Today has been earmarked as the International Standard for Celebrating Love, namely St. Valentine’s Day. It’s a time where most couples or singles rejoice over their love surrounded by expenses. Yes, mostly its about money. And not with love, you can just drink water and be fulfilled. You need roses, chocolates, cuddly looking bears and maybe, diamonds.

But what do I really know? I’ll just impart with the following quotes:

Some pray to marry the man they love,
My prayer will somewhat vary,
I humbly pray to Heaven above,
That I love the man I marry,
-Rose Pastor Stokes, My Prayer.

Men begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman, Women begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
-Remy De Gourmont

The year now is 4702. Soon, we will enter year 4703 which is the Year of the Wood Rooster. The Rooster Zodiac is considered as the most lucky and auspicious animal sign this Spring Festival and the Rooster has the same pronounciation as ‘luck’ in the Chinese language. Are you feeling lucky yet?

Interestingly, the first day of the Rooster Year is February 4th, 2005 in the Fortune-Telling Calendar system, because February 4th, 2005 is the first day of Tiger month. The Tiger month is the first month of a year in Chinese Fortune-Telling Calendar system. The “Start of Spring” occurs in  the first day of the Tiger month, which is when the sun enters the 315th degree on the tropical zodiac. In the China time zone, the time of Start of Spring is at 02-04 01:42. So the first day of the Green Chicken year 2005 is on 04-Feb-05. But Chinese New Year day will occur on 9th February 2005 because is a new moon day and first day of the first month in Lunar Calendar.

But then again, it is also said that it is a Green Female Chicken year because there are no male chicken year in Chinese Calendar. I am not so sure but look here for more explanation.

It seems there is much more to know about the arrival of Chinese New Year then we can see but whatever it is, it’s a great festival to celebrate for all the Chinese that made up one-fifth of the Earth population.

For that, I wish you all Chinese out there, “Gong Xi Fa Cai”, “Nian Nian You Yue” , “Long Ma Ching Shen” and “Hi Hi Ha Ha” !!!

Source of info:  http://english.sina.com/china/1/2005/0202/20321.html
                           http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2005.htm

In the view of the coming of the Wood Metal Rooster Year, the Known World has made a brave attempt to contact the glorious Weigang Kittang Confederationg in a mission to establish possible liaison and long lasting connection. It is unfortunate that the initial solemn contact had failed due to no knowledge that the Weigang had on the Known World.

However, despite the disasterous failure, the Known World will attempt to reestablish contact with an assortment of various interesting facts and figures. It is hope that the Weigang will consider and welcome the Known World with open hands. It will be a prolong process of intricate and careful deliberation before any positve results could be obtained but it will be a most joyous achievement for the Known World should the contact is successful.

And now, back to the war front.

The German Champion had fell early on in the round, but has returned as a nuclear powered Italian nation. After a long effort in a fight to restore power to the Axis, the Italian nation was yet nuked out again. Although just managing to dispose of an Allied American nuclear nation, the fallen Axis has again return for the third time as a Italian to swing the war in the Axis favour despite the unfavourable conditions. It will take time, in the end he might fall again but the motto of “Never surrender, Never give up” echoded by his one of his allies will spur him on. Alongside, hardcore fighting Axis mates, the war is far from over but the rampaging Allied nukes will make it hard to overcome the envitable. But the round has not end yet..