January 25, 2009
Hello All! Happy Year of the Ox!
Today is the New Year as celebrated on the Lunar calendar. I was happily surprised today when I walked in to church today and saw so many Chinese-American families dressed in traditional, formal dress. (If you haven't seen the wardrobe I am talking about, you really should take the time to search out how China celebrates the Lunar New Year.)
My family and I celebrated to some extent in our own Korean-American ways (this time of year is also celebrated by Koreans). We had wonderful foods like bulgogi, dumpling soup, asian pears, hoduk, and of course, kimch'i. It was delicious, thanks to my wife and her cousin!
Each year I enjoy this wonderful holiday, I think how blessed I am to have a wonderful family and a beautiful wife. As always, I hope that the coming year will be better than the previous, and that we all can appreciate each others kindness, looking beyond each others faults.
This year is the year of the Ox; the year of the powerful and calm; year of the strong and silent. The ox is the symbol of the patient thinker and the hard worker. All of these traits I hope to work on in the upcoming year, and wish the best of success to my friends and loved ones!
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