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Losar is the name for 2012 Tibetan New Year. Tibet celebrates the New Year in a very traditional way. This day of the New Year is the most important day in Tibet. It is a 15 day long program and the first three days are the most important. As a part of the 2012 Tibetan New Year a beverage called changkol will be made. The second day is known as the King’s Losar. The Tibetan culture follows the lunar calendar and according they celebrate the New Year. The Tibetan New Year is also celebrated along with the Chinese New Year. Several other communities and culture celebrates the Tibetan New Year; the cultures are Yolmo, Sherpa and Bhutanese. 
There is an interesting story behind the New Year celebration in Tibet. History says that there was a woman who taught the calculation of time based on the movement of the moon. Since then the Tibetans depend on the lunar calendar. The woman was called Belma. With the introduction of time, the Tibetans started celebrating the New Year too. Earlier the celebration took place with flowering of the apricot tree. New Year was symbolized with cultivation, irrigation, refining iron from ore and building bridges. 

The 2012 Tibetan New Year is the time to say goodbye to the last year and welcome the New Year. The celebration for the New Year starts on the last day of the year and continues further. The New Year’s Eve and the day of the New Year are both very important in the Tibetan culture. It is the time to meet the elder members of the family. Special dishes are cooked. Tribute to Dalai Lama is paid during the New Year. 

A special noodle with different ingredients and dried cheese called guthuk is made during the New Year. The other special dishes made during the New Year in Tibet are: 

• Tibetan Potato Curry (Xiangzhai)
• Rice and Potato Stew (Droma)
• Sweet Saffron Rice (Dresi)
• Kapse Fritters
• Tibetan New Year’s Eve Soup with Dumplings (Guthuk)

In some cultures (mostly oriental and aboriginal) the day of your birthday is not a day to celebrate because you are becoming a year older. For us instead is a day to celebrate, to get gifts, be with friends, have a cake with candles which shows your new age and when you blow them  you make a wish hoping that it will come true. 

This year, I had an amazing one, thanks to people who love me and surrounds me, and having next to me the man of my life and my sister! <3

February 4th 2011, I turned 25 years, a quarter century, and this made me realize how this year I want to accomplish something big. I am ready to fly and shine and I have a feeling this is the right year for it! 

I hope my wish will come true ;)

With my beautiful sister <3

Friends!

Alek’s bday gift and roses! <3<3

Celebrating in style!

Every culture as their own calendar and after celebrating the 2012 for the solar calendar the celebrations haven’t ended and for the Chinese lunar calendar the New Year just arrived.

On Sunday we embarked our-self to Chinatown imagining the typical movie scene with the huge dragon, the red lanterns and the Chinese music… It was quite similar but with a lot of people and a Chinese Macy’s but with lots of Chinese on top dancing to their  music and obviously dressed in red. It was an experience and now I can cross something else on my bucket list.

The year of the dragon, is not a simple year, but is a very lucky year for the Chinese horoscope so everybody born on this date you are the lucky one: 1904 * 1916 * 1928 * 1940 * 1952 * 1964 * 1976 * 1988 * 2000

Dragon sign:

The key to the Dragon personality is that they are free spirits.  The Dragon is a beautiful creature, colorful and flamboyant. They are confident, fearless in the face of challenge, they are almost inevitably successful. Dragons usually make it to the top!!

Remember that too much enthusiasm can leave them tired and unfulfilled. Even though they are willing to aid when necessary, their pride can often impede them from accepting the same kind of help from others. Dragons’ generous personalities give them the ability to attract friends, but they can be rather solitary people at heart.

So Dragon this year make the best of this year and hope that even us other Chinese signs will be lucky!

Finally my sister has arrived and after years not leaving together now we are in the same room, sharing closet, girls tips and much more.

“A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite. ” -Elizabeth Fishel-

Finally I feel complete, and am so glad of having her here.