happy chinese new year everyone!!!!! i know how to say it in chinese but i don't how to write it, so just imagine me in my best madam sin clothes saying it in perfect mandarin.
this is the year of the water sheep (or ram, as it is also called) it's 4071 in the chinese lunar calendar. 2002 was the year of the horse, whose main elements were fire and water, signifying great potential for conflict and unrest. this year's sheep element are water and earth, also conflicting but less destructive. we hope we hope we hope... this is joni's year, since she'll be turning 60 in november. as 60 is a multiple of 12, then joni was born in the year of the sheep. quite a strange combination. a scorpion and a sheep. the secrets of death and sex mixed with the frugality and the sentimentalism of the sheep. but then who can figure joni out? to all of you sheep (or rams) on the list, this is your time in the limelight in the 12-year cycle. be prosperous and happy. don't be too cruel to poor little rats like me! i promise i won't steal your lovers away from you and i won't get to the bargain basements before you! (what liars rats are!) in any case, lots of red envelopes with money for everybody! wallyK
