Happy Chinese New Year of Pig

Many of my friends here belong to the year of pig eventhough most of them didn't aware that it's their year. However, all of them are not happy with that. I was always so happy when it's my year. I felt that I'd be extremely lucky in that year even though the elders would say that when it's your year, you'd be extremely unlucky and you need to go to the temple to do something to get rid of your unlucky. Well, but so far, I thought last year was quite nice for me.

When I told my Pig Friends that it's their year. At first, they asked what year is it, when I said they're the year of Pig, none of them were happy. "Why I'm the year of Pig?" When I had to spend a long time explaim all the story about the 12 animals haveing a contast, whenevery you're 12,24,36... it's your year, etc. Then they'd ask other people's year. One of a 'short' guy's the year of Tiger. Other guys said 'No way! how come he's the year of Tiger!?" I guess they still can't understand why there's an animal every year. My friends also wondering when this starts. Well, neither do I know when this starts, so I just said thousands and thousands years ago. Chinese culture, you know started from thousands and thousands years ago. And then my friends wondered why there's no year of a fruit. And when I told them our manager's the year of dragon, they said that he might be the year of watermelon. I don't know why they came up with 'watermelon' instead of other kinds of fruit. And even though I like watermelon, 'Year of Watermelon' sounds silly. So, I guess I'll take this year as the year of watermelon.

Happy Chinese New Year- the Year of Watermelon to everyone.