The Entrance Gate to
Sik Sik Yuen Sin Temple
Big, huh!!
No! Not so!
Not anymore!
It's a particularly nasty time in the history of this very important event. As I mentioned last year, what's happened is that despite this being OUR BUSINESS and no one elses, in 2010 those B**tards in Beijing got involved and thus this important annual ceremony has become all very political and nasty.
What this is about is that, since this Fortune Stick is right every year - it even picked the SARS crisis back in 2002, the tsunami, and the more recent 2009 finanical tsunami - everyone always trusts it and thus it's HUGE in Hong Kong's collective consciousness. However, this year we are currently at loggerheads with the Chinese Communist Party because we want them to JUST GO AWAY!!!
As I told you last year, those Beijing B**tards barged in and demanded the right to interpret the meaning of this Stick for us, and since CCP cadres are no Big Red Cap Sifus with the right pure motives to be unbiased and therefore correct ...
... and since their prediction for 2010 was "Hong Kong will obey the Communist Party of China" ...
... for the first time EVER our annual Fortune Stick caused no emotional response at all from the public. In fact, when the interpretation appeared in the newspapers, instead of the usual long and tortuous discussions on the possible meanings of each line and crazy interpretations of each nuance, no one mentioned it and just looked sour and angry as they immediately turned the page ...
... although it did result in the removal
of the HK flag from public buildings!
Notice this is just the Chinese Communist Flag
flying at the Central Library
and even the flagpost to hoist the HK Flag
has been removed;
an illegal act that deserves
a strong legal intervention.
... and everyone is just sick at the thought that this interference is likely to happen again this year.
It was incredibly stupid of Beijing. In fact, it was so far beyond stupid it made me wonder if the CCP had gone insane.
Obviously, since no one believes the CCP has anything remotely like good intentions, we all think another such nasty move from Beijing will actually kill off the importance of this event.
Yup, that's my prediction: more of this Mainland interference this year will indeed kill this very long, very old and Very-Hong Kong tradition. I hope they realise that!
Lillian Too, however, is still very trusted and so, without any faith and trust left in our Annual Fortune Stick, folks are turning to her books in numbers.
But the news from Lillian Too for 2011 is not good. She's predicting lots of Dangerous Yellows. Natural disasters! Political assassinations! Sabre-rattling! Lots more floods! (She predicted lots of floods for 2010 too.) If you'd like to read what she has to say, go HERE.
And the news for me personally is particularly bad since I'm facing down The Three Killings and have so many nasty Dangerous Yellows AND an Angry Great Lord Jupiter in my marriage ba gua, so I'm dreading The Rabbit. In fact, it's all so bad I doubt our marriage will survive, because I know that the last time I had such an afflicted chart, back in 1989, Keith and I ended up the year with such anger and animosity towards each other that it's a credit to both of us that we fundamentally liked each other enough to get over it.
Since we've been there before, we know what to expect - although in 1989 I wasn't also in line for Three Killings - and thus how bad it can get so we talked about this last night and shook hands, both agreeing that whatever happens to our marriage in 2011, on the night of the start of Year of the Dragon, we shall sit down together as friends, have a glass or two of wine and laugh about it.
However, several Chinese friends - and also non-Chinese friends - have suggested we get protective amulets to ward off all this inauspiciousness, and so - not entirely tongue-in-cheek - we are now hunting out "Allies and Special Friends" amulets while also researching more to discover what other auspicious ward-off-evils will help.
If you are also in this position, I should tell you that Lillian Too is the expert on this subject of what you need for whatever, and that she also sells the appropriate amulets on-line, but I should warn you that, since she takes all this very seriously, she only has high quality very expensive items, whereas you, like us, are most likely looking for cheap-cheap-cheap on the grounds that you're also only doing it because "it can't hurt"!
Thus, after an long and exhaustive hunt (OK, I lie! Anne told me about it.) I've just found a site that sells what you need cheaply. HERE.
So far, I've got myself these two:
"Allies and Special Friends"
The rooster on the right I picked up for pocket change at Wan Chai markets, while the Guardian Angel on the left is one made by the kiddies at Keith's school.
As you know, Keith's school is for mentally challenged children each with a range of other handicaps, but you may not know that it is also a Christian school, and so ... while they can't stop the kiddies believing in the most-Chinese idea of protective amulets, they can certainly change the nature of those amulets.
The different styles of amulets
the children make!
Angels, crosses and such!
And the kiddies have become so good at it, they even run workshops so other people can learn to make them as well.
Their amulet-making workshop!
And the other part of this thought is that since so many of these kids are profoundly handicapped having a skill like this will be a useful way of earning an income ...
... although I think this exquisite girl, almost six foot tall ...
Double-click to see how stunning she is!
... could easily make a fortune as a Super Model! An exceptionally low IQ surely wouldn't be a hindrance in that field, would it?
And this little darling, since she is actually 16 ...
One of the strange silent winsy-little "Indigo Children"
who appear to communicate through ESP!
Keith has taught so many he's got used to it
and is no longer stunned by their weird talents,
but they still shock me!
... could spend the rest of her life as a child actor!
Gosh, look at that! We're so far away from today's topic of Year of the Rabbit, I have no hope of finding my way back again, so I'll just leave it for today with the thought "Can we all just skip The Rabbit and go straight to The Dragon?"
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