Here got some view that i had catch on my last trip to kundasang..em, very cool oo there..til i get sleep early oo..n at there i force to wearing a thick blanket oo..force switch off the fan..em,very not comfortable oo..but at early morning..i can c the mount of kinabalu infornt of my eyes..really beautiful oo..
The history of Christmas dates back over 4000 years. Many of our Christmas traditions were celebrated centuries before the Christ child was born. The 12 days of Christmas, the bright fires, the yule log, the giving of gifts, carnivals (parades) with floats, carolers who sing while going from house to house, the holiday feasts, and the church processions can all be traced back to the early Mesopotamians.
Many of these traditions began with the Mesopotamian celebration of New Years. The Mesopotamians believed in many gods, and as their chief god – Marduk.
Each year as winter arrived it was believed that Marduk would do battle with the monsters of chaos. To assist Marduk in his struggle the Mesopotamians held a festival for the New Year. This was Zagmuk, the New Year’s festival that lasted for 12 days.
The Mesopotamian king would return to the temple of Marduk and swear his faithfulness to the god. The traditions called for the king to die at the end of the year and to return with Marduk to battle at his side.
To spare their king, the Mesopotamians used the idea of a “mock” king. A criminal was chosen and dressed in royal clothes. He was given all the respect and privileges of a real king. At the end of the celebration the “mock” king was stripped of the royal clothes and slain, sparing the life of the real king.
The Persians and the Babylonians celebrated a similar festival called the Sacaea. Part of that celebration included the exchanging of places, the slaves would become the masters and the masters were to obey.
Early Europeans believed in evil spirits, witches, ghosts and trolls. As the Winter Solstice approached, with its long cold nights and short days, many people feared the sun would not return. Special rituals and celebrations were held to welcome back the sun.
In Scandinavia during the winter months the sun would disappear for many days. After thirty-five days scouts would be sent to the mountain tops to look for the return of the sun. When the first light was seen the scouts would return with the good news.
A great festival would be held, called the Yuletide, and a special feast would be served around a fire burning with the Yule log. Great bonfires would also be lit to celebrate the return of the sun. In some areas people would tie apples to branches of trees to remind themselves that spring and summer would return.
The ancient Greeks held a festival similar to that of the Zagmuk/Sacaea festivals to assist their god Kronos who would battle the god Zeus and his Titans.
The Roman’s celebrated their god Saturn. Their festival was called Saturnalia which began the middle of December and ended January 1st. With cries of “Jo Saturnalia!” the celebration would include masquerades in the streets, big festive meals, visiting friends, and the exchange of good-luck gifts called Strenae (lucky fruits).
The Romans decked their halls with garlands of laurel and green trees lit with candles. Again the masters and slaves would exchange places. “Jo Saturnalia!” was a fun and festive time for the Romans, but the Christians though it an abomination to honor the pagan god. The early Christians wanted to keep the birthday of their Christ child a solemn and religious holiday, not one of cheer and merriment as was the pagan Saturnalia.
But as Christianity spread they were alarmed by the continuing celebration of pagan customs and Saturnalia among their converts. At first the Church forbid this kind of celebration. But it was to no avail. Eventually it was decided that the celebration would be tamed and made into a celebration fit for the Christian Son of God.
Some legends claim that the Christian “Christmas” celebration was invented to compete against the pagan celebrations of December. The 25th was not only sacred to the Romans but also the Persians whose religion Mithraism was one of Christianity’s main rivals at that time. The Church eventually was successful in taking the merriment, lights, and gifts from the Saturanilia festival and bringing them to the celebration of Christmas.
The exact day of the Christ child’s birth has never been pinpointed. Traditions say that it has been celebrated since the year 98 AD. In 137 AD the Bishop of Rome ordered the birthday of the Christ Child celebrated as a solemn feast. In 350 AD another Bishop of Rome, Julius I, choose December 25th as the observance of Christmas.
In the late 300’s, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. By 1100, Christmas had become the most important religious festival in Europe, and Saint Nicholas was a symbol of gift giving in many European countries. During the 1400’s and 1500’s, many artists painted scenes of the Nativity, the birth of Jesus. An example of these works appears in the Jesus Christ article in the print version of The World Book Encyclopedia.
