8 August 2008 No Comment

If you aren’t aware, today is a lucky and prosperous day for many. It’s basically 7-7-7 revisited but to a greater extreme. The Chinese consider the number 8 to stand for prosperity. In fact, if you know anyone who is a traditional chinese, you would expect that they would try to get the number 8 in anything that they own. Just this past month, my dad went to the automobile registry and requested that he get to choose his license plate just so he could get a number eight in it. Ha! But he had just missed it because someone else had grabbed it (must have been asian :P).

In fact, even the Summer Olympic Games are starting exactly eight minutes after the eighth hour on the eight day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the 21st Century. Goodness that’s a lot of 8’s.

The picture above was taken at the Hokkien Association building in Klang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Aug 8/08 where 238 newly wed couples tied the knot. In fact, there are numerous weddings taking place where the couples are not asian, yet believe that indeed ‘8′ is their lucky number.