Happy New 2011 Year to everybody
I just wanted to wish a blessed, peaceful and prosperious year
2011!
Let with the coming of the new year our troubles decrease, our joys
increase and the blessings of God pour on all of us
Christians!
The last year was not that bad but still for me wasn't in the best
years I've experienced, I truly hope with the new 2011 year
everything will come to place.
This New Year was a bit different from the standard ones I had in
Bulgaria, since I'm Holland.
To make things even more interesting I've spend the new year in
Schiedam (a city municipality of Rotterdam).
The New Year eve, I've spend with Two Chineese girls (Grace and
Yen).
So for me it was like a Chineese Christmas.
We ate traditional Chineese food prepared with some Dutch
commodities.
After and throughout the breakfast we have listened to some classic
music and a few Bulgarian Christmas songs.
We drinked wine and wished each other a succesful new 2011.
What was nice was we ate the food with chineese sticks, so it was
quite a challenge for me to grab the food
but I should
say I'm getting more and more proficient in eating with Chineese
sticks.
After we completed the meal we had some music like revolutionary
communistic music
Katyiusha , some other Soviet typical
songs plus some old fashioned other Russian music from Soviet time
like for instance
Chiburashka
I've played them the bulgarian communistic soundtrack of the
Communistic movie, entitled "Nie sme na vseki kilometyr", "We are
at every kilometer".
This song is a absolute Bulgarian classics from a sequel about
partizans and the Red Revolution.
Though I myself did not have any communistic convictions, this kind
of stuff is a bit linked to our past in Bulgaria so the old songs
bringed some good memories about the past.
For the two Chineese girls it was also nice since China is still
under the rule of
Communistic Democacy
To make things even better I played them the Slavonic Orthodox
Church absolute classic
Mnogaq Leta which we usually use to
play or sing in Bulgaria on every New Year eve or on many other
occasions especially in major Church festivals.
It was really odd for me that both Chineese girls, cleared up the
table in about 10:30, and they went back to their rooms.
In Bulgaria we always stay together to Welcome the new year and
most of the time we try to eat continously until at least 00:30 in
the turned new year.
So from my personal cultural perspective, our New Year in Bulgria
is generally more joyful.
Here in Holland it appears they have the same culture of blowing up
a lot of rays and mini-bombs.
This was quite similar in Bulgaria but I never thought they blow
off so many fireworks and blasting stuff.
Actually I really hate this part of New Year celebration, because
of the dozens of blows all around the New Year looks like a mini
war always and even thought it might be funny for many youngsters I
still find it a profane way to celebrate.
But enough talk again I to my readers a Godspeed in the New Year
2011! Cheers!