Happy New Year - Happy 2009! As you can see, I have not been active on my blog since last Spring, actually not since Whitsun. But a lot of things have happened in my life since then, occupied me and made it impossible to keep up the blogging as I had wanted.

But now we have just entered a brand new year. I do not normally make any New Year resolutions, but this year I will: Well, I promise myself (I am probably the only one interested anyway) to regularly contribute to my blog here. I hope I can keep the promise - and catch my thoughts and feelings in words I am able to pen on paper... or rather compute on the screen at regular intervals.

But where am I? Not in China anymore, so it is not a blog about my life in China. Not Sweden either. Actually, since November 1 (2008) I have been living in Denmark. In the beautiful suburb of Copenhagen called Kongens Lyngby. This is the third period of my life I live in this part of Denmark.... the move to here was the 50th change of home since I was born!!! Not many people can break that record, I think. The first eight changes happened in my childhood and was not my decisions or doings. But I have - since I 15 years of age left my parental home - moved another 41 times. So adding it up to altogether 50 different places I have called my home. In five different countries: Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, England and China. And now I am back in Denmark.

So most of my future scriblings here on the blog will be from life in Denmark, but as China continue to fill a significant part of my heart.... about 80-85%... probably I cannot avoid to mention China, Chinese people, Chinese affairs in my blogging.

And soon it will be Chinese New Year - or Spring Festival. On Sunday, January 25 Chinese people all over the world will celebrate Lunar New Years Eve and on Monday, January 26 begins the Year of the Ox (year 4706 according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar).

In my next contribution to this blog I will look closer at the Chinese Lunar New Year and Spring Festival.