Showing posts with label 2011 Year of the Rabbit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2011 Year of the Rabbit. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Chinese New Year 2011 Year of the Rabbit Too Confusing !

Hey, it's New Year's Eve, again, for me. So, I'm posting this photo of my Rabbit Girls from the New Year's Eve party we had a month ago because I'm not sure they'll be out partying again tonight.

I would have called them Bunny Girls but, I think that guy, Hugh, from some girlie magazine back in the USA might get some of his thugs or daughter to come after me. I don't want any lawsuits or anything like that. A guy with all the money he makes could probably have me whacked.

This Year of the Rabbit, when you research it online is pretty confusing. I try and use the best sources because I don't want to be like some of the major newspapers and give people stuff that ain't exactly the truth.

There are plenty of sites you can find if you just use GOOGLE but, I think if Confucius was still alive, even he'd be confused with some of the stuff you find on our illustrious world wide web.

If you were born in a Year of the Rabbit THE CHINESE CULTURE CENTER can tell you what kind of person that means you are. If you happen to be a snake, pig, rat, a tiger, or any of the other 12 animals in the Chinese Zodiac, you can go there, too. Just flip through the pages and they'll tell you what kind of animal you are, if you really believe in that sort of stuff. Hah !

Whenever possible, I like to show both sides of the story. So, I did some research on the Western Zodiac Signs, too. I know lots of people follow that stuff, daily, in the same major newspapers that'll tell you what Hugh boy's latest squeeze might be doing after she scratches another bunny's eyes out.

Sort of an official-looking site for the 12 Signs of the Zodiac  (I'm not maikng this stuff up, either) is UNIVERSAL PSYCHIC GUILD.  I'm pretty sure some of the US Presidents wives have had connections with those folks. They even have an official seal on their page. Hah !

Now, one time, I made the mistake of confusing Astrology with Astronomy. And I got a good whoopin' for that. The Astrology people, they follow the stars, alright. What's the difference between the two?  Well, let's just say it's bigger than the difference between real turf and astroturf. Only one of them is real turf, OK?

Astronomy is science. The people who do Astronomy are real scientists. If you want to know what the planets and stars are up to, do like I do, check this site CosmoBC everyday.

There was a big flap when the Astronomy guys told the Astrology gals that all the planets and stars were shifting, awhile back. I didn't follow it because I really don't worry about what Zodiac sign I was born under. I just worry about important stuff like, what's for lunch or supper.

Well, it seems the shift in the heavens might cause problems with the fortune telling crowd. Imagine the horror if you were reading your Virgo Horoscope and doing really well and all of a sudden, you wake up one day and you're a Capricorn.

Heck, if you really practice that stuff, it may be grounds for a divorce. Or, at least an annulment. Who wants to be married to a goat ?

If you want more information on how they straightened that disaster out and kept all the fortune tellers from loosing their syndicated newspaper jobs, you'll just have to Google it yourself. I'm hungry.

Everday, about this time, I go and take a peek at this ITALIAN FOOD AND RECIPE website.
Irish as I may be, I love Italian food. But, I don't like it at restaurants. I like to do my own Italian cooking. So, I steal ideas from this guy Vincent Scordo. Vinny, sounds good to me. That's Italian.

Oh yeah, Vinny, I don't actually steal the recipes. I just borrow ideas. Don't whack me, OK ?

Just like the Astronomers and the Astrologers, though we have some sort of disconnect between the Chinese and the Italians. It seems Marco Polo and the world's chefs and even the historians disagree on who invented spaghetti and pasta.

This gets really good. While I'm researching this, my stomach is growling and I'm drooling all over the keyboards. Again, there is way too much information online. I've sorted it all out for you, though. I'll give you the best source of information I can find.

Get this. Marco Polo was on his deathbed  (The Origin of Pasta) and a priest tries to get the correct information out of him.  Marco Polo says, "I have not told the half of what I saw and did".
Then, I guess he croaked because they don't say anymore. They shoulda waterboarded him.

I got all this information from a source funded by the Government of Canada The Italian Canadian Community and I know, they don't lie. If they did the Canadian Mounted Police would get them.

