Happy 2007!!!!!!

[dramasnot6]

Happy New Year everyone! Over here it will be 2007 in only 4 hours! For most of you i know it is a bit more time, but still approaching fast! Take this thread to post your New Year party plans, resolutions, or anything else to welcome in 2007. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[Stanislaw]

new years...hmm, I'm going to be at work...I work 23:30 to 8:00 GMT -7 so...I guess I'll be online...kinda lame. :D

but, I hope its a good year for everyone!

[dramasnot6]

Aww thats too bad Stanislaw! Maybe you can sneak some champagne into work :p

[IamMissingaLink]

I really want to do something tonight for new years but have no-one to do anything with :flare:
This year i will resolve to get my license, pass the 2nd year of my course with flying colours (gotta aim high, right?), and to get and stick at a part time job. I dunno what else yet.

Do u have any plans to celebrate the passing of yet another year, Dramasnot? Are u really 14 btw?

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Take this thread to post your New Year party plans, resolutions, or anything else to welcome in 2007. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Still 11 hours left as I write this...

Party plans: Limited to a nice quite evening with the missus and our daughter. Good food, some wine for me and wifey, and some bubbly stuff for midnight.

Resolusions: I hereby declare that I will make no new year resolutions (I never do).

/Claes

[dramasnot6]

Sound like a nice plan Claes, how old is your daughter?:)

[Stanislaw]

Aww thats too bad Stanislaw! Maybe you can sneak some champagne into work :p

:D :lol: That'd be the day...I'm just going to be content with watching firefly on my protable dvd...don't want to push the boss to far.:D

[toni]

:banana::banana: Happy New Year to Everyone! :D:D :banana::banana:

[Laindessiel]

MAY EVERYONE HAVE A BLAST THIS YEAR! LET'S CELEBRATE IT WITH MUCH NOISE!!!

IT'S JUST IT'S JUST AN HOUR AND 40 MINS. LEFT HERE 'TIL 2007!!!

:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::b anana::banana:

[dramasnot6]

20 minutes to go over here.....im the only one awake still :p

[Stanislaw]

cool! Happy new years all you early new years people...we still have 14.5 hours to go here.

[Pendragon]

New Year Sonnet

Another circle round the old Milky Way,
Doesn’t time seem to go by so fast now?
Seems like it was June only yesterday—
A whole New Year is upon us now…
We’ll keeping making mistakes in our checkbooks
Putting down ’06 when it comes to the year.
By February we start thinking just how young we looked—
When we went on holiday. (God, was that Last Year?)
But we’ve met new friends that we have grown to love,
Formed stronger bonds with others we already knew.
Shared our hopes, visions, dreams, and a few arguments,
But what we really needed was friends like you.
So to all of you on the LitNet from the bottom of the Dragon’s heart:
Here’s to a Happy New Year and a brand new start…

Pendragon

http://smilies.vidahost.com/games/dbz/dragonball-wishdragon.gifhttp://www.ewebtribe.com/NewYear/party/nycomp4.gif

[dramasnot6]

That was very beautiful Pendragon, i am actually crying now :) Wishing you the most wonderful of years filled with good books, good food, good laughs, and good friends!

[dramasnot6]

gah 15 minutes to go... what a lovely way to spend it on LitNet :D

[Madhuri]

Its still 3 hrs 45 mins to go in India. I cant believe 2006 went so fast.

Happy New Year!!

[Laindessiel]

Beautiful, Uncle Pen. A poem fit for a happy ending to a wonderful year! Yeah, I'm getting emotional now. :p

I hope everyone will still be here in 2007!

[dramasnot6]

In 5 of the last ten minutes of my year i read one of my favorites, "If", by Rudyard Kipling. I just wanted to post it, thought it would be a very appropriate New Year poem

[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!


--Rudyard Kipling

[Madhuri]

I like this poem a lot, Mira. :)

[dramasnot6]

Me too Madhuri :D

[dramasnot6]

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1....

[Laindessiel]

Wow! Very appropriate Drame. I would've quoted each and every single line...:)

Hope you have a blast too Drame! Love ya!!!

