A Happy New Year!
明けましておめでとうございます。本年も、どうぞよろしくお願い申し上げます。
How is your new year day? In Japan, we say "The whole year's plans are made on New Year's Day". This means I should be good girl? and do well if I want to make my 2005 good year. On New year day, we enjoy New Year meals Osechi Ryori. (Here is recipe) and Sake Nihonshu. Yes I had them enough too! Now I will make my plan for 2005 by myself. I write down things what I want to achieve every New Year day.
Do you have some big plan for this year? I wish this 2005 can be a good year for you.
マリさんへあかましておめでとうございます。今年もよろしくお願いします。
Posted by: Claire （クレア） | Sunday, January 02, 2005 at 08:28 AM
in seattle we celebrate new years day with a massive hangover...misogi does not exist at the bottom of my absolut bottle as i had imagined..one more theory shot to hell. yes, I think the "whole years plans" thing gets communicated cross culturally..just as the "dont sweep the good luck out the door"..which is my personal favorite. I basically take it to mean I can sit around the house in my undies and watch cobwebs form, or the rose bowl parade (whichever comes first)..until tomorrow at least. 2005...did 2004 fly by or what? So much happened in so little time, it was a blink and a headache all at once. Best of everything to everyone in 2005 we deserve it! now what did I do with my pants?..ooooh tequila!
Posted by: robert | Sunday, January 02, 2005 at 07:09 AM
Happy New Year!
In California, we usually are at or watching on T.V. the Rose Parade & Rose Bowl on New Year's Day.
Hope you have a great year in 2005. ^_^
Posted by: nancyn | Sunday, January 02, 2005 at 03:16 AM