Today is a special day: The opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics Games at 8:00pm on 8 August 2008 – a total of four eights which is supposedly to be an auspiciously good day according to the extremely superstitious Chinese. But the Chinese forgot that today’s date is based on the Gregorian calendar and not the Chinese calendar. But then, any 8 is good for the Chinese for it symbolizes wealth or prosperity.
The Olympics mascots have been blamed for the recent calamaties occured in China including the Sichuan earthquake. Human beings like to blame others for bad things that happened to them and these mascots are not spared. The irony of the blame is that The Fuwa (Olympics mascots) literally means “good-luck dolls”.
One of my colleagues was born on this day thirty three years ago but she does not celebrate her birthday because her religion does not allow her to do that.
Twenty years ago today one of my male cousins got married but tonight we are not invited to any anniversary dinner to commemorate the occasion. Instead my elder brother, sis-in-law and mum would be attending a wedding dinner at Shangrila Tanjung Aru Resort. And in mum’s own words ‘I have to miss out on the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics!’ *shucks*
Remembering Lang Lang 郎郎
8 years ago
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