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Horses won’t do well in 2008

One very Chinesey thing about the kangaroo is that he loves reading Chinese astrological predictions. He even got his mum into it, so back from Singapore last Saturday, he announced, “Babe, I got a pressie for you!”

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This is what he got me. Plus, the year of the rat for himself, and the year of the sheep for his mum.

This lovely book by Lilian and Jennifer Too says 2008 will be a horrible year for horses. We will do badly in business, love, health and education.

Apparently, the horse and the rat are doomed to fail as their ambitions are mismatched and are not natural allies. But you know, I went through all the signs and the horse is definitely unlucky in love this year — she quarrels with all the animals and has no one. Maybe the monkey who is loving and kind but even then the horse will try the patience of such an ardent lover.

I might as well commit suicide. Alas, the book doesn’t completely doom the horse to a bottomless hell. The solutions to the horse’s woes are to be frugal (“Save money now, because if you think you can spend today and have more next month, you are very wrong” — I kid you not), patient, quiet (the horse picks fights with everyone and ends up very unpopular, particularly in the office), and to eat healthy, plus carry a number of pendants to ward off evil. The months of June and July are happy reprieves from the whole year of gloom.

What the f$%%&, right? The kangaroo will have an excellent year, like rats always do because they are number one in the zodiac chain. We concluded that we will only believe in Chinesey bullshit if it’s good news.

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