It went by on Thursday 19th with no comment on here, which I thought surprising.
Even at work our call centre didn't celebrate it.
Odd, considering they usually seize any opportunity to dress up and bring food and go around hugging each other and declare eternal friendship and cameraderie.
Management call it Team Building.
Plenty was/is happening in and around Sydney. The Opera house sails will be lit up red for the rest of the month and there'll be concerts, shows, food, films.
It's the year of the sheep, or goat, which struck me funny, considering how many ppl have been called "sheep" and "goats" on this forum at one stage or another.
So who here was actually born in the year of the Sheep/Goat?
"In Chinese Astrology, Goats are described as loving-peace and "kind" and "popular". With the addition of the wood element the Goat characteristic is thought to love peace and to be helpful and trusting, but yet also to be "clinging" and of a nature resistant to change."
I'm a Rabbit, or Cat in the Vietnamese calendar 
Personality: Strengths
People born under the sign of the rabbit are gentle, sensitive, compassionate, amiable, modest and merciful, and have strong memory. They like to communicate with others in a humorous manner. They cannot bear dull life, so they are good at creating romantic or interesting spice. They are soft-spoken and welcoming, being fond of peaceful love life. They hate arguing with capacity of converting an enemy into a friend. They are homebody and hospitable, and like house fitting-up. They can work with speed and efficiency, do not insist and get angry easily.
Personality: Weaknesses
They lack meditative abilities and often sink money into ideas that may cause failures in their career. They are amorous and not determined, soft in appearance and stubborn inside. They usually do not submit to dreary life, but create romance. They are not good at delving deeply and likely to escape the reality. They may lose good chances because of reserved characteristic traits.
What are you?
I'm aTiger.
Personality: Strengths
Tolerance, loyalty, valor, being respected are their nice characteristics. They like challenges and speed and they are active and good at expressing themselves. They have strong sense of errantry, be frank and easy to win others' trust. In their middle age, their fate may be uneven, but afterwards will enjoy a bright prospect. Most women under the tiger sign are intelligent, faithful and virtuous.
Personality: Weaknesses
Tigers usually tend to show off before others. They are given to deep thinking and capable of great sympathy, however, they can be short-tempered without interest with long-term endeavor. Sometimes, they come into conflict easily with the seniors and people in authority. Their hasty mind and decision may cause poor results. Weakness of characteristics such as over confident and traitorous may result in unsuccessful communication and cooperation with others.
My family say I'm very reserved on these boards though.
Not much went on here which was surprising given how far up the chinese backside our local govt is.
The traditional owners, the Gomeroi marched down to the chinese owned Shenhua office to share the new year with them but of course the office was shut. Oops.
http://www.nvi.com.au/story/2894243/photos-protesters-march-to-closed-office/?cs=373#slide=9
China is not very popular in this region atm.
Shenhua has been found to be rife with corruption (ohhh there's a surprise
) by it's own govt.
"Officials at China Shenhua Group, the country's top coal producer, have taken bribes and manipulated coal prices for personal benefit, China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said on its website."
The Shenhua Watermark project has been corrupt from the start and our govt is still in bed with them.
Shenhua was destroying it's own farmland in Mongolia, by taking more water than it was supposed to. Greenpeace got on their backs and they agreed to better manage their water usage . Water is Australias most precious commodity. We can't live without it. Putting a dirty great open cut mine above our aquifers and water tables is a risk we shouldn't take.
Our govt doesn't seem to care. Maybe now would be a good time to invest in desalinations plants.
anyway, what can ya do. 
I have a niece and nephew who have a chinese mum. They are the cutest little kids, and smart little cookies too.
yep, exactly Icy. That is part of what we want changed. No should mean No.
Shenhua's first EIS sucked. They got told to go back and do it again. They should have been told to bugger off.
Even if we get the federal environmental bloke to veto the mine the fight will still go on and on and on.
@imastawka wrote:I'm aTiger.
Personality: Strengths
Tolerance, loyalty, valor, being respected are their nice characteristics. They like challenges and speed and they are active and good at expressing themselves. They have strong sense of errantry, be frank and easy to win others' trust. In their middle age, their fate may be uneven, but afterwards will enjoy a bright prospect. Most women under the tiger sign are intelligent, faithful and virtuous.
Personality: Weaknesses
Tigers usually tend to show off before others. They are given to deep thinking and capable of great sympathy, however, they can be short-tempered without interest with long-term endeavor. Sometimes, they come into conflict easily with the seniors and people in authority. Their hasty mind and decision may cause poor results. Weakness of characteristics such as over confident and traitorous may result in unsuccessful communication and cooperation with others.
My family say I'm very reserved on these boards though.
For Stawks,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevxZvSJLk8
