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Thứ Ba, 12 tháng 8, 2008

In the time of Nick

If you still believe that Santa Claus will be sliding down your chimney on Christmas Eve, skip Jeremy Seal's historical travelogue Santa: A Life. Not that Seal is a killjoy. After all, for a start the British writer indulgently ferries his wonderstruck daughters to Santa's Kingdom, a vast, tawdry grotto in Birmingham, England, and then, a year later, all the way to Lapland. In between, though, Seal comes to admire Santa's prototype, as he tracks the shape-shifting Byzantine bishop St. Nicholas across 17 centuries of Christendom. Born in Christian Myra (now Demre) in southern Turkey in 280 A.D., Nick was sainted for anonymous gift giving to needy folk, and nominated a guardian of seafarers.

After his bones were removed by Italian raiders to the port of Bari in 1087, prisoners, prostitutes, pawnbrokers and others flocked to his patronage. Soon, every Christian city wanted a piece of him, and relic hunters provided fingers, hair and teeth upon which to build churches. Reaching Amsterdam around 1300, he eventually became a supplier of goodies to kids, as shown in the 1907 postcard at left. And it was Dutch pilgrims who took him to America, where, in 19th century New York City, frothy writers and advertisers turned the austere bishop into the fat, jolly, pipe-smoking Santa Claus. Believe in him or not, Santa has more than earned his place in Yuletide history.

Thứ Ba, 5 tháng 8, 2008

♥ [I love] ♥
♪I love everything of you...
Maybe you are not handsome... ☺

♫Maybe you are not rich...
Maybe you are not smart... ◘
♪Maybe you are always shy...


♥ [But I love you] ♥
↔Because you can make me smile when i sad ↔
→You can make me tell with you everything but I can't tell to nobody.→
• You can make me happy everyday •

♥ [I love you so much] ♥

Thứ Hai, 4 tháng 8, 2008

My life list

  1. Two books I'd like to read :::
    • Dracula because it talks about vampires.
    • P/s I love you because it's very romantic.
  2. Two movies I'd like to see :::
    • My lucky star because it has handsome actors and beautiful actress.
    • Heaven wedding grown because it has handsome actors.
  3. Two people I'd like to meet (alive) :::
    • Leon Jay Williams because he is very handsome.
    • Lee Young Ae because she is very beautiful.
  4. Two people I'd like to meet (died) :::
    • My mother's father because I have never seen him.
    • My father's father because i have never seen him.
  5. Two instrument I'd like to learn how to play :::
    • Piano because it is very interesting.
    • Guitar because it is very interesting.
  6. Two sport I'd like to learn how to play :::
    • Basket ball because it makes you taller
    • Badminton because you can play with your friends.
  7. Two girls I'd like to marry :
  8. Two boys I'd like to marry :::
    • Danson Tang because he is very handsome.
    • Leon Jay Williams because he is very handsome.