Saturday, February 17th, 2007

The Chinese New Year Celebration

I thought newspapers here will be full of Chinese New Year world coverage, but after some quick browsing of the leading local websites it’s embarrassing to admit the fact that I’ve found absolutely nothing - the world’s biggest holiday goes unnoticed in this part of the world.
But still, the Chinese embassy held an official get-together yesterday at the embassador’s residence. I wasn’t there, but Banma was kind enough to report :

We just got back from the reception at the embassador’s house in Hertzelia for the upcoming Chinese new years and the embassador gave his annual speech, especially referring to the Chinese students in the Israeli universities that are making China proud and will be bringing valuable knowledge back to China. …

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

Any plans for the Chinese new year?

Where will you be spending your Chinese new year? Hopefully, you get a chance to actually have Chinese new years in China/Taiwan.
 
Me? Being still very far away from Asia, I found out I have 3 options, which all sound great:

The Chinese loving Israelis from the "China culture and language" are meeting up. Details here.
The Chinese embassy is holding a formal Chinese new year celebration at the Chinese embassy.
The Tiawanese are having a get-together on Chinese new year for the Taiwanese staying in Israel.

Donno, a tough one. I will probably head to meet the other Israelis, and maybe drop by either the Taiwan/China office/embassy on the way there. …