Sa pag pasok ng 2009, isang pulang pulang pagbati sa inyong lahat ng Kung Hei Fat choy! Sana mas buenas ako sa year of the ox!  Ito ang aking seal tanda ng aking paninindigan sa litratongpinoy ngayung taon 2009.

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A Chinese seal is a seal or stamp containing Chinese characters typically used in East Asia (China, Korea, Japan) to prove identity on documents, office paperwork, contracts, art, or similar items where authorship or proof of receipt is considered important.

Chinese seals are typically made of stone, sometimes of wood, bamboo, plastic, or ivory, and are typically used with red ink or cinnabar paste (Chinese: 朱砂; pinyin: zhūshā). The word 印 (”yìn” in Mandarin, “in” in Japanese) specifically refers to the imprint created by the seal, as well as appearing in combination with other ideographs in words related to any printing, as in the Japanese word “insatsu”. The colloquial name chop, when referring to these kinds of seals, was adapted from the Malay word cap during the colonization of the Straits Settlements, and is still used to refer to rubber stamps. ~wikipedia~