This will begin on February 1 this year, and end two weeks later with the Spring Lantern Festival.
Personally I love the Lantern Festival, because I basically grew up with it in a part of the world full of Hokkien and Cantonese refugees from Mao.
This year coming up is in a sense a particularly rare year because it relates to the 'black water tiger.' There are such things as black tiger in real life but they are incredibly rare.
Of course, the internet is full of declarations about what this year will bring and what the nature of the water tiger is and so on.
'Water...' and 'big cat..' Hmn.
Anyway. Forget about all of that. Just make sure you do those things that will bring you good fortune all the coming year!
Eat fish.
Give 'red packets' to your favorite Chinese restaurant.
Wear red and gold.
Watch Cantonese movies.Eat fish for CNY.
Open fortune cookies.
...Drink kumquat wine.
Man, the things I give away for free in here.
You never saw it though, did you?
I guarantee you absolutely no one got the 'big one' just handed out here.
Well, maybe by now a few will suspect this thing or that, and you might be right too, but I guarantee you won't know why.
'The master, when looked for, cannot be seen, when searched for, cannot be found. He is able to walk through walls and step across thin rice paper without leaving a trace.'
You think that's just lines from a flick though, right?
Eh, FBI? Waddya think?
Just lines? From a movie script?
Keep your eyes glued on these pages, boys and girls, as the Man from Wu, leaving in the early morning, sets out for Shu. in the early Dawn mists, heart like ice. If they ask of me at Lu, say that he has left for the mountains at Tien Shan Pai.
Our intrepid leader - a dancing Wu Li master?
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No dancing. Definitely no dancing. Johnny can't dance. Might have to post up pics of the guys who taught me - not allowed to post of me though. Not just yet.
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