So, if you were wondering, what got me from Chinese New Year 2011 Year of the Rabbit, through fortune telling and into spaghetti, I have a plan. I'm going to ask the Rabbit Girls if they'd like to get rich. They could be syndicated in the Eastern and Western world newspapers and online.

There's got to be at least a dozen different kinds of pasta. I'll ask them if they'd like to be Fortune Telling Bunnies. We'll figure out a way to convince people they were born under a certain sign of pasta. Yup.  Pastronomy, we'll call it. Or would that be too confusing? Pastrology? Nah, sounds fake, to me.




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Saturday, January 8, 2011

2011 The Year of The Party Rabbits: Photo Essay

My Place was invaded by Party Rabbits last night. The people of Okinawa, Japan are taking this Year of the Rabbit seriously. I didn't get out of the office with my camera before they showed up.  In case you haven't heard, my office is in a Karaoke Bar. I usually escape before the place opens on weekends. The name of the place is My Place. Here are the photos in the order I shot them.



The Party Animal Rabbit. The girl who started it all, the instant she stepped through the door.


The Attack Rabbit.  There's one in every crowd.  This guy had to be the ferocious animal rabbit.


The Peace Rabbit. Japanese girls are wired to give the peace sign whenever they see a camera.


The Look at Me, I'm a Cute Little Bunny Wabbit Rabbit struck a pose with her rabbit feet curled.



Last, but not least, was the "I Should be a Professional Model Someday Rabbit. Dontcha think ?"

There were other crazy rabbit photos taken last night but authorization was not given by The Boss Rabbit to have her photo posted.

And the Rabbit With The Three Day Hangover won't appear, either because I have an important mission to accomplish today. 

It's what you might call, "A grab the cameras, tripod, backpack, and get outa town before the Boss Rabbit wakes up kinda day".

This Year of the Rabbit is really catching on. Have you noticed any Party Rabbits invading your town, yet?


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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Year of the Rabbit 2011 (Photo) Okinawa: An Insider's Tip


Here it is, New Years Eve, where I'm at anyway. I guarantee in the next few days I'll get tons of emails wishing me a Happy New Year. I know because I do the same thing as soon as Christmas is over. I start telling everybody to have a Happy and Prosperous New Year, right on through the first week of January. We all do it and it's a good thing. It sure beats talking about the weather.

The Year of the Rabbit is 2011 so, I dug up this photo that I shot back in 2007 to show you what a rabbit looks like in the wild, at night, with camera flash. That's if you don't want to use red-eye reduction on your camera or in editing afterwards. Some people I know will have eyes like this when the wake up New Years Day after a night of celebrating. In Okinawa, we have New Years twice!

The Western, Gregorian, Christian, whatever you want to call it, calendar that a lot of the rest of the world uses, is used in Japan, too. Even in Okinawa we have the Western calendar and celebrate the New Year like folks in the western world. The New Year will start January 1st and people will be popping champagne bottles, kissing strangers on the lips and singing Auld Lang Syne in Japanese in my bar tonight. And they'll be running around with hangovers for the next three days visiting temples to try and have good luck in the Year of the Rabbit, 2011.

It's good for business. People are already buying rabbit jewelry, bunny footed pajamas and slippers and probably wedding gowns with rabbits sewed on them. Some of them even buy pet rabbits for their kids. Then, when they get tired of abusing them, turn them loose, like the one in the photo above. That's no wild rabbit. He's a rabbit turned loose in the wild; a feral rabbit, I guess.

Here's a tip from an old Insider. According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2010 the Year of the Tiger, doesn't end December 31st 2010. The Year of the Rabbit starts on February 3, 2011.  That'd make New Years Eve the 2d of February according to my calculations.

Not one to put a damper on everyone's holiday celabrations I'm going to dig up that Auld Lang Syne music, buy some bottles of champagne and wash the wine glasses for tonight.

What the heck, I may as well trim the beard, get all spruced up and wear my Sunday best for the New Years Party. Even if some good lookin' stranger-gal doesn't run up and kiss me on the lips, it could be my dressed rehersal for the 2011 Year of the Rabbit New Years Eve Party in February!

WHEREVER IN THE WORLD YOU ARE PLEASE DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE.  AND, I WISH YOU AND YOURS A SAFE, HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR !



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