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Article: New Year celebration an age-old tradition, BUSINESS TIMES
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- Business Times (Malaysia)
- Article date:
- December 28, 2001
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HELENA FERNZ
Business Times (Malaysia)
12-28-2001
THE year 2001 is about to end, and soon quite a few of us will be celebrating
the New Year in one way or another.
So is it not appropriate that we find out how New Year festivities and
practices actually came about?
Are you ready for this informative tour?
A site that provides several details on the origins of New Year
beliefs and customs etc is http://wilstar.com/holidays/newyear. htm.
This portal also obligingly gives the link to another page containing
the lyrics of Auld Lang Syne, which it says is actually an old Scotch tune
that "literally means `old long ago' or simply, the good old days". (You
will be able to hear the tune when you visit ...
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