[dramasnot6]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

[Laindessiel]

Wow! Still an hour to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dramasnot6]

:) love ya too Lain! Best wishes for everyone :D

[Madhuri]

Its New Year in Australia I guess...

Happy New Year, Mira....:banana:

[dramasnot6]

gah...its already 2007 here! and 2006 there! how freaky is that?? :eek: it just feels really weird when you get down to thinking about it....

[dramasnot6]

Thanks madhuri! :D Ahead of time, since i will be asleep when it's India's New Year, HAPPY NEW YEAR MADDIE! :) :banana:

[Madhuri]

Thanks!! I somehow dont want to get into new year, it feels different, as when you have to say goodbye to someone knowing that they will NEVER come back.....I am just hanging here. It was so fast.....

Oh, but, why worry...Lets celebrate....Cheers!! :banana:

[dramasnot6]

gah this alien got up before 5 this morning to jog and probably needs to snooz away the first hours of the New Year. To everyone who is still celebrating it for the next few hours, happy new year!

[tuncay_87]

Happy New Year everyone! Over here it will be 2007 in only 4 hours! For most of you i know it is a bit more time, but still approaching fast! Take this thread to post your New Year party plans, resolutions, or anything else to welcome in 2007. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

I hope 2007 will be good year for everyone !!!

Happy New Years!!!!!

[ktd222]

Happy New Year!

My resolution this year is to start smoking

[ClaesGefvenberg]

I cant believe 2006 went so fast.Believe it... and it will get worse: At my age (47 now) a year is but a measly 2.1% of my entire life so far :lol:


Sound like a nice plan Claes, how old is your daughter?:)11 and counting... Oh dear, I will have a teenager in the house soon :eek:

/Claes

[Pensive]

Happy New Year! :)

Niya Saal Bohat Bohat Mubarak Ho! :)

[Madhuri]

Tumhe bhi naya saal mubarak ho, Pensy!!! ;)

Eid Mubarak bhi..:)

Claes -- I hope 2007 goes a little slow and let me experience that it indeed was a year that went by, and not some seconds like months...:D

:banana:

[toni]

5 minutes now!!!!!!!!!!!!

[toni]

till new year!!!!!!!


Stealing a post!!!!!!!!!!!11

[Madhuri]

YAY!! :banana:

Another place that is going into New year!! :D

Happy New Year!! :banana:

[Pensive]

Tumhe bhi naya saal mubarak ho, Pensy!!! ;)

Eid Mubarak bhi..:)

Claes -- I hope 2007 goes a little slow and let me experience that it indeed was a year that went by, and not some seconds like months...:D

:banana:

Shukariya, Madhuri Baji! :D :p

[Madhuri]

Yay!! I am a Baji now..:banana:

Another 2 hrs 30 mins to go for New Year...:D

[toni]

Hapy New Year! 15 minutes past 12 now......lol:D

[EAP]

Happy New Year, folks. :)

[Poetess]

Habby nyo yeer :d



HAPPY NEW YEAAAAAAAAAR!!!! *turns on a firework*

Kol `am wa antom b khayr (Original Arabic)

kel `am w ento bkher (in the Lebanese accent :D )

[Poetess]

Happy New Year!

My resolution this year is to start smoking

ambitious!

[kilted exile]

I'll say this now - cos I dont intend to be in a fit state for using the computer later - Happy Ne'er day, Lang may yer lum reek, & may your first foot be black haired.

[Poetess]

I'll say this now - cos I dont intend to be in a fit state for using the computer later - Happy Ne'er day, Lang may yer lum reek, & may your first foot be black haired.

*wonders what that was!*

Thank you kiltiee!

