Halloween is a traditional festival that has been passed on from one generation to another. It's name 'Hallows Eve' comes to mean the night before All Saints Day (1st November). It used to be an ancient religious feast then slowley changed itself through the years.

This feast is associated with costumes of ghosts, skeletons, witches and anything that looks scarey, as well as all sorts of traditional recipe's and games. In some cultures 'Mischief Night' would be to scare off any spirits lurking around the neighbourhood, usually the day before Halloween.

The most common tradition is that of 'Jack-o-Lantern' , or the traditional candle holder made out of a pumpkin or turnip.

There is so much to do on Halloween, but most of all is to enjoy and keep safe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbbqHc1Sc94

I thought about a half an hour how to write this post. I finally deleted all my presentation tags, and decided to post this video (with lyrics) to the ones that still have a belief in God. Sounds funny, yes.
Still, I couldn't say more about this video, and song...

I bet there are many of you out there that already know what anime/manga are, and maybe a few of you who are thinking ..hmm well,,sounds familiar,,but...

The word ANIME refers to the Japanese art of animation. Its characters are either hand-drawn or computer simulated. That same character that may do something unexpected; it's not rare for a star character to fail what they are doing or to pass away

MANGA is the Japanese word for 'comics'. It's a cross of western type comics and Japanese one's. It's usually published so you read them starting from the back of the book to the front. Like anime it can be full of different characters, the villain who has turned good and the hero who has become suddenly evil

Many manga become anime, and often video games, often in a 'squeezed up' manner.

Here are two of my past and present favourites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukf7Ef9bRII

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kCbwVFwjM8

If we enter a common Romanian school and talk to teenagers, we'll find out that most of them speak English, some pupils have some French knowledge, even fewer of them know a few words in German or Spanish.
Less than two decades ago, everyone in Romania used to speak Russian, nowadays only a few people have kept alive their interest in this language, drawing Russian to be considered "an almost exotic language".
Another language of which Romanian people have only a few abstract notions is Arabic. What is hidden beyond bellydancers and camels?
Today, Arabic language has assumed the status of an international language with a number of native speakers between 186 and 422 millions and as many as 246 millions non-native speakers in the four corners of the world. It is also known as "the language of Islam" and has served for centuries as the sacred, literary, and official language of Middle East countries. Moreover, how Philip k. Hitti remarked "For many centuries in the Middle Ages it was the language of learning and culture and progressive thought throughout the civilised world".
The European countries are "indebted" to Arabic for part of their vocabulary, idiom and diction. As the Oxford English Dictionary reveals the fact that a vast number of English words are of Arabic origin. And we shoudn't forget that its alphabet has been adopted by Persian, Pushtu, Urdu, Sindhi, Turkish, Malay and several other Oriental languages.
I, for instance, am one of the Romanian students fascinated by Arabic, a language which contains the basics of many philosophical and mathematical systems ( the numbers we use, the word "algebra" itself derive from Arabic), the language of the Quran, but also a never ceasing to exist source of literature.
Only a few people know that Arabic literature had a great influence on Shakespeare's plays and that Dante Aligheri's famous "Divine Comedy", considered the greatest epic of Italian literature, derived many features of and episodes from Arabic works, an Islamic eschatology: the "Hadith" and the "Kitab al-Miraj".
Some of the greatest masterpiece are "Layla and Majnun", a tragic love story like the later "Romeo and Juliet", and the famous arabic fiction "One thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights )".
An attempt at promoting Arabic culture and language was made by the students of the Arabic department from the University of Bucharest, by launching the project called "Cultural Arabic Horyzons", a website containing information about Arabic personalities, cuisine, culture and civilisation, which can be accessed at http://www.e-scoala.ro/arabic/

Sources:
"Arabic for Beginners", Dr. Syed Ali, Delhi, 2007
Wikipedia

Since it was Kitiara's birthday today (for which we congratulate her and wish her the best) I'd play this song dedicated to her as it would fit perfect in her latest mood and life experience at the moment.
It also could say more then a happy birthday song, so common today, played at the max.

Happy birthday Kit, and many years

P.S. Don't get me wrong on this (the song is great) so, who knows the song?