Traditions to celebrate a birthday in different countries

The birthday is a most favorite holiday for all children, when all the attention is only to a hero of the event. So we will talk about birthday traditions in different countries. Traditions to celebrate a birthday vary from continent to continent, from country to country, let’s see what kind of traditions different nations have:

Asia:

I guess in China, a birthday is a best day of a year, because most families has only one child last time due to demographical reasons, so all the attention of parents and guests is to a kid. Though all kids are obliged to show a respect to his/her parents. Like, for example, girls must help in cooking and boys in house keeping. Normally noodles are invited to wish a child a long happy life.

Children of Japan have a largest number of holidays. Besides a birthday they has special holidays for girls and boys separately, holidays devoted to a certain human age. The born of a child is the most important event in life of the family. I would like to emphasize that the most important birthday dates of a child are 1, 3, 5, 7 years like 60 and 70 for olderly people.

In Vietnam, unfortunately, they do not recognize their individual birthdays, but use to celebrate it at the beginning of the New Year.

In Korea the most significant birthday is called “tol” and celebrated on the first year child’s birth. It includes certain traditions like a kind of fortunetelling, when people are trying to guess about the future of a child. They place things on the table in front of the child and let him to choose one of items. When he or she will grow up – he will get a profession or skills depending on what he or she chose. This popular old tradition has a place nowadays and has spread to other countries.

Africa:

In South Africa people are following an old tradition: a presentation of a key made of aluminum foil or silver, or even gold, given by parents at age 21. It is suppose to be a symbol of a child’s readiness to unlock the door to his/her future.

In Europe the birthday celebration is quite similar thing, though each culture has a special zest:

For example, in Denmark, a flag is hoisted outside a window symbolizing the birthday of the house owner or someone who lives in. To make the child feel happy on birthday parents place all gifts around the bed while he/she is sleeping, then he/she can see them immediately upon awaking.

The special birthday dates in Holland are 5, 10, 15, 20, and 21 – on these birthdays the boy or girl usually gets great gifts. And, of course, living in the country of Flowers – parents decorate the kid’s room, tables, chairs with beautiful flowers and balloons.

We can keep talking about birthday traditions in different countries as there are more then 200 countries in the world, not talking about nations or national groups.

Still one or the integral parts of each birthday all over the world are a birthday cake and birthday cards. We wish you every your birthday to be better then the previous one gathering many devoted friends and relatives together!

Here you can find best birthday ecards and printable birthday cards!

The world of flash games for casual users of Internet.

By statistic around 45% of users are surfing in Internet without a special aim, trying to get some entertainment. The life like a speed train is running ahead involving us into to hurricane of events. And when a time of vacation comes or unexpected illness keeping us staying at home, or school holidays, you may get bored from abundance of spare time. The human nature is venturesome, willing for entertainment and to raise adrenalin. Online games is a good instrument to satisfy this nature without loosing money, without odd risks, without bad after-effects they relax your intense mind, giving rest to your thoughts emotions and body, taking away amassed stress. Flash games won’t ask you to think much; they don’t have high demands to your computer hardware, but immersed you into a virtual world, the world of fantasy where everything is possible.

Well, online games are more and more popular and there is many game portal which offers thousands of games, but high quality games is only a quarter of this mass. We’ll talk about GamezHero portal, with many quality games divided into categories. It has quite simple interface understandable for users, easy controls in games, and no need for downloading plus it’s a free service. We’ll review some of categories.

Action games contain many free addicting games for your choice like Dynamic Double team based on Batman comic’s characters, where playing a Batman and Blue Beetle you will challenge Kanjar Ro’s space pirates saving an entire planet from possible distraction. Straw Hat Samurai is a unique fighting; crazy racing in Dream Racer made in 3D graphic and many others.

If you prefer to play games by yourself – no need for registration, just load a game and go ahead. For multiplayer mode you’ll have to pass a simple registration.

Arcade games – interesting game: Look out, Mr. Johnson!, where actually you are the ghost help to your friend in his adventure by… eating people. Well know Sonic Xtreme, where you should avoid the cankerworms; Batman series: “Batman. The cat and the bat” where you challenge a Cat woman, who stole your utility belt, fighting the robotic lions.

Many more interesting games like races, games for girls, puzzle, and sport you will find here.

One more plus of multimode online games is that you can find friends, just someone like you – casual user of Internet, and who know they may became your real friends.

Wrath of the Lich King

Wrath of the Lich King: World of Warcraft Windows Edition

Master the necromantic powers of the Death Knight — World of Warcraft's first Hero Class. Create a new Death Knight character with a starting level of 55 and break the chains of the Lich King to forge your own destiny. Power your way through new quests and dungeons as you seize ever greater abilities. Assault the terrifying Wrathgate, war in Lake Wintergrasp, uncover the secrets of Dalaran reborn and much more.

You've turned the tide against the demonic evils of Outland. Now the Lich King Arthas has set in motion events that will lead to the extinction of all life on Azeroth. With the undead legions of the Scourge threatening to sweep across the land, you must strike at the heart of the frozen abyss and end the Lich King's reign of terror for all time.

The difference of this edition are the ff:

• Lay waste to destructible buildings in your path

• Battle to Level 80 and power your way through new quests and dungeons as you seize ever greater abilities.

• Master the necromantic powers of the Death Knight.

• Command mighty siege engines to bombard your enemies.

• Discover the harsh, icy continent of Northrend, the bleak heart of the Lich King's empire of undeath.

Here are some sneak previews:

Free Online Games, Downloads and Lots of Arcade Games For Kids and Adults

This will be my very first post so I want this one to be remembered, especially by all the free online games addicts. As I was studying my first move, i decided to have it as light as possible. I want a useful post for all free arcade gamers, both adult and kids/children.

