Happy Valentine's, and Happy Chinese New Year!

[ante_luce]

Have an early post for the two occasions ^_^





May you have a good Valentine's. Bluestreak is ready, willing and able to render assistance if needed.



And Happy Chinese New Year ^_^ It's the Year of the Tiger according to the Chinese zodiac, so have some tigers with the TF. Swerve, being red and gold (auspicious colours for Chinese New Year) gets picture duty while the rest of the bitties plot to raid the candy pile outside my room. This wouldn't be so much of a problem, only I now have about twenty-one of the little bots running about my shelves 0_0;; Wish me luck.


Also, I was tagged a while back by katsuko.



1. I was born in the Year of the Tiger >:3 Hence my having tiger plushies and figures readily available for a photo op.

2. A coworker has labelled me Wikipedia-head because I somehow remember a lot of random facts that I read once somewhere, none of them particularly useful. But for some reason, I can't remember the steps of a protocol I use regularly.

3. I am a bit of a packrat. Or maybe I'm part magpie. I collect odd things for no other reason than that I think they look interesting (or shiny).

4. When bored, I leave trails of origami cranes in my wake. There are still cranes in my honours lab back in my uni.

5. I read a lot, but in the bookstore, I will usually skim the first few chapters of a book, then read the last few. That way, if I don't like the book enough to bring it home, at least I know how it ends. I even do this with books I end up hating a few pages in, to my chagrin.

6. I use words like chagrin, vexed and esotoric in regular conversation.

7. I don't know if it's because wearing a bright colour makes me easy to target or if seeing bright colours makes a person more 'aggressive' or if I just feel like I'm more visible and thus more self conscious and thus more prone to being uncoordinated and accident prone, but the few times I've wandered out of the safety of my room (I didn't make it out of the house, even) in a red shirt, something less than stellar has happened to me. Except for the recent movie, I don't even watch Star Trek. Chinese New Year, with the traditional demand that I wear something red at least for the first day, is going to be interesting.

Comments

[niyazi-a.livejournal.com]

Apparently in China, if it's your birth animal year, you MUST carry a piece of jade with you at all times. My mom was there in her year (Horse) and the group of people she was with made sure she had jade before...oh...like stepping on the plane.

Good excuse to get yourself some pretty jade jewelry at least? ^_^

[ante-luce.livejournal.com]

Huh, I hadn't known that. A colleague from China told me I had to carry or wear something red with me at all times because of the birth animal thing. Given my track record with that colour, the hairclip I use at work will have to suffice to appease her ^_^;; But the excuse to get something shiny is tempting ;P

[wicked3659.livejournal.com]

Oh I do origami thing, mine is turtles and lilies dotted where ever I go.

Your tigers and bluestreak are very cute! :)

[ante-luce.livejournal.com]

I used to make frogs too, but I'm a little rusty with them so cranes it is usually ^_^

Thanks :3

[bluebirdsoaring.livejournal.com]

I so love your Valentine Bluestreak...all fluffy love =)

And Happy Year of the Tiger!

And I love that you use such fun words...me too

[ante-luce.livejournal.com]

Thank you ^_^

Fun words are fun :P

[thepheonixqueen.livejournal.com]

Your Cupid Bluestreak is so cute and fluffly! Can I borrow him? Forget the arrow I'll take him as a Valentine!

Happy New Year from a fellow Tiger!

p.s. big words are fun, except i keep having to exlain what the heck i just said to the people i work with.

[ante-luce.livejournal.com]

Borrow away ^_^ I don't think he minds.

I has a lexis and am not afraid to use it :P

[crimsonseastorm.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwww cupid!bluestreak is so cute!!!!

And I do the same thing to books XDD and I read enough that I've managed to find a plethora of fun words to use XD

[ante-luce.livejournal.com]

Thanks :3

Reading is usually where I find my words too ^_^

[nekohitori.livejournal.com]

I'mma have to borrow Bluestreak real quick. I promise I'll return him.

And yay for Year of the Tiger, or as I like to think it, the best zodiac sign. ^_^

[ante-luce.livejournal.com]

A wonderful thing is a Tigger;
A Tigger's a wonderful thing.
Their tops are made out of rubber,
their bottoms are made out of spring
They're bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy,
fun, fun, fun, fun, fun,
The most wonderful thing
about Tiggers is:
I'm not the only one!

>:3

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

[bookworm-faith.livejournal.com]

Aw Cupid!Bluestreak is adorable (and, as we've seen, highly effective XD) Red is bad luck for you? Wow...that's...that's gonna be interesting this week XD

Re: Gong Xi Fa Cai!

[ante-luce.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm hoping to get away with just red detailing and maybe a red print -_-;;

[gundamangel.livejournal.com]

woot woot! Year of the Tiger!! We are awesome.

[ante-luce.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes we are =^_^=