The popularity of Christmas grew until the Reformation, a religious movement of the 1500’s. This movement gave birth to Protestantism. During the Reformation, many Christians began to consider Christmas a pagan celebration because it included nonreligious customs.
During the 1600’s, because of these feelings, Christmas was outlawed in England and in parts of the English colonies in America. The old customs of feasting and decorating, however, soon reappeared and blended with the more Christian aspects of the celebration.
Pictures of X’mas
The Funniest of Santa Claus
The Tree of X’mas within Candle Light
X’mas Decoration Arts..:p
Merry X’mas 2008 & Happy New Year 2009
A Comic’s Cartoon about X’mas
A Kitty Wish to Us X’mas..
The Blue of X’mas
Candle of X’mas Tree..
Love’s God..X’mas is God
To All My Fellow Friend..Hppy X’mas 08 n Hppy New Year 09
Joo Yoo Rin is an imposter, proficient in English, Chinese, and Japanese, while Seol Gong Chan is the second generation heir of a big corporation. Because of his grandfather’s illness, he asks Yoo Rin to act as his long-lost cousin so that his grandfather’s last wish can be fulfilled. So therefore, they are both bound in a lie that no-one in the family knows the truth of.
Gong Chan’s charming and intelligent ex-girlfriend, Kim Sae Hyun, dreams to become a world-famous tennis star with the nickname “Sharapova of Korea”. She leaves Korea and her boyfriend Gong Chan to fulfill her dream. Upon returning to Korea after winning the title, she works hard at getting back with Gong Chan, thus causing both she and Yoo Rin to compete for Gong Chan’s affection.
To make matters more complicated, womanizer Seo Jeong Woo, who is Gong Chan’s best friend, falls for Yoo Rin and finally learns to love that special someone despite being an “accomplished” playboy.
Joo Yoorin (Lee Da Hae) is a tour guide in a small company in charge of running mini tours in the Jeju Island of South Korea. Her father is a gambling addict, but despite all the debts that he runs up, Yoorin always finds a way to help repay them. She leads a below-average life but is happy as long as she has her dad around her. Because of her father’s gambling ways, she has had to move from country to country whenever her father runs from one place to another to avoid their debtors. This has in turn brought her the ability to converse fluently in Chinese and Japanese, which are of great help as a tour guide whenever she has to entertain tourists from China and Japan.
Seol Gongchan (Lee Dong Wook) is the only heir of the owner of L’Avenuel Hotel, which is one of the top hotels in Korea. His grandfather, Seol Woong, charges him with the duty of finding his granddaughter, who is also Gongchan’s cousin. Seol Woong had disowned his own daughter, Gongchan’s aunt, when she decided to marry a man not of his choice. However, when Seol Woong had a change of heart and wished to accept his daughter back, an earthquake struck where his daughter lived, and since then, he has lost all contact with his kin and perhaps the chance to make amends for his own stubbornness, to take care of his granddaughter and hopefully make things right.
Kim Seohyun (Park Si Yeon) is the girlfriend of Seol Gongchan. A rising star in the tennis world, she returns to Korea to look for Gongchan as she cannot forget him.
Seo Jung Woong (Lee Jun Ki) is the son of one of the main shareholders of L’Avenuel Hotel and also the best friend of Seol Gongchan. Unlike Gongchan who is responsible and hardworking, Jung Woong is a flirt who is known to have many girlfriends.
The story starts with Yoorin rushing to the airport. She is helping her friend delay a flight so that the tourists of her friend will not miss their flight. Out of ideas, she plays a damsel in distress, who is apparently mourning her impending death and her dying wish to see her boyfriend who is apparently on the flight. And so after much crying and the entire airport empathizing with her, she gets to get on board the plane to look for her boyfriend who never really existed. As she walks, she realizes she cannot find anyone and pretends to faint. Alas, she faints beside the seat of our male lead, Seol Gongchan, who knows a liar when he sees one. Although their first encounter is weird, it doesn’t leave much of an impression in each other’s mind.