[tuncay_87]

Turkish<---->Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun

Afgani<---->Saale Nao Mubbarak
Afrikaans<---->Gelukkige nuwe jaar
Albanian<---->Gezuar Vitin e Ri
Armenian<---->Snorhavor Nor Tari
Arabic<---->Antum salimoun
Assyrian<---->Sheta Brikhta
Azeri<---->Yeni Iliniz Mubarek!
Bengali<---->Shuvo Nabo Barsho
Bulgarian<---->×åñòèòà Íîâà Ãîäèíà<---->(pronounced "Chestita Nova Godina")
Cambodian<---->Soursdey Chhnam Tmei
Catalan<---->FELIÇ ANY NOU
Chinese<---->Xin Nian Kuai Le
Corsican Language<---->Pace e Salute
Croatian<---->Sretna Nova godina!
Cymraeg (Welsh)<---->Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
Czechoslovakia<---->Scastny Novy Rok
Denish<---->Godt Nytår
Dhivehi <---->Ufaaveri Aa Aharakah Edhen
Dutch<---->GELUKKIG NIEUWJAAR!
Eskimo<---->Kiortame pivdluaritlo
Esperanto<---->Felican Novan Jaron
Estonians<---->Head uut aastat!
Ethiopian<---->MELKAM ADDIS AMET YIHUNELIWO!
Finnish<---->Onnellista Uutta Vuotta
French<---->Bonne Annee
Gaelic<---->Bliadhna mhath ur
Galician [NorthWestern Spain]<---->Bo Nadal <---->e Feliz Aninovo
German<---->Prosit Neujahr
Greek<---->Kenourios Chronos
Gujarati<---->Nutan Varshbhinandan
Hawaiian<---->Hauoli Makahiki Hou
Hebrew<---->L'Shannah Tovah
Hindi<---->Naye Varsha Ki Shubhkamanyen
Hong kong(Cantonese)<---->Sun Leen Fai Lok
Hungarian<---->Boldog Ooy Ayvet
Indonesian<---->Selamat Tahun Baru
Iranian<---->Saleh now mobarak
Iraqi<---->Sanah Jadidah
Irish<---->Bliain nua fe mhaise dhuit
Italian<---->Felice anno nuovo
Japan<---->Akima****e Omedetto Gozaimasu
Kabyle<---->Asegwas Amegaz
Kannada<---->Hosa Varushadha Shubhashayagalu
Kisii<---->SOMWAKA OMOYIA OMUYA
Khmer<---->Sua Sdei tfnam tmei
Korea<---->Saehae Bock Mani ba deu sei yo!
Kurdish<---->NEWROZ PIROZBE
Lithuanian<---->Laimingu Naujuju Metu
Laotian<---->Sabai dee pee mai
Macedonian<---->Srekjna Nova Godina
Malay<---->Selamat Tahun Baru
Marathi<---->Nveen Varshachy Shubhechcha
Malayalam <---->Puthuvatsara Aashamsakal
Maltese<----> Is-Sena t- Tajba
Nepal<---->Nawa Barsha ko Shuvakamana
Norwegian<---->Godt Nyttår
Papua New Guinea<---->Nupela yia i go long yu
Pampango (Philippines)<---->Masaganang Bayung Banua
Pashto<---->Nawai Kall Mo Mubarak Shah
persian<---->Saleh now ra tabrik migouyam
Philippines<---->Manigong Bagong Taon
Polish<---->Szczesliwego Nowego Roku
Portuguese<---->Feliz Ano Novo
Punjabi<---->Nave sal di mubarak
Romanian<---->AN NOU FERICIT
Russian S <---->Novim Godom
Samoa<---->Manuia le Tausaga Fou
Serbo-Croatian<---->Sretna nova godina
Sindhi<---->Nayou Saal Mubbarak Hoje
Singhalese<---->Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
siraiki<---->Nawan Saal Shala Mubarak Theevay
Slovak<---->A stastlivy Novy Rok
slovenian<---->sreèno novo leto
Somali<---->Iyo Sanad Cusub Oo Fiican!
Spanish<---->Feliz Ano ~Nuevo
Swahili<---->Heri Za Mwaka Mpyaº
Swedish<---->GOTT NYTT ÅR! /Gott nytt år!
Sudanese<---->Warsa Enggal
Tamil<---->Eniya Puthandu Nalvazhthukkal
Telegu<---->Noothana samvatsara shubhakankshalu
Thai<---->Sawadee Pee Mai
Ukrainian<---->Shchastlyvoho Novoho Roku
Urdu<---->Naya Saal Mubbarak Ho
Uzbek<---->Yangi Yil Bilan
Vietnamese<---->Chuc Mung Tan Nien
Welsh<---->Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

[Mad Organist]

Cordial new year felicitations to one and all.

