Happy New Ox!

Each year the tradition is the same: every time the western world changes the year's number, the eastern world changes the year's animal. It's like a yin-yang relation between both worlds.

I love the eastern culture, their people, their natural landscapes... and of course, the food! But today I'm not here to talk about food (really? Am I sick? eheh) but to wish you another happy new year. In this case, a happy new chinese year, the year of the Ox.

That's a unique animal name because I believe it's the only one with two letters (in english, of course).
So what does this mean? Are we going to have a short year? It can't be, because accordingly to the Mayan calendar the end of the world will be in 2012! eheheh
It could also mean short of money, now that the so-called "world crisis" became popular!
I know: maybe my tax bill will be shorter this year! I hope so, because I don't wish to get anything else short! :-P

Naaaa... I prefer to believe that this will be an unique year: short on problems and full of energy!
Like the chinese running man on the picture here! eheh

I have just to say... Ox you all! ;-)