Editor's Note: Happy Year of the Snake

The Dragon has just departed, and it's the Snake's turn.

With the world's finance in protracted turmoil, no wonder even financial experts toy with the Chinese zodiac/horoscope, and you shall find diverse views of what the year is going to be like, in any parameter important to you.

Amid all the schisms of the World, one does find some encouraging signs. Even if it may be lip service, I am glad the US Post continued to issue Chinese Lunar New Year stamps, designed by Chinese-American Kam Mak. I actually like the US stamp a lot better than those from China and Hong Kong, which are disappointingly bland.

In any case, NOTHING should stop us from listening to music on a decent system, which I am sure is the way to world peace. Have a good year!