Well I’m a bit embarassed that Chinese New Year caught me by surprise this year. I was wondering why it was so difficult to drive out of Chinatown last night. The traffic was nuts.
Anyway, it’s the Year of the Pig. It’s funny to me how some of the animals that we kind of dis here in the West are the ones that the Chinese consider the best. For instance, the Rat is the smartest animal, and the Pig is the luckiest. If you were born in a Year of the Pig, you can expect to be very lucky. Good luck with that!
Other pig-like attributes are honesty, straightforwardness, and patience. They’re considered shy and modest. On the other hand, don’t tick off a pig. They can be vengeful. They are conservative by nature and don’t like to be far from their familiar surroundings.
I’m having a porkchop today to celebrate the Year of the Pig.
Do they have year of the cockroach? Because if you were born on that year, then you’d be totally badass and indestructible =P
Apparently in China they have release scratch, sniff and taste postal stamps to celebrate the Year of the Pig. When scratched they smell like sweet and sour pork, and when licked they taste like the dish. Haha…wonder what they will do for the Year of the Rat!
i’m the year of the pig!
its good to have good luck on the year i graduate 🙂
except, i am not at all patient. or modest. but, definitely conservative.
I’m a rat 😛 I’m smarter than you ner ner.
I’m a boar … and also a bit of a pig 😉
i was born in the year of the goat…got this off some site “A Suitable “Animal” is Perfect as a Partner, Coworker, or Married with you. The Goat will get along WELL with the Rabbit and the *Pig*, but have to AVOID the Ox!” — hey — so its my lucky year
from: https://gohongkong.about.com/od/hongkongfestivals/a/CNYHoroscopes.htm
“The Pig
Disappointingly, even though it’s the year of the Pig, you and the presiding god don’t see eye to eye and the year is not a lucky one. All aspects of your life will be affected by your little spat between you. One piece of good news is that you should find powerful people around you who are willing to help when pigs need to fly.”
so it is not my luck! aaah! i am confused!
Gung Hay Fat Choy or Chuc Mung Nam Moi (in Vietnamese)!