An Extra Day of Lantern …

Here's what my horoscope for Wednesday the 13th says:

“You will be feeling especially loved by your friends today, because everyone in your life is in a very demonstrative phase. From sweet emails and thoughtful notes to gushing speeches, the folks around you are really interested in letting you know how they feel about you.”

(A side thought on daily horoscope: how are we supposed to know which time zone we should use? The time zone of the astrologers or ours? Does it make a difference? What kind of calendar? Does it depend on locations? Uhmm …)

So, the day is over in this part of the world (EST) and the only “demonstrative action” I got came from my friend who gave me a very hard time for missing that one lantern picture (and something about apple candy as a comparison — I failed to see the similarities .. LOL). She said she felt cheated .. but I know deep down inside, she just wanted me to have a complete picture collection of all of the lanterns and she didn't want me to ever be disappointed for missing just 1 picture. Okay, so I made that reason up … talk about tough love, huh? HAHAHA!
Technically, I did not say that I would put 28 pictures for ALL 28 lantern exhibits. I said something like “for the next 14 days, 2 things at a time” .. hmm, okay, so 14 times 2 is 28 .. but I can't count (primary school seemed like centuries ago! LOL! ).

Anyway, to complete my collection, I asked a couple of my friends to see if they had pics of the Chinese Lions Chasing the Spinning Ball .. I would've asked for another pic (another version/perspective/etc) from my other friend if she hadn't been very busy (gosh, I miss her so much!). But, here they are:

Courtesy of SY:


Courtesy of MLF:




To both: Neat pics! Thank you!
And MLF: I agree that they do look more like dogs instead of lions .. hahaha.

P.S. I lied .. I also got a few thoughtful notes … a very nice way to end the day ..