Late Chinese New Year

Considering it's getting close to the point of no return for tonight, and the prospect of sleep looms,I shan't write too much tonight.

This may be interesting to some, though...and it would explain my pic choice. (Chinatown, London, England on Jan. 29th btw.)

Happy (belated) Chinese New Year to everyone! It's the year of the dog. The Chinese lunar New year fell on January 29th this year. Although theChinese celebrate the New Year on January 1st with the rest of the world,they also celebrate their unique animal zodiac during the Chinese lunar NewYear. The use of animal symbols is said to have been adopted in Japan in 604, during the reign of Empress Suiko. Unlike the Western Zodiac, which is divided into 12 months, the Asian Zodiac is divided into 12 years. Each year is named after an animal: the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and boar. They are called "eto" in Japanese.The year 2006 (Heisei 18-nen) is the year of the dog (inu-doshi). If you were/are born this year (or in 1994, '82, '70, '58, '46 and so on, every 12 years), you are a dog in the zodiac.

Here's a cool website to get some more info on all this v. cool stuff: http://chinese.astrology.com/dog.html
Have a wonderful new year!