Should Singapore have its official Thanksgiving holiday?

• angel7030

  5 Aug 07, 13:07

  Originally posted by zanemiller:

  We rarely take out the time to formally thank someone for what they've done, do we? Hell, it can be another public holiday and an alumni, family or friends gathering can't it. Thanking each other across the table, eating some fried pigeon, wouldn't it be great?

  Thanks what? Gst Increase or extension of retirement age?
  
  Ya hell, next month ghost festival, they may give you an holiday to thanks hell.
• jondizzle foshizzle

  5 Aug 07, 13:22

  lol Thanksgiving isn't a christian holiday, it's not even a religious holiday. It's to commemorate the day when the American pioneers made peace with the native Americans or something like that I'm not sure because I'm not American but it's something along the lines of that.
• 798

  6 Aug 07, 00:01

  Originally posted by LazerLordz:

  New Year isn't a Christian holiday.

  our calendar is in A.D:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.D.
• LazerLordz

  6 Aug 07, 00:02

  Originally posted by 798:

  our calendar is in A.D:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.D.

  Yup, but it is not a holiday commerorating anything related to Christ or Christianity.
• 798

  6 Aug 07, 00:11

  Originally posted by LazerLordz:

  Yup, but it is not a holiday commerorating anything related to Christ or Christianity.

  look at this:
  
  "Years in the calendar are numbered from the traditional birth year of Jesus, which has been labeled the "anno Domini" (AD) era, and is sometimes labeled the "common era" or the "Christian Era" (CE)."
  
  so from the date we r living wif, we r counting from the birth of jesus till now, so new year is actually origin from christian.
  
  
• LazerLordz

  6 Aug 07, 00:11

  Originally posted by 798:

  look at this:
  
  "Years in the calendar are numbered from the traditional birth year of Jesus, which has been labeled the "anno Domini" (AD) era, and is sometimes labeled the "common era" or the "Christian Era" (CE)."
  
  so from the date we r living wif, we r counting from the birth of jesus till now, so new year is actually origin from christian.
  
  

  Aiyoh..
  
  Whatever lah.
• SingaporeMacross

  6 Aug 07, 00:20

  Originally posted by allentyb:

  its turkey, you noob
  
  and this is not a christian or western country, so why should we have thanksgiving as a public holiday , you should be thankful, that chirstmas is already a public holiday

  Wrong! This is not an American country!!
• TheGoodEarth

  6 Aug 07, 02:44

  Originally posted by latterrain:

  Can set it at 16 Sept.

  Wow, on my birthday. No need to take leave. Thanks for Giving me day off to celebrate!
• MobyDog

  6 Aug 07, 02:57

  No.. Thanksgiving is actually an American Genocide celebration for each Massacre of native Red Indians... on any given day... and they made it into a religious festival ?
  
  Do you really want this kind of American Culture here ? Absord any good foreign practice, culture or festival... but not this one.
• TheGoodEarth

  6 Aug 07, 04:50

  Originally posted by SingaporeMacross:

  Wrong! This is not an American country!!

  Wrong! Where got cowboys and red indians here? Bushes may be!