{"id":209,"date":"2005-12-22T08:26:46","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T00:26:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-03T18:31:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T10:31:31","slug":"seasons-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/209\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasons greetings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image\"><a href=\"\/me\/node\/208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/me\/files\/images\/xmasholly2.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"156\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Seasons Greetings\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another 3 days to Christmas and another 10 days to the New Year. I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We are now approaching the final corner of the year and down to the start\/finish straight.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that for many of you 2005 was a great year. It certainly is for me, and many of the ingredients in 2005 would form a nice foundation for 2006: so I am looking forward to better things come end year and the new year 2006. And yeah, <a href=\"http:\/\/fifaworldcup.yahoo.com\/\">2006 will be World Cup year<\/a> &#8211; so more sleepless nights. As ever, I will be cheering out for Brazil. They are looking strong for retaining the cup. <a href=\"http:\/\/fifaworldcup.yahoo.com\/06\/en\/051219\/6\/5qhp.html\">And for the second year running, Brazilian Ronaldinho was recently named FIFA World Player of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to the seasons&#8217; greetings. Received a card from a celebrity friend today, but I am embarrassed that I do not have her address to reply. Anyway, did a bit of googling to look for any info that could give me her address, but instead found some amusing sites. I thought I should share these sites (not related to my friend, but has her name mentioned somewhere in them) anyway:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fwfr.com\/default.asp\">The four word film review<\/a> &#8211; an interesting concept in having users just give four words as a review of a film. I like films, and often read reviews&#8230; this one <em>should<\/em> save me time in deciding whether to watch a film or not. But I think the novelty will soon wear off.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melayu.com\/v2\/sembang2\/\">Melayu.com<\/a> &#8211; this site contains a fairly active forum &#8211; mainly in Bahasa Malaysia&#8230; and mainly topics of Malay interest. Will probably visit in the future to get a feel of the young Malay mind.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chuminskaya.blogspot.com\/\">yikes! chuminskaya.blog<\/a> &#8211; erm&#8230; a blog by a Malay dude, I think. The guy seems to travel a bit. Nice places.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay &#8211; see you later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image\"><a href=\"\/me\/node\/208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/me\/files\/images\/xmasholly2.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"156\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Seasons Greetings\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another 3 days to Christmas and another 10 days to the New Year. I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We are now approaching the final corner of the year and down to the start\/finish straight.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that for many of you 2005 was a great year. It certainly is for me, and many of the ingredients in 2005 would form a nice foundation for 2006: so I am looking forward to better things come end year and the new year 2006. And yeah, <a href=\"http:\/\/fifaworldcup.yahoo.com\/\">2006 will be World Cup year<\/a> &#8211; so more sleepless nights. As ever, I will be cheering out for Brazil. They are looking strong for retaining the cup. <a href=\"http:\/\/fifaworldcup.yahoo.com\/06\/en\/051219\/6\/5qhp.html\">And for the second year running, Brazilian Ronaldinho was recently named FIFA World Player of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[382],"tags":[511],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-festivities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}