Here’s wishing you and yours a prosperous new year, as we see the year of the rabbit come to a close and Enter The (year of the) Dragon. As one would expect from a year based on a popular Bruce Lee film, it appears a if to begin in a troubled nature, and hopefully we can solve all the problems an tie up lose ends before the end credits start to roll.
As the year of the Rabbit closes, I am happy to see that one f my predictions proved true. Las year around this time I was pontificating that the year of the Rabbit would bring many births, my logic being that Chinese people and Rabbits have a strong common bond: they’re great at multiplication. My local friends and colleagues have informed me that the year of the Dragon will be very similar in that respect. It seems that many Chinese mothers (read as Tiger moms, though not necessarily born in the year of the Tiger) have a strong desire to give birth to Dragons.
I do not think this want trickles far beyond the Chinese heritage. Western mothers would certainly think otherwise. With the trauma of Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby still poignant for mothers-to-be, I think that the idea of birthing a Dragon would certainly fall under the category of difficult birth. My friend Lisa was anxious to get her little one exited edited 2012, I can only assume for the reason of avoiding even the mistaken chance of the rabbit-like child mistaking itself for a Dragon, and barreling out wings all a-flail, singeing the doctor’s eyebrows and send the wet nurse running helter-skelter in search for a larger cage to place the infant.
The positive side, I can assume – as I am want to, in birthing a Dragon this year comes from the wealth of new media to support these new parents. If my pre-trip forays into Rotten Tomatoes list of top movies of 2011 has anything to contribute, How to Train Your Dragon received extremely high reviews. I’m not acquainted with the work, in any biblical sense of the term, so I won’t sit here telling you how useful it will be. You Tiger-Moms-of-Dragons-To-Be (Tiger-Moms-To-Be-of-Dragons? Tiger Mom-To-Be of Dragons-To-Be?) will have this added bonus in the arsenal of stripes and claws to raise the new cub well.
(Dragon-cub or Dragon-pup … I need a Nerd to seriously help me out with this nomenclature: expert Nerds, please proudly provide clarification in the comments section.)
Anyhow, as we like to say for each ad every Chinese New Year (herein referred to as CNY), a.k.a. Lunar New Year, a.k.a. Spring Festival, a.k.a. extended holiday weekend – depending on who you talk to, have a Happy and Prosperous New Year!
And for you Tiger mothers (not to be confused with Cougar mothers, Demi Moore) desiring Dragon’s: you better GET ON IT and start conceiving.
Time’s running out! Act Now! While Supplies Last!