[Poetess]

I like the Persian language :D
Lately i`ve decided to study it, just when I feel free or finish my official exams.

persian<---->Saleh now ra tabrik migouyam

Yen`ad Alaykom (also in Arabic)

[ClaesGefvenberg]

I'll say this now - cos I dont intend to be in a fit state for using the computer later:thumbs_up Having a right old new years bash are we? :lol: :lol: :lol: Good on ya mate

/Claes

[Madhuri]

I see a lot of Indian languages also...:)

[Virgil]

I think I did this last year too. I wish to post the words to Beethoven's fifth movement (the Ode To Joy movement) in his nineth symphony. The fifth movement ties together the Catholic tradition of church music and the Protestant tradition of church music, which of course had split apart. It comes after four movements of angst and turmoil. In its time it represented the peace between the two after a couple of centuries of brutal religious war and stife. The nineth symphony has now come to represent a desire for world peace and for the univerality of mankind. I think here at lit net we of so many diverse backgrounds can be an example for the world that now is again in strife. I didn't post the entire thing, but you can look them up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)

German original
O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!
Sondern lasst uns angenehmere
anstimmen und freudenvollere.
Freude! Freude!
Freude, schöner Götterfunken
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!
Deine Zauber binden wieder
Was die Mode streng geteilt;
Alle Menschen werden Brüder,

English translation
Oh friends, not these tones!
Rather let us sing more
cheerful and more joyful ones.
Joy! Joy!
Joy, thou glorious spark of heaven,
Daughter of Elysium,
We approach fire-drunk,
Heavenly One, your shrine.
Your magic reunites
What custom sternly divides;
All people become brothers


HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MAY THE WORLD FIND PEACE

[Poetess]

<3 Virgil...

[white camellia]

新 年 快 乐
xin1 nian2 kuai4 le4

[white camellia]

新 年 快 乐
xin1 nian2 kuai4 le4

Happy New Year

[Poetess]

^^ what are 1 2 4 4? do you use them as Letters? or only for pronounciations?

[kilted exile]

*wonders what that was!*

Thank you kiltiee!

The black haired bit refers to the scottish custom of first-footing. This is going to visit the homes of friends/family just after the "bells", it is good luck if the first visitor to step into your home in the new year has black hair, as opposed to blond/fair hair as in the past they were more likely to be a bunch of vikings come to raid, rape & pillage.

[white camellia]

The world is, maybe in some way, to seek balance itself. But we'd better do our part!

[Madhuri]

Only 6 mins to go......:banana:

Now -- only two mins -- I can hear people bursting firecrackers...I guess its New Year now..

Happy New year everyone!!! :banana:

[white camellia]

^^ what are 1 2 4 4? do you use them as Letters? or only for pronounciations?

Those numbers mark the four standard mandarin tones, Poetess. :)

[Poetess]

Okay, thank you Camellia and Kilted.

[Petrarch's Love]

The black haired bit refers to the scottish custom of first-footing. This is going to visit the homes of friends/family just after the "bells", it is good luck if the first visitor to step into your home in the new year has black hair, as opposed to blond/fair hair as in the past they were more likely to be a bunch of vikings come to raid, rape & pillage.

Does this mean you wouldn't welcome an eight foot tall giant blonde who owns a tiny bookcase into your house on New Years? :p


I think I did this last year too. I wish to post the words to Beethoven's fifth movement (the Ode To Joy movement) in his nineth symphony.

