Gung Hoy Fat Choy!
Or for the rest of you round-eyed barbarians: Happy Chinese New Year, the Year of the (Red) Dog (seriously), the year 4703 (or possibly 4704) in the Chinese Lunar Calendar.
Kind of puts our whole Gregorian/Julian thing in perspective doesn’t it?
The Jewish calendar says it’s 5766 while the Hindus modestly put us at 5107.
The Muslims play it very conservatively and call it 1426.
The Buddhists realize that time is an illusion (lunchtime doubly so) and simply have a big water fight every April 14 and 15. One more reason you usually see the Buddha smiling.
Anyway, back to our Chinese brethren: Happy New Year! Now start hacking our search engines, overthrow your evil totalitarian masters and cash in!
No lie, thanks to our huge trade imbalance and insane “borrow and spend” Reagan-Bush policies you guys own most our country right now.
Just do me a favor and be sure to put all the neo-cons to work in the rice paddies.
