Saturday, January 24, 2009

What Animal Are You??…

I believe most of you already know “what animal you all are” based on the Chinese Lunar Calendar and most of my friends here are Dragons, which will be “coming” in the year 2012 (when we are about 36 years old!!).

Anyway, it’s really interesting to know about the animals and the meaning behind it.. there’s a lot of them out there. Here is one I found from www.fortune-cookies.co.uk

The Animals of the Chinese Year
Chinese years are named after one of twelve animals. People born in the appropriate year are said to have the personality of the animal:

Rats: are cheerful, charming and welcome everywhere
Oxen: are hardworking and patient
Tigers: have a forceful personality and are adventurous and confident
Rabbits: are home lovers, peaceable and sociable
Dragons: have strong personalities, love their freedom and hate routine
Snakes: are sensitive with a strong sense of responsibility
Horses: are hardworking, admirable and ambitious
Rams: are gentle, caring and achieve what they want by kindness
Monkeys: are charming, cheeky and clever
Roosters: are faithful to family and friends
Dogs: are loyal and caring with a feerless streak
Pigs: are peace loving, trusting and strong

Rat   1924 1936 1948 1960 1972 1984 1996
Ox   1925 1937 1949 1961 1973 1985 1997 2009
Tiger   1926 1938 1950 1962 1974 1986 1998
Rabbit   1927 1939 1951 1963 1975 1987 1999
Dragon   1928 1940 1952 1964 1976 1988 2000
Snake   1929 1941 1953 1965 1977 1989 2001
Horse   1930 1942 1954 1966 1978 1990 2002
Ram   1931 1943 1955 1967 1979 1991 2003
Monkey   1932 1944 1956 1968 1980 1992 2004
Rooster   1933 1945 1957 1969 1981 1993 2005
Dog   1934 1946 1958 1970 1982 1994 2006
Pig   1935 1947 1959 1971 1983 1995 2007

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Way to go Year of the Ox !!

chinese-ox

(picture from http://braxana.livejournal.com/)

 

Would you like to know about the stories of how the animals are named according to the years and which one is the first? there’s a lot out there and here is one of them.. read..

Cheerio everyone…

6 comments:

carolchs said...

i always love to watch the cartoon about how these animals get their places in the heavenly chart during CNY...

im a horse!

MJ Diaries said...

Hmm....kalau kira rumah aku boleh buat zoo sudah..
Ada rabbit, dragon, snake, monkey and a dog! Can you imagine how my family looks like? Adeh deh deh...

Linachu said...

Hi Hombidai!
Nice to bump into you today.. but sama2 pun busy mengejar anak..hehe..
I agree on the traits of the dragon - love freedom, hate routine..tat's certainly me!

rin-chan 린- 찬 said...

me love freedom too :-)

cute juga gambar ox ko tu hehe..

Hombidai said...

Hi everyone... hope you all have great holidays...

Linachu, nice to see you all too... yes, walaupun bawa tu baby stroller kunun tapi itu JJ mau turun saja.. i end up just pushing empty stroller and/or main kejar-kejar.. luckily not many people there kan..

cheerio everyone... an yes Dragons hate routines!!! that's why I quit my old job though it was peace and quite there..

The Dusun Aroma said...

I want to say that I don't believe Chinese's Horoscope.. but I have always been fascinated by it.. and ada kesan pengaruh juga kali (mimang ada) jemm!! :P

I guess that's a good short cut explanation for my continuous career change. I hate routine and I hate undercontroll :P

Well I'm the Dragon and with me always a little Angel, hence my nick DA. Now you Know Topinai :D