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Back home early today~ i'm bored so don't complain that this entry is boring :D ..i finally got my dumb astro installed after a few days of arguing with the astro dealers..damn those bastards, they jus luv wasting my time don't they? *evil smile* i subscribed for every existing channel there is to subscribe hehehehehehe.. hope my sis doesn't screw me upside down when she sees the bill xD
Bleah..my babe went to penang for Chinese New Year, =/ won't be seeing her for bout a few more days @.@..good thing she calls me now and then =P

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Been reading some magazines about the origins of Cny, well its a legend but a long long longggggggggggggggggg time ago there was this beast called the "Nian".. it was a ferocious monster which had a freakin big mouth that could swallow a great number of people with a single bite...talk about a big mouth.. then came an old man who wuz a immortal god in disguise..he challenged the monster "Nian" to swallow the other beasts of prey instead of people..well the monster took the bait and swallowed all the beasts and died with constipation..xD
The old man disappeared with the "Nian" and the people began to enjoy a more peaceful and productive life instead of a life where a beast would bite ur ass when u go to the loo. They didn't have toilets back then ok! =P so where else would u go other than the bushes~
The old man told the people to hang red paper decorations on their doors and windows on each year's end to scare away the "Nian" if it ever came back coz the beast didn't like red so if yea don't wanna get ur ass bitten wear red underwear!

"Guo Nian" as some of you may be familiar of.. means passing the year( direct translation) or celebrate the new year.. but it may mean " Surviving the Nian " which means surviving the attack of the beast.. so red colour deco's and firecrackers scare away the Nian which may be running around amok... but people now probably won't know the origins of Cny coz its way too old to be traced.. my story may be fabricated by some smart ass bitches who had nothing to do but write fake stories..

Ok lets talk about the Chinese Lunar calender..its a yearly calender with the start of it being based on the cycles of the moon. There are twelve years in a single cycle..each year representing a different zodiac..or an animal to make things easier.. it starts with the year of the rat followed by the ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and finally the boar/pig. This new year would be the year of boar/pig which would mean that the cycle would return to the year of the rat next year. Theres a legend that said that Lord Buddha summoned all the animals to come to him before he departed..and only the 12 animals listed above came to bid him farewell..so he named a year after each animal that had come according to the order which they had arrived. So the boar/pig being the most lazy one..came in last i guess ..ahaha..