Later, however, when Gongchan has to entertain a bunch of Chinese visitors and realizes he has no translator, he engages the services of Yoorin coincidentally and through Yoorin, his potential Chinese investors have a great time at the L’Avenuel Hotel branch in Jeju, and Yoorin has much credit to claim for it.
After a series of comical events including Yoorin staying at his hotel lodge without paying, and Yoorin selling his hotel fruityard’s oranges to make a small profit (to clear her father’s debts again), Gongchan’s impression of Yoorin is one of a cheat and he would want to do anything to distance himself from her.
But then word from mainland Korea is that his grandfather is dying and at his bedside, Seol Woong, through his respirator, can only meekly repeat that he must not and cannot die until he sees his granddaughter again.
Driven by desperation and his love for his grandfather, Gongchan will do anything to ease his burden. When pointed out by his secretary that Yoorin bears a resemblance to his aunt, Gongchan hatches a plan to pass off Yoorin as his grandfather’s long-lost granddaughter whilst he carries on searching for the real one.
Yoorin, who is desperate for money to repay her father’s debt, is unwilling to do the job as it involves lying to a dying man, something that she staunchly refuses to do. But when Seol Gongchan desperately begs her and she realizes she is somewhat indebted to him for not bringing her to the police after her little business in his hotel, she caves in and pretends to the long-lost granddaughter.
And so things seem to be going well, with the search for Gongchan’s long-lost cousin making progress and perhaps more importantly, the improvement of Gongchan’s grandfather’s conditions thanks to Yoorin. As Yoorin spends more time with Gongchan’s family, she gets showered with the love she never received as a child and finds herself drawn to Gongchan. She finds herself changing from the liar that she once was to a person who tries to tell the truth when she can. But she knows all too well that her one-sided love will never materialize as the difference in social status between Gongchan and herself is too big.
But unknown to her, Gongchan is also slowly being drawn to her…
Pictures of MyGirl
Goong Chan the Director..and deeply love to Yoo Rin
Liverpool FC is my favourite team of football sport in England’s club team..so, let support to this team! wish these teams can win the EPL and Eroupean Cup in this season 2008/2009.
Official Website of Liverpool FC : http://www.liverpoolfc.tv, http://www.lfconline.com http://myliverpoolfc.org
The club were founded in 1892, though they had limited success until the appointment of Bill Shankly as manager. Under Shankly Liverpool won three League Championship titles, two FA Cups and the club’s first European trophy the UEFA Cup. During the past 30 years they have been one of the most successful clubs in English and European football, winning four European Cups from between 1977 and 1984. The club experienced a lean period during the 90s, but enjoyed a revival following the advent of the millennium winning a cup treble in 2001, and the club’s fifth European Cup in 2005.
The club’s traditional colours were red and white, however this was changed to all red in the 1960s. Likewise the club’s crest has evolved throughout their history, with flames being added to the crest following the Hillsborough Disaster to honour the 96 Liverpool fans who lost their lives in the disaster. At the Heysel Stadium Disaster, 39 Juventus fans died when a wall collapsed after crowd trouble in the 1985 European Cup Final.
Liverpool have played at Anfield since their formation, although there are plans to move to a new stadium in Stanley Park, which is due to be completed by 2011. Liverpool have a large and diverse fan base, who hold a string of long-standing rivalries with several other clubs; the most notable of these is their fierce rivalry with Manchester United, due to the success of both clubs, as well as their proximity to each other. They also have a big rivalry with city neighbours Everton, with whom they regularly contest the Merseyside derby.
Club History
LC
GP
W
L
D
PT
GD
POS
2008/2009
P
15
10
1
4
34
13
1
2007/2008
P
38
21
4
13
76
39
4
2006/2007
P
38
20
10
8
68
30
3
2005/2006
P
38
25
6
7
82
32
3
2004/2005
P
38
17
14
7
58
11
5
2003/2004
P
38
16
10
12
60
18
4
2002/2003
P
38
18
10
10
64
20
5
2001/2002
P
38
24
6
8
80
37
2
Skartel, Torres, Gerrard, Carragger and Babel..Support for Liverpool!
