According to the Times, the year of the pig is set to be very auspicious, hurrah!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/china/article1390527.ece

I have two meals planned for Sunday with relatives, and then... LAZER TAG!!!

a four day public holiday PLUS the salary paid at the end of January would be DOUBLE PAY for that month

This is teh awesome!

I’m born under the sign of the Pig, so this is an auspicious year for me! Time to start anew and so on. Yay! CNY around Melbourne should be megafun, chinatown in the city always goes crazy with fun this time of year. Also, our city Lord Mayor is this cool Chinese guy, so it is assured!

I was born in the year of the Dog as was Kate. We were discussing this at Kate’s Burns Night party coz she has a Chinese calendar on her wall from the Chinese restaurant at the end of her road. Not only does it detail all the different animals and the years they relate to, it says which ppl get on. My gf was relived to see that 1975 babies born in the year of the Rabbit get on well with Dogs although i did point out the absurdity of any harmony resulting from putting Rabbits and Dogs together!

Al Stewart would no doubt be distrught to discover that there is no Year of the Cat.

What’s your favourite chinese food?

Crispy duck!

Let the dog see the rabbit, hur hur.

Let the dog see the rabbit

my Dad used to say that ALL the time! I even wrote a song about it! the chorus went

I know this is going to sound

Really, really bad

I’m starting to use expressions

That are used by my dad

and the verse went

There’s a pint for me standing on the bar

I’m trying desperately to grab it

There’s loads of people in the way

I say “Let the dog see the rabbit!”

Suddenly a motorcyclist

Comes whizzing down the road

He does an impromptu wheelie

And I say “Well I’ll be blowed!”

I imagine Chas’n’Dave singing that. With Beryl on backing vocals.

Please make this happen.

there was another verse that concerned “stone the crows!” as well.

I went through a comedy song writing stage in early 2001. Anything could spark me off. I remember i was on my way back from Brighton having just visited Archel and the train passed through a place called Dorking Deepdene. i thought it was a funny name so wrote a song about it which went

Dorking Deep, Dorking Deep, Dorking Deepdene how lovely, Dorking Deep, Dorking Deep, Dorking Deepdene how lovely!

I took a train

to Dorking Deepdene

Don’t call me stingy

No don’t call me mean

It’s more exclusive

To travel by cab

But I’m impoverished coz I work in a lab

Dorking Deep, Dorking Deep, Dorking Deepdene how lovely, Dorking Deep, Dorking Deep, Dorking Deepdene how lovely!

I took a train to Dorking Deepdene

I’m feeling sanguine, I’m feeling serene

I read a book until something distracts me

That’s not so easy if you travel by taxi

Hey, Fat Choy to you all! :-)

We’re heading back home for a friend’s yearly party. I need to go pick up a gallon of chili sauce and red packets for the kids today!

I think this might be just the excuse need to try out Dim Sum Sunday Lunch at See Woo.

wow. . I want to live in HK.

I’m also thinking this would be a good weekend for Dim Sum at our Chinese brother-in-law’s restaurant.

2+2 = 5

that’s a Dim Sum.

well, almost the same thing, i celebrate TET! happy new year! the temple hosted celebrations last weekend, it was wonderful! my favorite part will always be fireworks/dragon. i was born under the horse sign—my mom and uncle too!

Dim Sum lunch with the fam tmrw—not just for CNY but also to celebrate my brother-in-law’s birthday.

I am a pig person, rah. Birthday two weeks from today!

i’m excited for long life noodles.

they pale in comparison to life-long noodles.

Gung Hay Fat Choy!!

Might do dim sum on Monday.

Mark, in all fairness, noodles are rather pale to begin with.

I think this might be just the excuse need to try out Dim Sum Sunday Lunch at See Woo.

might they not be closed dear?

i am going to bodeans tonight and will have pulled pork in honour of year of pig.

ohhhh steal my jokes why don’t you!

hurrah! gung xi fat cai

i’m like, totally in hong kong. having just come back from singapore.

i received loads of FREE CASH from my sister’s rich in-laws. GET IN.

Mark, in all fairness, noodles are rather pale to begin with.

that’s why you cook it with dark soy sauce

i never realized before that Ned is exactly one day older than i am.

you’ve done your maths wrong

you’re not almost 72

I’ll go to an office party with delicious foods but funnily enough last year they served Japanese food for CNY...? So a trip for real dim sum on the side is a distinct possibility.

:( the sciences hate me.

i never realized before that Ned is exactly one day older than i am.

And that makes both of you only a week or 2 older than me :D

As a Swinburn, I suppose this is pretty auspicious for me.

i am AN ORSE

kung hei fat choi ppl. i wish i was at hong kong harbour. or repulse bay.

This rat did not go for dim sum, after all—but I did go for an eight-course CNY lunch. Phew. Happy new year, everybody.

i went to dim sum!

Trayce, as an FYI, this year will actually be inauspicious for you, according to my Chinese momma. For some arcane zodiacal reason, when your zodiac year comes up, it’s not a good thing, and you have to do some Buddhist somesuch to ward off the inauspiciousness. Alternately, you can send me $$$ and I will see to it! ^_^

Oh dear! :|

So I gotta do a Buddhist for luck, right. Any takers?

Hold on, I’m converting right now.

There, OM ready!

Badoom tish.

See Woo was groaning with people and we hadn’t booked so we went to my local indie coffee shop instead. Dim Sum next Sunday, maybe.

i never realized before that Ned is exactly one day older than i am.

Conspiracy.

It’s more Tet around here given the Vietnamese emigre population, but of course it’s the same celebration, so roxor.

RED ENVELOPES, YEAH! MOTHERFUCKERS

i got some waiting for me at home this weekend :D

That noise that sounds like someone at the end of a concrete hallway pissing into an unlined metal garbage can? It’s the firecrackers going off down in the alleys of Chinatown.

The holiday is increasingly big business in Vegas, moreso than the Superbowl. They even flew in Jacky Cheung to play a few dates.

omg jacky cheung!!!

i know! I thought he had killed himself a few years ago!

nah that’s leslie cheung!

what’s the difference between the two?

one’s gay and one isn’t

but they look the same

and one’s dead (the gay one)

wasn’t one of them a movie star cuz he looked like Jackie Chan, and took jackie chan-like comedy roles?

leslie the gay dude has been in loads of movies but not kung fuey ones (being gay and that)

jacky is mostly singing but also been in some films

Leslie Cheung was in A Better Tomorrow, what are you talking about?

And Ashes of Time. So you were kidding, right?

ok he was in ashes of time. and held some guns in a better tomorrow. hardly jackie chan is it?

50 points to laurel for her hk film knowledge

And Once a Thief, and Better Tomorrow II and III and The Bride with White Hair (which I don’t know, I just got it from wikipedia) and probably lots of others. Hush.

I mean, about TL not being in kung fu-y movies. :)

i could have phrased it better i guess—how about not particularly/specifically renowned for being a kung fuey actor in his acting career?

Haha, but I am guilty of thinking of him specifically that way because I usually see him in movies with either Chow Yun Fat or Maggie Cheung. So this is really just a matter of perception.

a kung fuey actor

thus my specification of “jackie chan-like comedy roles”, i.e. the funny bits, not nec. the stunty bits

in any case i shouldn’t have really mentioned kung fu at all it’s just that jackie chan reminded me of it (oddly enough), the point was that i don’t think his acting career started because he was a jackie chan lookalike! The kind of films they’re in are so different!

XPOST

but yeah he’s been in comedy films!

now you two have made me want to watch all these films

I saw a dragon in entertaining the customers in a Chinese restaurant the other day. A small child was having none of it.