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I wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009
It's time to spend with our love ones.
Magic Christmas spirit.
Time to eat out traditional food and wait patiently to open our presents.
New Year Eve is time to go for party and wait for New Year to come.
Watch fireworks and hope it's will better next year.

Yesterday 5 November 2008 at 10pm our loved Rex past away.  He was 13 years old.

You wouldn't find another dog who craves for attention like he did. We hug him, paddle and he never walked away no matter how long we did. We knew that this moment will come one day as he was getting older each year but we didn't know that will happen so soon.

There was something wrong with him yesterday. He lied down and breathes so deeply. We seat down with him and paddle him for some time until he decides to walk away so we left him. Then we come back and stayed with him. Then just before him past away he stands up for last time and walked around us until he collapsed and passed away.

Now is so quiet without him, no more barking and chasing birds around back yard.

Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an international holiday celebrated on October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories, and watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century.

The carved pumpkin, lit by a candle inside, is one of Halloween's most prominent symbols in America, and is commonly called a jack-o'-lantern.

Halloween costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devils. Costumes are also based on themes other than traditional horror, such as those of characters from television shows, movies and other pop culture icons.

There are several games traditionally associated with Halloween parties. The most common[citation needed] is dunking or apple bobbing, in which apples float in a tub or a large basin of water; the participants must use their teeth to remove an apple from the basin. A variant of dunking involves kneeling on a chair, holding a fork between the teeth and trying to drop the fork into an apple. Another common game involves hanging up treacle or syrup-coated scones by strings; these must be eaten without using hands while they remain attached to the string, an activity which inevitably leads to a very sticky face. Some games traditionally played at Halloween are forms of divination. In Puicíní (pronounced "poocheeny"), a game played in Ireland, a blindfolded person is seated in front of a table on which several saucers are placed. The saucers are shuffled and the seated person then chooses one by touch. The contents of the saucer determine the person's life during the following year. A saucer containing earth means someone known to the player will die during the next year, a saucer containing water foretells emigration, a ring foretells marriage, a set of Rosary beads indicates that the person will take Holy Orders (becoming a nun or a priest). A coin means new wealth, a bean means poverty, and so on. In 19th century Ireland, young women placed slugs in saucers sprinkled with flour. A traditional Irish and Scottish form of divining one's future spouse is to carve an apple in one long strip, then toss the peel over one's shoulder. The peel is believed to land in the shape of the first letter of the future spouse's name. This custom has survived among Irish and Scottish immigrants in the rural United States. Unmarried women were frequently told that if they sat in a darkened room and gazed into a mirror on Halloween night, the face of their future husband would appear in the mirror. However, if they were destined to die before marriage, a skull would appear. The custom was widespread enough to be commemorated on greeting cards from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The mirror gaze was one of many forms of love divination around Halloween and other ancient holy days.

The telling of ghost stories and viewing of horror films are common fixtures of Halloween parties. Episodes of TV series and specials with Halloween themes (with the specials usually aimed at children) are commonly aired on or before the holiday while new horror films, like the popular Saw films, are often released theatrically before the holiday to take advantage of the atmosphere.

You can check some Halloween photos in my gallery

I am creative and open to new ideas.
Good sense of humour keeps me alive

Photography is my everlasting passion for life
You will find a bit of everything depends on where I was.
I love discovering and memorising special moments and places that can last a lifetime.

I had couple of months break.
I guess all of us need some time off to do certain things.
I am so ready to visit your sites and catch up.