Kong Hei Fa Xiao

i don't usually post anything for the chinese new year celebration but this year, i've got several reasons to do so. well, my previous boss is chinese (or atleast until they changed ownership). we talked a lot about the chinese new year during the time we were decorating lots of chinese artsyness for the up coming occassion. i learned more about it, therefore, i'm more enthusiastic about it. i didn't even know tikoy is the chinese new year cake. i just thought it was just some random dessert invented by the chinese. we ate it all the time back in the philippines. when i asked my boss what tikoy was, i didn't tell her what we called it. i described to her (because i had a feeling we filipinos have altered it's name somehow). she said something very long and inaudible to me i wasn't able to understand it. so, i told her that it sounds way different from how we call it. she said said, "aaah!" *hahaha..* she told me that in other parts of china, it is called ti kah; it makes so much more sense now.

and then, i found out that is is THE YEAR OF THE RAT. my year (and my other fellow rats, of course)!! haha. i don't usually believe in horoscopes but just the fact that i've known i'm a "rat" and that the special year therefore associates to me is enough reason for me to be giddy about it. i mean, don't get me wrong, i read horoscopes all the time. i just don't take it seriously, i just read it for the heck of it. it doesn't mean i follow the stars' constellation and chart my whole life around it. it's ironic though, cuz i tried to google a rat sign photo and i stumbled upon this *click it*. it pretty much screams me.. i am a pack-rat.. i am what the card described. creepy.

anyway, i initially wanted to go to a chinese parade today because we touched that subject too. who wouldn't? chinese new years are never complete without the parade. i remember watching it in the streets of philippines (forgot where) when i was little. i loved the dragon dances.. so much. BUT, i completely forgot all about it. it's fairly near here considering it's just in the san bernardino valley. it's a weekday though and i have lots of errands to run for my mom (&dad) and i need to get some personal shiz done.

so yeah, with that said. i'm out. i haven't even eaten breakfast yet and it's already 10:26am. i'll be back later.