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Mrupupup wishes all Chinese readers and those who celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year in the world - like Hong Kong, Brunei, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Happy Lunar New Year and best wishes from the funny Minions (got this funny greetings from the web). Enjoy  the funny clip below and have a good Horse Year ahead. For non-Mandarin speaking readers : Horse is the zodiac animal for the 2014 Chinese Lunar New Year.

Mrupupup saw this in someone's email and found it was informative. Never knew of the pictures behind China's Renminbi notes. Ok, just to share and hope you find the information interesting. China is a fascinating country with a wide and varied landscape, do visit this country in your life time. Mrupupup has visited China a few times. Banknotes are known as “national name card.” and RMB (or Renminbi ) is China`s name card. Currently China have issued a total of five sets of RMB.  Do you want to know what sceneries are found on the back of the notes? Below is a list of these places on the back of different version of RMB : 1. The back of 100 Yuan RMB (The third version of the first set RMB) – Longevity Hill in Summer Palace Longevity Hill is a 60-meter-high hill in the gardens of the Summer Palace in Beijing, China. Together with Kunming Lake, it shap

Check this out- the very 'real' Kung Fu Panda from China. Super flying kicks!

Went to Zhu Hai (in China) and Macau. The two areas are close to each other. One can just walk across the immigration and you would reach the other side. Apparently, many Chinese just walk across to Macau from Zhu Hai to indugle in gambling in Macau. Do get ready to fill up many immigrations cards and have many chops on your passport if you like to travel both areas on the same day (which is possible). With the two territories so nearby, one can use Chinese Yuan, Hong Kong Dollar and Macau Patacas for their daily transactions. All the 3 currencies are equivalent in value to each other. You can use PutongHua (Mandarin), Portuguese, English or Cantonese (Chinese dialect) to speak to the locals there. There are at least 28 casinos in Macau from the grand outfit like Venetian Macau to the small gambling complex. With the casinos, there exists almost side by side the pawn shops where people pawn away their valuables to gamble. I am more interested in the cultural aspects of the trip,