Or Chinese New Year, or Hanukkah or Ramadan or Vesak… This is the swan-song of many an expat who has to make the gut-wrenching decision each year of who to share their families most significant holiday with. As a child, Christmas was by far my favorite holiday. Sadly not for the religious significance, but for [...]
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What are you doing for Christmas this year?
Posted in Earth Holidays on October 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Trick or treat, trees and flags, presidents and mothers…
Posted in Earth Holidays on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In some countries, children beg for food and it’s called poverty. In other countries children ask strangers for food and it is called Halloween. In some countries, the people still worship deities that are half human and half man whilst other countries have national holidays for trees… and flags… The USA is in many ways, [...]
भारत में छुट्टियां मनाना
Posted in Earth Holidays on October 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Thaipusam and Deepavali were great precursors in Malaysia that prepared me for the festivities in India when I moved there. However nothing could have prepared me for the passion with which the Indian people celebrate. We left behind quite a few holidays in Malaysia but we traded them in for louder, brighter and what seemed [...]
How Malaysian’s embrace earth celebrations
Posted in Earth Holidays on October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My life’s progression often goes from one extreme to another and this was totally the case when it came to how my host country’s celebrated other culture’s holidays. I leapt from the primarily Christian holidays in New Zealand and Australia, to the culturally embracing celebrations of the Malaysian people in Kuala Lumpur. Living in KL [...]
Earth Holidays
Posted in Earth Holidays on October 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
If you want to find out just how similar, rather than how different we all are, just watch another culture celebrate one of their national holidays. The anticipation and joy that people experience when they share a national or cultural ritual or tradition has probably changed little in the thousands of years we have inhabited [...]