A story about love and heartbreak, sadness and self-preservation. A naive, cheerful albeit, somewhat of a recluse writer, Han Ji Eun (Song Hye Gyo) is swindled out of everything she owns. Not by strangers, but her best friends! Stranded in another country, she is determined to get home with the help of an actor, Lee Young Jae (Bi), only to find that all which is precious to her has been sold. In an attempt to get her possessions back, she has entered in a contract marriage with Young Jae. It is quite simple, until feelings start to develop. Everyone around them test the “love” Young Jae and Ji Eun have for one another, including Young Jae’s grandmother. In spite of it all, Ji Eun manages to be humorous and endearing – even when her heart is breaking.
Cast
Bi (Rain) as Lee Young Jae
Song Hye Gyo as Han Ji Eun
Han Eun Jung as Kang Hye Won
Kim Sung Soo as Yu Min Hyuk
The 3 Bears Song – Full House (Korean Drama Series)
Some Pictures
Romantik Moment between Lee Young Jae and Han Eun Jung
I love this Drama!
A naive, cheerful albeit, somewhat of a recluse writer, Ji Eun is swindled out of everything she owns. Not by strangers, but her best friends! Stranded in another country, she is determined to get home, only to find that all which is precious to her has been sold. In an attempt to get her possessions back, she has “sell her soul.”
A story about love and heartbreak, sadness and self-preservation. In spite of it all, Ji Eun manages to be humorous and endearing – even when her heart is breaking. This drama features diverse characters: considerate, caring, frank, patient, sticking to the life’s basic values. But no matter how different the personalities, everyone finds happiness in the end.
The four cast of Full House
Time Dorang gaduh2 ni..Very funny oo, so to find out wht is going to happen, just watch to Full House!
I am jelous oo looking at them..did you?
Even just a contract marriage, but they was fall in love deeply..The sweet marriage! happy wedding..hehe..:p
Aja Aja, Fighting! her trademark! don,t imitate ya..
sweet smile :-p ^_^
5 star of Korean Drama!
Happy Holiday to them..Have a nice trip ya..Lee Young Jae and Han Ji Eun..hehe..:p
The thumbnail of pictures which is the 1st chapter of full house..In this part, Lee Young Jae and Han Ji Eun was been met..so, this is the innitial of Full House drama..Dont Forget to Wacht it ya!
After u read his sign, then pay for he $1 ya cz u already been bet by him..hehe..:p
Pity to him..just get 1 sen oni..2lah, if want to be beggar, do some singing la bro..u kan rockers! hehe..:p
Look to his finger..macam black metal punya orang..dare u to donate?
Drunk effect..advise, don’t follow to his habit ya..didnt gud!
Just report to police la bro..wht u waitng for..didnt u love to ur wife?
HTML is language la bro! find some job la for ur food!
The easy way bro..be gigolo la..hehe..:p but to all my gentleman viewer, dont make my advise as ur part time ya..just kidding ba..
Inda payah research..datang ja p Labuan..byk montoko and beer d sana..murah2 g tu..ko mo pa? tapai?chivas?lihing? suka ko la mo pilih pa..tapi ko mo duit ba kan?erm, keja d Utama Jaya la, superstore famous d sana..hehe..:p
Cuba kamu tengok2 ni gambar..After that plse comment la even just a little bit..
Natural dress :p sure sajuk2 kan rasanya..it is comfortable if we wanna having some bath in open lake..then, lepas mandi p’lah berjemur macam c baju kuning tu..hehe..:p
Ui, pa orang tua buat ar? dare u? this is what we called it “the power of tongue” hehe..:p just kidding..
Sexy rite? bukan pa..just wanna to cut cost ba tu dorang..tapi, dorang memang ” aja aja fighting” and ” i wanna to move it..move it!” hehe..:p
The top 3 of sexiest wedding dress in the world..to get the no. 1, pls comment these posts ya..hehe..:p
Ni la fesyen zaman sekarang..kalah2 g zaman dulu2 punya..makin seksi makin mengancam ba kan..itu saya bilang..kalau kamu bilang pa? jadi comment la ya..hehe..:P
If u wanna to enter into her inside..plse make a queue 1st ya..gelap tu sana..so, as my advise..pls bring a torch light ya..