Comments on: Pop-up Stores

By: peter

peter — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:17:12 +0000

It Is not limited to developing countries , even here in Canada soliciting and canvassing are par for the course

Sometimes you see people sell things on sidewalks. Even ,I could say home to home canvassing is a way of business here and The U.S., but I don’t rule it out.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:51:35 +0000

I don’t know my friend Emiliano. I am not really into religious stuff. But ,I personally think we should do what it takes to preserve our past ,our history. Our customs and traditions are a part of our history. In fact, they are a inherent part of us .they form our identity ,ergo, Throwing them away is like throwing away our identity,and what really you are. It is like trying to be something you are not. Whatever you do my friend ,don’t ever let somebody make you over into something that you are not.No matter if it is exerted by a local government or imposed by foreigners.

I personally think the government should stop pushing it otherwise they would bring about identity crises and identity loss, particularly for the generations to come.

By: Nima

Nima — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:12:57 +0000

well, apparently in the third world -where I live- there is no need to pay for renting a pop-up store.
you can just use the street, It’s all yours!

But i like the whole idea, it can give my boring way to the home a fresh new look.

By: emiliano

emiliano — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:20:37 +0000

Now all young people and children have their Halloween too, but it is a new custom that comes from U.S.A. since several years really, as my
daughters began with it at the school when they were children.
But for me and the people of my generation Halloween is something very odd, in fact I didn´t know anything about this tradition when we were young or children, in fact the first time I saw it, Halloween, was in the film of E.T., and afterward it comes here as something peculiar and new……may be E.T. had something to do with it. Who knows?.
The tradition here was to go to the cementery and honor the relatives who were not more between us, and the families carry flowers to the
tombs and remember the parents, gran parents, or any other friend or familiy which has past away already.
I don´t like this tradition either, because it´s so sad to go and remember the deads. I prefer to remember them when they were alive and cheerful,
but I can understand perfectly well other kind of feelings, and sometimes I have to go to the cementery with some family.
The old traditions are going lost and new ones are coming, that´s life I think.
Catholic Church is lossing power here every year, litle by litle people don´t go to the religious feast and prefer to have other kind of celebrations.
In Cataluña, a region of Spain, their goverment wants to change the name of “Christmas” to the name of “Winter Feasts”, and change also “Holly Week to Spring Feast”.
What do you think Peter?.
I am not a very religious person but I don´t like these kind of changes, nothing at all.
Christmas is Christmas, and doesn´t matter if I am or not catholic, the same as Holly Week.
Now is also Halloween instead of the Day of All Saints, that was the feast before. but about this I don´t care.
Regards Peter.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:36:31 +0000

My dear friend Emiliano,

What piqué my curosity is , if you guys have some traditions like that

By: Tania

Tania — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:37:43 +0000

Hi ! It is night and dark … all kind of orange and black shadows … a Jack-o-lantern lighting … and a mysterious voice asking : “Trick or treat ?”
Don’t be afraid ! We are , all your students . We are waiting for a candy . But your lessons are our candies every day .
They are sweeter even than a candy .

All the best for you all with only harmless spirits ,

Tania

By: Tania

Tania — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:17:53 +0000

Oh ! Nice compliment for me , Emiliano ! Thank you .

Peter , you frighten us with Poltergeist . I don’t like ghosts . I’m afraid of bad dreams .

Tania

By: emiliano

emiliano — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:32:04 +0000

As an example of mithology and Christians:

(from WIKI too)

Knock on wood

Meaning:
The phrase used by people who rap their knuckles on a piece of wood hoping to stave off bad luck. In the UK the phrase ‘touch wood’ is used – often jokingly by tapping one’s head. The phrases are usually used when one is already experiencing some good fortune and hope that it will continue – e.g. “I’ve been winning on every race – touch wood”.
Origin;
knock on wood The derivation may be the association that wood and trees have with good spirits in mythology, or with the Christian cross. It used to be considered good luck to tap trees to let the wood spirits within know you were there. Traditions of this sort still persist in Ireland.

Now has been Cuca who told me about the phrase that lot of people use everwhere to avoid bad luck or bad fate.
Cuca thinks is from the Celts culture too that comes the phrase, as they use to touch the trees to be healthy and have good luck, and she is an
expert about history.

I would be houres writing here in touch with all my friends instead of touching my head….but now I want my tea. Sorry.

By: emiliano

emiliano — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:56:02 +0000

Tania, you have the quality of moving my curiosity, and after reading your post I have been reading Wik. about the feast.
Yes it´s from Celtic traditions the name and the custom of celebrating this feast of Halloween. In WIk. there are great information about the matter, and quite interesting indeed.

It seems that all were very old pagans feasts from Romans, Celts, or even anciant people as Persians, Egipts, and so forth. But the Christian Church was disappointed with them and make “their” feast at the same time that pagans.
Celts have nothing to do with the Christians and did their own feasts from a long time, till the point that this one Halloween is one that comes from them. Irish, Scotish, Galeics, and so forth.
In fact were heads of their enemies what were placed on the windows with a latern, waiting they could teach some of the wisdom about war or similar.

Also Celts want to celebrate the end of summer, as all the feast were relative to the Earth, The Sun, Spring, Moon, Harvest and so on. Afterward, in America, the heads were replaced by the pumpkins which are more civilized, also more english and christian, I think.

I know nearly nothing about all the meaning of this day represents to Celts and English traditions and you have picked my curiosity Tania.

Thanks a lot for that, you are a treasure here in the Blog.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:04:29 +0000

Too pedontic sometimes,

I have the attention span of a one-year old. you should see my hand writing. It is a matching trait,totally child-like