Yao Ming and LeBron James Olympic Coke commercial

I am a big fan of basketball and have been following the 2007 - 2008 NBA season. I had seen almost all of the games involving the Boston Celtics (yes, I am a big fan of the Celtics) through the NBA TV and the Internet. The final outcome of the season was that the Celtics won the NBA Championship (YES, finally after almost 20 years of not winning).

I was at the Yahoo sports checking out the latest news in NBA and came upon an article with an interesting video involving LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers) and Yao Ming (Huston Rockets) in a Coke commerical.

The video shows Yao Ming along with a fire-breathing dragon and three kung-fu pandas (these pandas have no relationship with Po in the movie “Kung-Fu Pandas”) fights LeBron James along with a lasso throwing cawboy and 3 mean looking bears. The winner of the fight gets . . . . . a Coke.



Check out LeBron James fights Yao Ming for a bottle of Coca Cola:

July 22, 2008 | Filed Under Ramblings | 3 Comments 

Lucky Numbers


Chinese has a strong fascination with numbers. If your birthday or any other important events like marriage contains any number that have 8, 9, 3, or even 5 then you are considered to have a very auspicious date. So if you are planning to get marry on this year of 2008 then this is a very good year for you especailly if you  marry on August 8, 2008 ( 8-8-2008). That date, as you can see, have three 8’s. The number 3 (3 is believed to mean good health) is a great number and 8 (8 is believed to bring good fortune) is even better.

You might have difficulty booking a place to hold your wedding celebration if you live in an area with large Chinese population. In Beijing alone, there were more then 9,000 couples registered to wed on August 8, 2008. Almost all of the restaurants in New York City Chinatown are booked to hold wedding banquet.

As most of you know, the Olympics starts on August 8, 2008 but do you know that the start time is exactly at 8:08:08 China standard time. That is a lot of eights.

Beijing Olympic organizers hope that starting the Olympics’ opening ceremony at 8:08:08 p.m. on 8-8-2008 will help smooth the way for the games, which have been troubled by human rights concerns, organizational hiccups and natural disasters elsewhere in China. They also hope by starting the game on this date will bring them luck and fortune in terms of getting gold medals and success in holding the game.

While Western believes in number have their roots in religious traditions, the Chinese believe whether a number is lucky or not is determined by their homonyms.

Check out Wikipedia for a list of lucky and unlucky numbers and what they mean.

July 18, 2008 | Filed Under Ramblings | 4 Comments 

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