I got here list of free online games. These list are free arcade games for children and adults.
Hope you enjoy the fun playing these online games.

Here is the list of free online games.

• http://www.freegamesforyourwebsite.com/
• http://www.net-games.biz/
• http://www.funtasticgames.com/
• http://www.miniclip.com/games/en/
• http://www.game01.info/
• http://www.fishflashgames.com/
• http://www.gamesoid.com/
• http://www.dailygames.com/
• http://www.y8.com/
• http://www.w3games.org/
• http://www.gamepuma.com/
• http://www.arcadetemple.com/
• http://www.onlineflashgames.org/
• http://www.pcgame4fun.com/

I hope you enjoy the list.. I will be more pleased if you post your replies...

Thank you guys.. Play games!!! Play Arcade Games!!

Light Bot Walkthrough

Light Bot is a fun puzzle game. Simply 'program' your robot to move to each of the blue squares and light it up. You need to learn to be efficient, but each you get two functions along with the main program to play with. So, it's just a matter of learning how to put those repeatable steps into the functions and use those when you can.

If you get stuck, there's a walkthrough below. If you want to try it on your own, play Light Bot at armorgames.

WALKTHROUGH: DO NOT READ BELOW THIS LINE IF YOU WANT TO DO IT ON YOUR OWN!

In each level, your program consists of three sections. The Main, function 1 and function 2. The programs you can put in are left, right, forward, light, jump, function1 and function2. I don't claim this is the most efficient to any of the levels, but it will get you by.

Level 1:
Main program: Forward, forward, light
Function 1:
Function 2:

Level 2:
Main program: Right, forward, left, forward, forward, forward, forward, left, forward, light
Function 1:
Function 2:

Level 3:
Main program: Forward, jump, jump, forward, light, left, forward, light, forward, light.
Function 1:
Function 2:

Level 4:
Main program: Forward, jump, jump, forward, right, forward, forward, forward, forward, forward, light.
Function 1:
Function 2:

Level 5:
Main program: jump, F1, F1, jump, jump, jump, light
Function 1: Forward, forward, forward, light
Function 2:

Level 6:
Main program: F1, right, F1, light, jump, right, F2, right, right, F2, F2
Function 1: forward, jump jump
Function 2: Forward, forward, forward, light

Level 7:
Main program: F2, light, right, forward, right, light, F2
Function 1:forward, light, forward, light, forward, light, forward, light
Function 2: F1, F1

Level 8:
Main program: Jump, forward, light, F2, right, F1, F1, F2, right, F2
Function 1: F2, F2, right
Function 2: Forward, forward, light

Level 9:
Main program: Jump, left, jump, F2
Function 1: jump, light, forward, light, jump, light, right
Function 2: F1, F1, F1, F1

Level 10 (I found this to be the hardest one):
Main program: F1, F2, left, jump, right, F1, F1, F1, F1, left, F2, F1
Function 1: jump, jump, jump, forward, forward, forward, light, right
Function 2: left, jump, left, jump, forward, right, jump

Level 11:
Main program: F1, jump, right, F1, jump, right, F1
Function 1: F2, F2, left, jump, left, F2, F2, right
Function 2: Light, forward, light, forward, light, forward, light, forward

Level 12:
Main program: Forward, jump, light, F1, F1, F1, F2, light
Function 1: Jump, light, Jump, light, jump, light, right
Function 2: Jump, light, jump, light, jump, F1, F1, F1

Applicate ver.0

A new game from the creator of the Grow series is out and it's called Applicate. Very short simple game of dropping apples. There's no directions, but it's not that hard to figure out.

The objective of each of the five levels is to get an apple eye guy (see the image... the apples with eyes in them are apple eye guys) to the door. Every time you click on an apple that is already on the screen, you take a bite out of it, dropping a new apple where the arrow is currently located. If you drop an apple on an uneaten apple, an apple eye guy will appear.

Keep in mind, he will always try walking to the right first. You may need to block his way to get him to turn around and go back to the doorway.

It sounds weird, but the graphics are as good as always. If you need any hints, ask below in the comments and I'll try to walk you through each level.

With only five levels, this is a short game to play if you're interested.

Play Applicate Ver.0 at eyezmaze.

Brute Wars

Brute Wars is a pretty good RPG game just released on kongregate. Pick your team of brutes (animals) making sure to balance your magical prowess as well as your brute force. Then get out there and conquer the castles in an attempt to reach mount Asio.

Really, the story line isn't all that exciting, nor is it all that pertinent to the game play.
Just put together the best team you can. You'll have to take into account several different factors to advance.

First, there's a front and a back line. Keep your power hitters up front, and your distance hitters in back. But if someone's taking a beating, it's helpful to have another power hitter to switch in for him.

You only get so many actions a turn, so replacing someone in the front line may use up all your actions for a turn. Later on in the game, you'll have more actions per turn to play with, making it easier to switch men in and out.

The gameplay is not intuitive, so read through the directions.

Magical spells are stronger if you have more of the same type of character (water, fire, brute, etc...) But it also makes it more likely you could go up against someone who's in a great position to hit you in your weak point. I liked to balance things out more.

You can replace some of your characters by getting to a shop and buying a randomizer. That's the only way to get shadow creatures. This option will not be available right away.

You can travel back over spots you've already fought for to engage in random battles and build up points to buy food, syringes (to wake up those dozing creatures -- they've been knocked out) and randomizers. You also need the points to buy the upgrades (treasure chests on the map).

Play Brute Wars at kongregate.