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Dear members and friends, On behalf of the Swiss Club Committee, Gong Xi Fa Cai! We wish you the best in the Year of the Dragon. Gong Xi Fa Cai… what does it really mean? Some would argue the real spelling is Gong Hey Fat Choy or, for the really literate, “Gun Tso Sun Tan’Gung Haw Sun” or “Kung His Hsin Nien Bing Chu Shen Tan”… Gong Xi Fa Cai (Mandarin) and Gong Hey Fat Choy (Cantonese) have the same meaning, and share the same pictograms in both traditional and simplified Chinese: “Congratulations and be prosperous”. Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays, and is celebrated in many parts of the world beyond China and South-East Asia, by some estimates by one quarter of the world’s population. In China it is known as “Spring Festival,” and marks the end of the winter season. The festival begins on the first day of the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar and ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day. Chinese New Year’s Eve, a day where Chinese families gather for their annual reunion dinner, is known as Chú Xiī or “Eve of the Passing Year”. Although the Chinese calendar does not use continuously numbered years, outside China its years are often numbered from the reign of the Yellow Emperor. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by various scholars, making the year 2012 “Chinese Year” 4710, 4709, or 4649. word from the committee jean-daniel renevey To keep it simple, let’s not discuss here the lunisolar calendar, the leap months, the 12-year cycle of the animal zodiac or the 10-year cycle of heavenly stems. If you are interested, visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year, the main source of inspiration for this article. Just in time for the celebration, in January, the Arbenz Restaurant reinvented itself under a new concept, with a new menu, led by Chef Michael Gruber. If you haven’t dined there since the re-launch…Come in, bring your guests along, discover the unique experience of a “Brasserie with Style” in the heart of the jungle. Some of you may have observed that the tall jungle trees around the Club are getting old and fragile. Each year, a few of them fall due to heavy rain, lightning or gusts of wind. To ensure lush greenery for the generations to come, our GM took the initiative and planted some secondary growth, a new generation of young trees, which will grow over the next couple of years, while the ageing ones slowly ‘retire‘. One last thing… Mark February 25th on your calendar for the Boogie Woogie Night. See the “Word from the Manager” opposite for more details. Yours faithfully, Jean-Daniel Renevey Committee Member 6 Relax FEBRUARY 2012
Dear members, Get ready for a real Boogie Woogie Night on the 25th of February! Dress up in your best Fifties fashion and win a dinner for two at Arbenz. NicoBrina, the King of Boogie, will be playing live at the Club exclusively for our members. Please reserve early to get front-row seats. For those who can’t make it on the night there will be a Boogie Woogie Breakfast on the 11th of March at the Pergola. The Arbenz restaurant is now in full swing too. Please refer to our insert for more information! With the new Pergola menu being smaller but including a staggering eight daily specials, we hope to ring the changes and make dining there more interesting. We hope you’ll find suitable dishes moo moo’s bone Question: Do kids fight? Answer: Yes they do, it’s natural! Question: Do parents and kids fight? Answer: Yes they do, that’s natural! Question: Do parents fight about the way kids are allowed to behave in the Swiss Club? Answer: Yes they do… now that’s NOT natural! Question: Should parents be role models for their kids, especially when they are ‘discussing’ their different approaches to bringing up children? Answer: Yes they SHOULD! Relax FEBRUARY 2012 word from the club manager heinz iten to satisfy your cravings among the many specials. Fewer regular items means fresher food. Exactly like the motto of the year: fresh, healthy and tasty. Advance notice is given for the sporty ones among you: please note that we are organising a Mount Rinjani trek to take place over the Easter holidays. Flying to Lombok, Indonesia, on Thursday, the 5th of April in the afternoon and coming back on Monday night. This will be kind of a qualifier for the Mera Peak trek (6500m) in Nepal coming in October. Time to start getting back into shape! Cheers! Heinz Iten So, dear parents, can you lighten up please, and be a little more tolerant of different parenting styles! MooMoo 7
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