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Today is August 08, 2008

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For the Chinese the number 8 is lucky becuase of its continuity. Here are some facts about the number EIGHT (thanks wikipedia).

• The word for “eight” in Chinese sounds similar to the word which means “prosper” or “wealth”. In regional dialects the words for “eight” and “fortune” are also similar, eg Cantonese “baat” and “faat”.

• There is also a resemblance between two digits, “88″, and the shuang xi (’double joy’), a popular decorative design composed of two stylized characters (xi, ‘joy’, ‘happiness’).

• Telephone number 8888-8888 was sold for USD$270,723 in Chengdu, China.

• A man in Hangzhou offered to sell his license plate reading A88888 for 1.12 million yuan.

• Dragon Fish Industry in Singapore, a breeder of rare Asian Arowanas (which are “lucky fish” themselves, and, being a rare species, are required to be microchipped), makes sure to use numbers with plenty of eights in their microchip tag numbers, and appears to reserve particularly numbers especially rich in eights and sixes (e.g. 702088880006688) for particularly valuable specimens.

• Beijing Summer Olympics makes this day historical because its sheduled to open today, August 8, 2008 (08/08/08) at 8:00PM woohoo… GO TEAM Philipppines!!! To get updates and results, you can visit Beijing Olympics Official site

• Google Joins the 2008 Beijing Olympics Celebration, this shows that the World is watching.