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Holiday |
Meaning |
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New Year Eve |
1st Jan 2005
It is a time for celebrating the coming new year and time to reflect on the year past. |
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Chinese New Year |
9th-10th January 2005
This festival represent good fortune. To single people, good fortune may mean love and romance. Good fortune may mean good grades to students, children for families, jobs for the unemployed and health for the sick. |
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Valentine's Day |
14th February 2005
This holiday is for love, candy and sweet notes of devotion. |
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St. Patrick's Day |
17th March 2005
It is an Irish celebration celebrating the birthday of Patrick, a priest to Ireland. It has in modern times it has become a day to celebrate being Irish. |
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Easter Day |
11th April 2005
Easter is an ancient holiday of springtime renewal. In the second century early Christians adopted this time as a holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus. |
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Earth Day |
22nd April 2005
It is a day to learn about preserving our environment. |
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Labour Day |
1st May 2005
It celebrates and acknowledges the common worker and their contribution to the prosperity. |
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Mother's Day |
8th May 2005
It is a time to honor and commemorate Mom and motherhood. |
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Father's Day |
19th June 2005
It is to honor and commemorate Dad and fatherhood. |
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Boss's Day |
16th October 2005
It is an official day for people to honor their bosses. |
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Sweetest Day |
16th October 2005
Sweetest Day is the occassion to your heart out to the one you care for and make your beloved feel special. |
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Halloween |
31st October 2005
It is a very old holiday going back to ancient times when people celebrated the bringing in of the last harvest before winter set in. Modern celebrations include traditions from the early church holiday of All Hallows Eve or All Saints Day to honor the dead. |
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Deepavali |
1st November 2005
This festival is to light oil lamps in their homes on Deepavali morning. By lighting the oil lamps, the Hindus are thanking the gods for the happiness, knowledge, peace and wealth that they have received. |
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Hari Raya Puasa |
3rd-4th November 2005
This festival is a good time for family gatherings in purpose of sharing good things, forgetting bad pasts, reconciling with someone, and above all, other ethnic friends are welcome for renewing one's sense for other communities. |
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Thanks Giving |
25th November 2005
It is a day intended to celebrate the Pilgrims survival and the help they received from the Indians, who taught them how to survive in the new world. |
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Merry Christmas |
25th December 2005
It is an ancient festival celebrating the Winter solstice and the coming again of the sun, Yule time. The early Church proclaimed it as the day to celebrate the birth of Jesus. In modern days it has also become a time of family gatherings and festivities. |
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