Please join this lovely couple’s Dragon Dance!

Chinese New Year (Lunar new year) is the most celebrated holiday on the earth.  1/4 populations on this planet celebrate it.

I think everyone’s artwork is a reflection of his/her own lifestyle.  facebook, twitter, ebay, myspace are the cyber  places I am at…

okay, the next one will be Doll-related.

I dont remember if I have posted this one here, if I did, then, i am reposting it, as I think it is cute.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_string_of_fate

The red string of fate, also referred to as the red thread of destiny, red thread of fate, and other variants, is an East Asian belief originating from Chinese legend and is also used in Japanese legend. According to this myth, the gods tie an invisible red string around the ankles of those that are destined to be soul mates and will one day marry each other. Often, in Japanese culture, it is thought to be tied around the little figner.  According to Chinese legend, the deity in charge of “the red thread” is believed to be Yuè Xià Lǎo (月下老, often abbreviated to “Yuèlǎo” [月老]), the old lunar matchmaker god who is also in charge of marriages.

The two people connected by the red thread are destined lovers, regardless of time, place, or circumstances. This magical cord may stretch or tangle, but never break

One story featuring the red string of fate involves a young boy. Walking home one night, a young boy sees an old man standing beneath the moonlight (Yue Xia Lao). The man explains to the boy that he is attached to his destined wife by a red thread. Yue Xia Lao shows the boy the young girl who is destined to be his wife. Being young and having no interest in having a wife, the young boy picks up a rock and throws it at the girl, running away. Many years later, when the boy has grown into a young man, his parents arrange a wedding for him. On the night of his wedding, his wife waits for him in their bedroom, with the traditional veil covering her face. Raising it, the man is delighted to find that his wife is one of the great beauties of his village. However, she wears an adornment on her eyebrow. He asks her why she wears it and she responds that when she was a young girl, a boy threw a rock at her that struck her, leaving a scar on her eyebrow. She self-consciously wears the adornment to cover it up. The woman is, in fact, the same young girl connected to the man by the red thread shown to him by Yue Xia Lao back in his childhood, showing that they were connected by the red string of fate.

two assailants robbed the Brown’s Chicken restaurant and then proceeded to murder seven employees for less than $2,000 in the cash register

9 years later they were caught  and sentenced to life imprisonment. has the justice been done? no,

they do not deserve to live,  why waste taxpayers’ money to feed these scumbags?  just burn them slowly let them scream and cry before they die.

A PASTOR ONCE ASKED HIS CHURCH TO PRAY THAT GOD would shut down a neighborhood bar. The whole church gathered for an evening prayer meeting, pleading with God to rid the neighborhood of the evils of this bar. A few weeks later, lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground.

Having heard about the church’s prayer crusade, the bar owner promptly sued the church. When the court date finally arrived, the bar owner passionately argued that God struck his bar with lightning because of the church members’ prayers. The pastor backtracked, brushing off the accusations. He admitted the church prayed, but he also affirmed that no one in his congregation really expected anything to happen.

The judge leaned back in his chair, a mix of amusement and perplexity on his face. Finally he spoke: “I can’t believe what I’m hearing. Right in front of me is a bar owner who believes in the power of Prayer and a pastor who doesn’t.” — The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn’t Exist

 by Craig Groesche