Month of August, 8/8/2010

Ola,

Selamat bersua dalam bulan LAPAN heheh..

I noticed that for the past few post in me blog is in English or BM. Can I write in Iban? My own language hee.. tp..am sure susah la for others to understand.

Bulan lapan is what we Iban normally say la.

Talk about bulan 8.. no. 8 itself is famous as a Lucky number among Chinese people.

In my life, no. 8 is always around me. Well, my name has 8 alphabets, my college I.D no was 8800, me car no is 8850.. hee.. coincidence? Maybe..

The word for "eight" sounds similar to the word which means "prosper" or "wealth". In regional dialects the words for "eight" and "fortune"

DID U KNOW??

• A telephone number with all digits being eights was sold for USD$270,723 in Chengdu, China.

• The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Beijing began on 8/8/08 at 8 seconds and 8 minutes past 8 pm (local time).

• A man in Hangzhou offered to sell his license plate reading A88888 for RMB 1.12 million (roughly USD164,000).

• The Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia has 88 Floors.

• Dragon Fish Industry in Singapore, a breeder of rare Asian Arowanas (which are "lucky fish" themselves, and, being a rare species, are required to be microchipped), makes sure to use numbers with plenty of eights in their microchip tag numbers, and appears to reserve particular numbers especially rich in eights and sixes (e.g. 702088880006688) for particularly valuable specimens.

• The value of eight could also be linked with Buddhism and the meaning of Lotus flower (eight petals).

• As part of grand opening promotions, a Commerce Bank branch in New York's Chinatown raffled off safety deposit box No. 888.

• An "auspicious" numbering system was adopted by the developers of 39 Conduit Road Hong Kong, where the top floor was "88" – Chinese for double fortune. It is already common in Hong Kong for ~4th floors not to exist; there is no requirement by the Buildings Department for numbering other than that it being "made in a logical order."A total of 43 intermediate floor numbers are omitted from 39 Conduit Road: those missing include 14, 24, 34, 64, all floors between 40 and 59; the floor number which follows 68 is 88. (Facts from Wikipedia)

XOXO,