New Year's Greetings

[james84]

So 2007 is over... I'm leaving it with a BIG satiscation (a degree) and a small defeat in love.
Priorities for 2008: taking as many exams as possible, but also... finding a girlfriend!
I'm leaving tomorrow morning for Tuscany (I'll stay close to Siena) and will come back on New Year's Day in the evening, so I'm compelled to greet you now!
Happy New Year everyone!

Giacomo

[holmerz]

Happy new year Giacomo :). You know girlfriend equals no modelling time ;).

\Erik

[Flak]

Happy new years to all friends here :)

[Plushy]

Happy New Year to everyone and i hope you all have a great New Years Eve and good luck nursing the hangovers on new Years Day . :D

[lquah]

HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone.

May the new year bring you good health, success and prosperity and most of all more model kits!! :D :D

Lawrence

[skeletondude]

Happy new year,yo! :D

[greybeard]

Giacomo, James, Erik, Marco, Lawrence, and to those who come later, Happy New Year to you all! This site gives me great pleasure, and I thank you and everyone else for making it as great a place as it is. Dammit, I'm going to get a build of my own going, so you can count my rivets, and we'll be even! Until then, the very best to you and yours, and may all your tiny bits land where you can find them!

Cheers
Scott

[Kreighshoer]

yeah - a happy, healthy and successful new year to all of you! :)

[Coops]

Have a good one men :).
Coops

[Jan Peters]

Happy new year my fellow Planetarians :D
Let it be a good, healthy, loving and modelling year for you all!
see you next year, Jan :)

[jagdpanzer]

Cheers my firends!

I wish you a happy, successful and healthy new year,
till then......

[skeletondude]

Happy new year everyone on PA!!!
It is 1:04 AM and 1-st of January when Im writing this.

[James Tainton]

Good luck

* Opening windows and/or doors is considered to bring in the good luck of the new year.
* Switching on the lights for the night is considered good luck to 'scare away' ghosts and spirits of misfortune that may compromise the luck and fortune of the new year.
* Candy is eaten to ensure the consumer a "sweet" year.
* It is important to have the house completely clean from top to bottom before New Year's Day for good luck in the coming year. (however, as explained below, cleaning the house after New Year's Day is frowned upon)
* Some believe that what happens on the first day of the new year reflects the rest of the year to come. Asians will often gamble at the beginning of the year, hoping to get luck and prosperity.
* Wearing a new pair of slippers that is bought before the new year, because it means to step on the people who gossip about you.
* The night before the new year, bathe yourself in pomelo leaves and some say that you will be healthy for the rest of the new year.

Bad luck

* Buying a pair of shoes is considered bad luck amongst some Chinese. The word "shoes" is a homophone for the word for "rough" in Cantonese, or "evil" in Mandarin.
* Buying a pair of pants is considered bad luck. The word "pants"(kù) is a homophone for the word for "bitter"(kŭ) in Cantonese. (Although some perceive it to be positive, as the word 'pants'(fu) in Cantonese is also a homophone for the word for "wealth".)
* A haircut is considered bad luck. The word "hair" is a homophone for the word for "prosperity". Thus "cutting hair" could be perceived as "cutting away your prosperity" in Cantonese.
* Washing your hair is also considered to be washing away one's own luck (although modern hygienic concerns take precedence over this tradition)
* Sweeping the floor is usually forbidden on the first day, as it will sweep away the good fortune and luck for the new year.
* Talking about death is inappropriate for the first few days of Chinese New Year, as it is considered inauspicious as well.
* Buying books is bad luck because the word for "book" is a homonym to the word "lose".
* Avoid clothes in black and white, as black is a symbol of bad luck, and white is a traditional funeral color.
* Avoid vulgar words. (not only restricted to New Years)

[Panzergrenadier]

A good new year to all of you here! May we all have pleasant times to come!:thumb:

[MikkoH]

Happy New Yar to all of you on PA!:D

[Jan Peters]

* Opening windows and/or doors is considered to bring in the good luck of the new year.

I don't think that would have been a good idea....there was so much smoke, you could hardly see more then 2 meters in front of you :eek:
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa285/Jan-Peters/diversen/nieuwjaar008.jpg

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa285/Jan-Peters/diversen/nieuwjaar007.jpg

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http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa285/Jan-Peters/diversen/nieuwjaar004.jpg

Happy new year!!!

Jan :D

[Axel Repping]

Happy New Year,

and happy modelling to al of you.
Let it be a prosperous year, with loads of new kits.

[Instructorrob]

And a happy New Year from me to all here at PA!

Robert

[james84]

Cheers!
I came back yesterday evening!
And now... well, let me quote a famous proverb: New Year, New Life!
I wish you all a 2008 rich in surprises and good things!