Let No One Steal Your Peace: Happy Chinese New Year

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Happy Chinese New Year

I had a good day today. Hung out with Mary Christmas a lot. It is nice to have him home for a week. Anywho. I went to a meeting. During the meeting I sent a text message to The Boy Who Knits asking if he wanted to have Chinese food after. After the meeting, we were hanging trying to figure out what we were gonna do. This kid walks right up to The Boy Who Knits and says, "Happy Chinese New Year to you!" We all just busted out laughing. Kenny has a great sense of humour. We started talking about that a little and then headed to dinner. At dinner, The Boy Who Knits was impressed that I knew the following about Chinese culture:

The Chinese use mascots assigned to each year. There are twelve so they are recycled every twelve years. According to the year you were born, you have the characteristics of that mascot. BUT BE CAREFUL! It goes by the Chinese calendar not the Gregorian Calendar. Many people are mistaken as to what there mascot is because of this.

You can read more about the current Chinese New Year, Year of the Dog here.

Boy Who Knits, was just imoressed that I was, as he put it, "so cultured" Naw dude, I'm not cultured. I just know a lot of useless information. Really, I do.

Go over and wish The Boy Who Knits a Happy Chinese New Year.

# posted by Cisco @ 10:23 PM