The Auspicious 2018, Why; and how “Kia Su” it can be for the Cantonese Speaking Community

littlenewthings (67)in #teammalaysia • 7 years ago

Ah, the 2018, the year of the Auspicious Year, the year of opportunities!

Don’t get me wrong (looking at the title I have chosen to put up), this post is not bashing any particular race or Cantonese speaking individual, this is a post that I know, even in Malaysia, commercial sector will take hold on the very idea of it because of its BOUNTIFUL significants that can bring so much Ong (blessings in Hokkien) for those who chose to embrace it.

Chinese people always love to pun words, especially numbers when you come to the Cantonese speaking community. I personally am not Cantonese, but I actually grew up in a Cantonese speaking environment where most of my friends just love its dialect, thanks to the Hong Kong TVB series that flooded back in the 1980s and colour TVs were created.
So how do I find this year, 2018, can be so auspicious?

I actually just noticed this morning after realising one of my colleagues will be leaving the company for greener pastures at the end of February.

And since it is the end of February, and there is no leap year, it becomes Feb 28,2018

Which means 28.2.2018

For Chinese community, this is a very Ong number! Usually Chinese Malaysians will pay extra for house numbers, car plate numbers and even a specific floors for this number!

(There is another 2 more numbers that are significant to the Chinese community too, but they are not important for this string of numbers)

It is only obviously Ong because it is translated into Cantonese. Let me explain.

For 2018, in Cantonese, it is pronounced as “yee leng yat bat”

With a slight slang change, where 8 is loved to be punned as “fat” in Cantonese, it will be punned into

”Yee Leng Yat Fat”

In Cantonese “yee” means easy, “leng” means take, “yat” is one, “fat” is prosperous
So if you say it in a whole sentence, it is “easy to take and it will definitely prosperous!”

So for Steemit, in 2018, take hold on this auspicious year and let’s work hard to achieve that because this is definitely a blessed year! Especially for the Chinese community!

For the Christians, duh, Numbers 6:24-26 and Romans 8:31 holds dear to us all the time as specially those who are born again in Christ.

And for my colleague on the last day of February, saying good bye to my company and venturing to new greener pastures (we wish her all the best) it should be very ong for her to complete one career and proceed to the next on this auspicious day!

And I am pretty sure, 28.2.2018 or 28.8.2018 or 28.12.2018 is probably going to be the wedding day target or business roll out for many Chinese community of any country! Haha!