Feb 7th, 2008 at 2:30PM: With the Year of the Rat starting today, it's not too late to attract good luck in order to make 2008 the best ever. Here are three ways. The first two I have tried.
Get a miniature orange tree- When we lived in Singapore we bought an orange tree every year right before Chinese New Year. The experience reminded me a bit like buying a live Christmas tree. Vendors selling these trees popped up all ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Year of the Rat: Bring some luck into your life
Feb 7th, 2008 at 2:30PM: With the Year of the Rat starting today, it's not too late to attract good luck in order to make 2008 the best ever. Here are three ways. The first two I have tried.
Get a miniature orange tree- When we lived in Singapore we bought an orange tree every year right before Chinese New Year. The experience reminded me a bit like buying a live Christmas tree. Vendors selling these trees popped up all ...Celebrate 2008 Year of the Rat with red rat-themed panties!
Feb 5th, 2008 at 11:40AM: Thanks to the Internet that allows us to travel and educate ourselves without getting out of our pajamas, today we can be privy into lifestyles and traditions of radically different cultures. And, when culture and superstitions blend, it's almost impossible not to have an an interestingly strange (if not explosively bizarre) outcome: believing that wearing red panties with rats on them will bring ...Visa problems? Maybe you should visit the Visa God
Jan 3rd, 2008 at 4:00PM: My fellow Indians have found a new way to secure visas to the West. Go to Hyderabad, take 11 rounds of the Chiklur Balaji Temple and voila, your visa will not be rejected. A temple that has been around for about 100 years hardly drew anyone until recently, thanks to the reincarnation of Hindu Lord Vishnu into "Visa God", it now draws 100,000 visitors a week. People go as early as 6am to avoid the ...Heights of superstitious India: Man marries dog
Nov 15th, 2007 at 12:00PM: If there is a country that often takes superstition to different heights, it's India. Throw salt behind you over your shoulder every morning to have a good day; bury your child's first tooth in cow-dung and throw it over your roof -- it will hasten the child's teething process; you can't marry unless your astrological charts match; about 300 million gallons of waste go into the Ganges every day, ...Hotels to Start Building 13th Floors?
Mar 8th, 2007 at 5:03PM: Thanks to the commonly-held superstition that 13 is an unlucky number, hotels have traditionally been built without a 13th floor (or, more accurately, mis-labeled their floors so that 12 is followed by 14). The practice is so widespread, in fact, that most travels can't recall ever seeing one. But, while most new hotels follow suit, the Starwood chain appears to be bucking the trend, recently ...Airline Logo Scares Superstitious Customers
Feb 22nd, 2007 at 1:15PM: People get a little freaked out by the number 13. Thus, Belgian carrier Brussels Airlines is scrambling to change the logo design on the tail and sides of its Airbus jets -- a design that, up until recently, was comprised of 13 balls that formed the letter "b."
The change came in response to superstitious American and Italian customers who had complained about the logo. According to Brussels ...