Thanks for posting that Virg. You inspired me to download my cd of the 9th onto the new ipod I got for Christmas, and I'm rocking out to Beethoven right now. :D I can't resist unleashing my pedantic side for a moment though. The symphony only has four movements, not five. I wish you were right though, since it would be great if there were more of it. :) Incidently, if you're a fan of the piece, you might be interested in this video lecture I found recently on the Harvard@Home alum site. The site has films of Harvard Profs lecturing on different subjects, sort of a virtual classroom, and this one has about ten video shorts (roughly three hours altogether) specifically on Beethoven's 9th. I haven't gotten a chance to watch it all, but it looks interesting. http://athome.harvard.edu/dh/Kelly.html

Still 2006 for another twelve hours and fifteen minutes here, but Happy New Year to those who are already living in next year. :)

[Virgil]

Thanks for posting that Virg. You inspired me to download my cd of the 9th onto the new ipod I got for Christmas, and I'm rocking out to Beethoven right now. :D
I've had my iPod now for a few months and I absolutely love it. I haven't gotten to downlaoding my classical and jazz yet. Just about coompleted rock and blues collection.


I can't resist unleashing my pedantic side for a moment though. The symphony only has four movements, not five. I wish you were right though, since it would be great if there were more of it. :)
I guess technically you're right. But the Ode to Joy seems like such a break within the fourth movement, I always think of it as a fifth movement. Plus my CD divides it in five channels, one for each movement and one for the Ode To Joy. But you are correct; there are only four movements.


Incidently, if you're a fan of the piece, you might be interested in this video lecture I found recently on the Harvard@Home alum site. The site has films of Harvard Profs lecturing on different subjects, sort of a virtual classroom, and this one has about ten video shorts (roughly three hours altogether) specifically on Beethoven's 9th. I haven't gotten a chance to watch it all, but it looks interesting. http://athome.harvard.edu/dh/Kelly.html
Thanks. Happy New Year.

[Taliesin]

The black haired bit refers to the scottish custom of first-footing. This is going to visit the homes of friends/family just after the "bells", it is good luck if the first visitor to step into your home in the new year has black hair, as opposed to blond/fair hair as in the past they were more likely to be a bunch of vikings come to raid, rape & pillage.

Yay!
*goes raiding, raping and pillaging*


EDIT: Damn, the door got stuck.

[Logos]

Happy New Year

to Everybody!

:banana: :banana: :banana:

I hope it will be

Your best year yet!

:nod:

:D

:wave:

:lol:

:angel:

:blush:

:goof:

[dramasnot6]

Awwww thanks logos! :D

[Taliesin]

Head Uut Aastat!

Fröliche Neue Jahr!

Bonne Annee!

Happy New Year!

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Well into 2007 (51 minutes to be exact) I'm still reasonably coherent. Thus, I suppose the bubbly stuff was rather weak. I'm sure I'll be grateful for that in the morning... ;)

Happy New Year, all.

/Claes

[Jay]

Happy New Year everybody!

[Whifflingpin]

Happy New Year to all

[Shalot]

yeah...happy new year everybody. I hope it's wonderful.

[zanna]

Happy New Year to all. There were definitely good days and bad days, but I've enjoyed this past month with y'all. :) Take care, everyone, we'll see you next year. :)

[kilted exile]

Does this mean you wouldn't welcome an eight foot tall giant blonde who owns a tiny bookcase into your house on New Years? :p


Course not, tall blonde women are always welcome ;)

[Scheherazade]

http://www.snoopy.com/comics/peanuts/archive/images/peanuts27330430070101.gif

[dramasnot6]

http://www.snoopy.com/comics/peanuts/archive/images/peanuts27330430070101.gif

:lol: ahahaha nice one Scher

[mir]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!

this is pretty interesting - i bet everybody's getting the New Year at different times! :D well, as of 18 and a half hours ago, have a great 2007!!!!!!!!!!!

[kathycf]

Happy New Year! I hope 2007 sees you all healthy and happy.

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[AimusSage]

Happy New Year everyone!!!!






I'm not late, I'm very, very early...

[Madhuri]

Happy New Year to you as well. :D I dont think you are late, I have heard this some where that entire January one can wish New Year, so you are quite early. :)

[Laindessiel]

Pampango (Philippines)<---->Masaganang Bayung Banua
Philippines<---->Manigong Bagong Taon


Greetings for each one there, Tuncay! I wonder, since you mentioned Pampangeno, are you Filipino?



I'm not late, I'm very, very early...

That's the latest you can be, Aims.:p
Hope you had a blast!