Saturday, 31 July 2021

SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM ASIA

Afghanistan (Pushto)

Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha

Bahasa Malaysia

Selamat Hari Natal

China (Cantonese)

Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun

China (Mandarin)

Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan

Indonesia

Selamat Hari Natal

Japan

Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto

Korea

Sung Tan Chuk Ha

Rapa-Nui (Easter Island)

Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua


Sri Lanka (Singhalese)

Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa

Thailand

Sawadee Pee Mai

Vietnam

Chung Mung Giang Sinh

Thursday, 29 July 2021

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS ALL OVER AGAIN (2016)

All Eddie Kirkpatrick (Sean Ryan Fox) wants for Christmas is a pair of Breezy 3000s, the hottest new shoes which will make him the envy of his friends.

But come Christmas Day, he finds there are no presents under the family tree, let alone his shoes because his older brother, Zack (Colin Smith) is getting married and the family is so focused on the wedding they have sidelined Christmas.
He storms out of the house angry that his Christmas has been ruined, and heads into town where he comes across a mysterious new shoe store.

After meeting the store owner (Joey Lawrence) he is granted one wish, so Eddie wishes to have his Christmas back, and the wish is granted.

However as a result he is stuck reliving the same disappointing Christmas day on an endless loop, and is destined to do so until he learns what the spirit of Christmas is really about. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS STORIES – CHRISTMAS NOVELLA # 2 The Chimes: A Goblin Story

 

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, by Charles Dickens was published in 1844 and was the second in his series of "Christmas books":

The chimes are the old bells in the church on whose steps the principle character, Trotty Veck, plies his trade.

During the course of the story Trotty loses his faith in man's destiny to improve and as a result the bells call to him in the night and he feels compelled to climb the bell tower.

Once in the bell chamber the spirits of the bells and their goblin attendants reprimand him and tell him that he actually fell to his death on his climb up.

He is then forced to watch a series of visions of his daughter Meg and those closest to him and finds himself helpless to intervene.

The final vision was of his daughter Meg poised to jump into the river whereupon he cries out that he has learned his lesson and finds himself able to touch her and prevent her from jumping.

With the conclusion of that vision Trotty finds himself awakening at home as the bells ring in the New Year as if from a vivid dream.

The book concludes with the customary happy ending.

FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG # 30 - MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING

 

Merry Christmas Darling

Written By, Richard Lynn Carpenter / Frank Pooler

Performed by the Carpenters

 

Greeting cards have all been sent
The Christmas rush is through
But I still have one wish to make
A special one for you

Merry Christmas darling
We're apart that's true
But I can dream and in my dreams
I'm Christmas-ing with you

Holidays are joyful
There's always something new
But every day's a holiday
When I'm near to you
The lights on my tree
I wish you could see
I wish it every day

Logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say
That I wish you Merry Christmas
Happy New Year, too
I've just one wish
On this Christmas Eve
I wish I were with you

Logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say
That I wish you Merry Christmas
Happy New Year, too
I've just one wish
On this Christmas Eve
I wish I were with you
I wish I were with you

(Merry, merry, merry Christmas
Merry Christmas - darling)

SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM ANCIENT LANDS

Latin

Natale hilare et Annum Faustum

Low Saxon

Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar

Occitan (medieval Southern France)

Pulit nadal e bona annado


Persia (Farsi)

Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad

Rhetian (Of the Rhetian Alps now Tyrol)

Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A MONSTER CHRISTMAS (2012)

 

The Abominable Snowman (Ray Liotta), repeatedly warned his two Abominable Snow kids, Abby and Matt (Ariel Winter and Drake Bell) about the dangers of being seen by humans, however they don’t listen and find themselves in a sleepy Colorado mountain town after being chased out of their hideaway by a crazy scientist determined to capture them.

This delightful Christmas animation also benefits from the vocal talents of Emilio Estevez, Isabella Acres, Jane Lynch, Matthew Lillard and Nolan Gould.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS STORIES – CHRISTMAS NOVELLA # 1 A Christmas Carol

 

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol was the first of the Christmas novellas by Charles Dickens, first published on 19 December 1843.

It’s the oft told story of the sour and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge's route to redemption through the supernatural visits from Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas’s Past, Present, and Yet to Come.