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shall she sail seas
Vice Captain

PostPosted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:55 pm


.... all the way from Hong Kong!

I know a lot of you guys don't celebrate it, but it doesn't hurt to wear lots of gold and red and prance around going "moooo...." on a nice Sunday just for laughs. blaugh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ox_(zodiac)
PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 10:12 am


Get back to me when it is the year of the dog again. Maybe I'll get a break and someone would publish my works.

For that don't know people born in the year of the dog tend to be natural artists.

ArchWarrior


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Vice Captain

PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:18 pm


I joined the pan-asian club! xO
PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:34 pm


They always say I'm a rabbit because I was born in 1987. Like, the chart at a chinese restaurant just had the years on it. It didn't say that the first few days of january went with the previous year. But someone recently insisted to me that I'm whatever comes before rabbit because my birthday is in the beginning of january.

I think it isn't really a big deal and I'll just keep saying I'm a rabbit.

Prince Rilian


shall she sail seas
Vice Captain

PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:02 pm


Rilian Reilly Sharp
They always say I'm a rabbit because I was born in 1987. Like, the chart at a chinese restaurant just had the years on it. It didn't say that the first few days of january went with the previous year. But someone recently insisted to me that I'm whatever comes before rabbit because my birthday is in the beginning of january.

I think it isn't really a big deal and I'll just keep saying I'm a rabbit.

You're a Tiger. It's about as big of a deal as the western zodiac. lol Culturally, it's quite a big deal. You get fortune tellers predicting the future of your Chinese city of choice on television. gonk
PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:25 pm


NomNomNominal
Rilian Reilly Sharp
They always say I'm a rabbit because I was born in 1987. Like, the chart at a chinese restaurant just had the years on it. It didn't say that the first few days of january went with the previous year. But someone recently insisted to me that I'm whatever comes before rabbit because my birthday is in the beginning of january.

I think it isn't really a big deal and I'll just keep saying I'm a rabbit.

You're a Tiger.
I'm a rabbit. That's what all the charts told me. They only go by year.
Quote:
It's about as big of a deal as the western zodiac.
The what? Nevermind, I don't care. xp

Prince Rilian


shall she sail seas
Vice Captain

PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:46 pm


Rilian Reilly Sharp
NomNomNominal
Rilian Reilly Sharp
They always say I'm a rabbit because I was born in 1987. Like, the chart at a chinese restaurant just had the years on it. It didn't say that the first few days of january went with the previous year. But someone recently insisted to me that I'm whatever comes before rabbit because my birthday is in the beginning of january.

I think it isn't really a big deal and I'll just keep saying I'm a rabbit.

You're a Tiger.
I'm a rabbit. That's what all the charts told me. They only go by year.
Quote:
It's about as big of a deal as the western zodiac.
The what? Nevermind, I don't care. xp

They go by the year according to the lunar calendar. Either trust a Chinese with a Chinese upbringing on this or go look it up yourself. You're a Tiger.

Western zodiac: pisces, cancer, virgo, etc.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:55 pm


NomNomNominal
Rilian Reilly Sharp
NomNomNominal
Rilian Reilly Sharp
They always say I'm a rabbit because I was born in 1987. Like, the chart at a chinese restaurant just had the years on it. It didn't say that the first few days of january went with the previous year. But someone recently insisted to me that I'm whatever comes before rabbit because my birthday is in the beginning of january.

I think it isn't really a big deal and I'll just keep saying I'm a rabbit.

You're a Tiger.
I'm a rabbit. That's what all the charts told me. They only go by year.
Quote:
It's about as big of a deal as the western zodiac.
The what? Nevermind, I don't care. xp

They go by the year according to the lunar calendar. Either trust a Chinese with a Chinese upbringing on this or go look it up yourself. You're a Tiger.
The charts never said it was any other kind of calendar. I'm a rabbit. If it will make you happy, we can say I'm a rabbit in the zodiac-adapted-to-my-culture.

If it's by a lunar calendar, then why do the charts at chinese restaurants just have a year? Aren't lunar years shorter, meaning it would get further and further off every year? But they never say that. To figure out what everyone actually is, we'd have to go back to the beginning of time. Or the beginning of when they started using that calendar.

So the whole zodiac thing doesn't actually take 12 years. How long does it actually take? Maybe I can shatter my parents' worlds by telling them they're not actually both dragons.

Prince Rilian


shall she sail seas
Vice Captain

PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:21 pm


Rilian Reilly Sharp
NomNomNominal
Rilian Reilly Sharp
NomNomNominal
Rilian Reilly Sharp
They always say I'm a rabbit because I was born in 1987. Like, the chart at a chinese restaurant just had the years on it. It didn't say that the first few days of january went with the previous year. But someone recently insisted to me that I'm whatever comes before rabbit because my birthday is in the beginning of january.

I think it isn't really a big deal and I'll just keep saying I'm a rabbit.

You're a Tiger.
I'm a rabbit. That's what all the charts told me. They only go by year.
Quote:
It's about as big of a deal as the western zodiac.
The what? Nevermind, I don't care. xp

They go by the year according to the lunar calendar. Either trust a Chinese with a Chinese upbringing on this or go look it up yourself. You're a Tiger.
The charts never said it was any other kind of calendar. I'm a rabbit. If it will make you happy, we can say I'm a rabbit in the zodiac-adapted-to-my-culture.

If it's by a lunar calendar, then why do the charts at chinese restaurants just have a year? Aren't lunar years shorter, meaning it would get further and further off every year? But they never say that. To figure out what everyone actually is, we'd have to go back to the beginning of time. Or the beginning of when they started using that calendar.

So the whole zodiac thing doesn't actually take 12 years. How long does it actually take? Maybe I can shatter my parents' worlds by telling them they're not actually both dragons.

As I said, go look it up instead of relying on some stupid "Chinese" restaurant that probably serves chickenballs with sweet and sour sauce.

Yes, it's shorter. A year under lunar calendar is 12 lunar months. I'm unsure about time adjustments since my family isn't deeply religious, but it's likely that they exist since the lunar new year falls on a completely different date by our common western calendar every year.

Last time: look it up.
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