.A girl’s first “Girls’ Day” is called her hatzu-zekku. On a girl’s hatzu-zekku it is very popular for the girl’s granparents to buy her a display doll. Most families take out this display of dolls around mid-February and put it away immediately after Hina Matsuri is over. There is a superstition that says that families slow to put away the dolls will have trouble marrying off their daughters!

Source: http://farstrider.net/Japan/Festivals/HinaMatsuri/
More Information on Hina Matsuri: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri

It’s so cool of Japan to celebrate such a cute event! Unlike Chinese, Japanese treasure the girls, wishing that their young girls will obtain happiness and prosperity. Not like most Chinese, even in this new era, still prefer to have sons more than daughters. Or treasure the sons more than the opposite.