KUNG HEI FAT CHOI

To give you a sign of life, I will post a small series about Chinese New Year in Binondo, Manila. You can see my last year's series about Chinese New Year here.

2007 is the year of the fire pig/boar. A year of goodwill to all. An excellent climate for business and industry in general will prevail. People will be more free and easy on the whole and the complaisant attitude of the Boar will generate a feeling of abundance. But in spite of the favorable auspices here, like the Boar we will hesitate, waver and undermine our own abilities when opportunity calls.

The Boar's year is one of plenty. La dolce vita is very much advocated and practiced by the sensual Boar. If life is worth living, it mist be lived to the hilt. Such is his motto. The Boar is as lavish with gifts as he is with affection. He takes pride in being chivalrous and extravagant. It would be ill-advised to overspend this year of make sizable investments without thorough investigation. We may also come to regret impulsive acts of generosity made on the spur of the moment.
(source: The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes by Theodora Lau)

While shooting in China Town I had the luck to bump into three famous Filipino bloggers and an equally famous streetwalker.

Anton from Our Awesome Planet
Ivan from Ivan About Town
Ivan from Old Manila Walks
Señor Enrique from Wish You Were Here

We had a great time eating all kinds of dumplings! I almost forgot to hit the street to take pictures of the lion and dragon dances.

Comments

[Emer]

Kiong hee huat tsai! You're back!

I wish you good health and prosperity, my friend!

[bw]

Good to hear you had a great time with the buddies and the food ! hAPPY New Year to you :)

[anton]

Nice Meeting you Sidney. On to Rodeo in Masbate!!

[LAR]

Kiong Hee Huat Chai Sidney! It's really nice to meet your blog friends! :)

[pieterbie]

Happy New Year, Sidney!
Good to see a sign of life.
This picture makes me cheerful somehow.

[Serge]

Have an oink oink year, Sidney! :-)

[Rach]

Kung Hei Fat Choy Sidney! Wishing you and your family best of health, success and happiness.

I'm fascinated with the festivities of the Chinese New Year and I'm very excited about your coming series. Thanks for sharing the link of your last year's Chinese New Year photos. I will check them out.

[Lizza]

Happy New Year, Sidney!

It's so good to see you posting again. Looking forward to your new series.

Kumain ka ba ng tikoy? ;-)

[sil]

Happy new year to you! It's nice to see you back.

[Sophie]

Happy new Year.....

[Ivan About Town]

Thanks for the dumplings Sidney! See you at the next festival. I'll let you know when my radar picks up one :)

[sexy mom]

happy chinese new year! i knew you would be back, instinct? that's why i visited your site!

[mariaela]

Kung Hei Fat Choi!!! Welcome back even if it's a short series. I will eager await for your pictures.

[tina]

Kung Hei Fat Choi!! :)

[Toe]

Happy Chinese New Year Sidney! Will await your series as usual. How interesting to meet three wonderful bloggers. :)

[cool daddio]

Ditto for Rock's remarks.
I am hoping to meet many of my favorite North American bloggers in April at the big Chicago meetup but I don't know if we'll be eating dumplings :)

[iskoo]

Happy Chinese Cew Year Sydney. I was hoping to go to Binon today for the celebration, hope I can find time...

[Ashish Sidapara]

Happy New Year my friend, glad you are back (for the moment!).

[Paul]

I was also happy to see a new entry from you! Happy New Year!

[Rock Kauser]

I was happy to see your post in my RSS feeder. Happy New Year! May you find peace, happiness and what you seek during the year of the Boar!