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For you the best wishes 
It's Burmese New Year Festival time, and water festival is hold traditionally with the intention of cleaning up the spiritual impurities that one might have had in the previous year. It suppose to be a time of contemplation,--- time to change, --- time to leave the mistakes that had been done, --- time to embrace the new year with the right way of living. New year celebration pictures coming out of Burma has been changing dramatically every year. As the year goes by, --- other than throwing water and staged bands, --- original intention and essence of new year celebration and water festival has lost. Sadly, every year, average Burmese look thinner and darker. If they are not thin, they look unhealthy --- looking oedematous due to excessive drinking of beverages of all kind. Almost no one was seen wearing traditional Burmese attire, even during this new year celebration time. Some woman dancing group wore "longyi" but strangely they are dancing with Chinese/Japanese folding fans.It looks so odd. It is very sad to see the graceful country and beautiful people in such a state.
It is happening in Japan town, S.F. This year is 41st annual celebration. Parade will be held this coming Sunday from 1:00 P.M to 3:00 P.M. It was fun to spend a day in the sun--- but I would like to see more of the authentic food variety. Cherries are really blooming and is very lovely. The whole Japan town is so crowded and it was very hard to find a parking 2 blocks around the town. I used the parking structure underneath and even the parking lots are full. However, the parking prices are very reasonable. I was there for like 3-4 hrs and it cost me about $5 total. Considering the high gas prices of close to $4 per gallon, I took it better to park in the structure rather than wasting time, stress, gas and facing accident prone situations while fighting for the parking.
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The winner is Cinderella. She likes to wear unusually baby blue color dresses, which is not stereotypical girly pink. However, this is not the reason that she is the Princess of the Day. Personality is a big role in the choice of the winner. Cinderella is down to earth, hard working, ordinary girl who dare to dream and does not fail to seize the opportunity that comes by. She is nice, behave well, and endure the hardship that she had to face. She waits for the Prince until he comes and looking for her. She keeps friends who cares for each other and helping out each other. She is a common girl who break through the barrier of seemingly impossible and make it to the favorite princess of all time. For that reason, she is the princess of the day.
