Verves In Composition

Amongst all things, a colleague and I were discussing about getting another phone line to of course, save some costs.

With the very Chinese blood flowing through our veins and by some natural call of nature to ‘Chink Genetics’ we with reflex started translating and analyzing the numbers as closely as an auditor buried in numbers.

We are buoyed in emotion with the rates of the latest Happy Line; and yet cringe at the sight of the accursed ‘dying’ number in it’s 014 prefix.

I kid you not. We later tried incredibly hard to think of numbers to completely nullify the abating number that could mean suffering, expiring and ultimately just dying. Maybe if we had a number along the lines of ‘-545454′ (won’t die, won’t die, won’t die) that should do the trick!

Then there were those other numbers we hoped we weren’t unlucky enough to get addressed with. Fortunate for you if you know Chinese; it’s really much funnier at the sound and intonation it carries (I will however translate the bit)

114 1146 – everyday die everyday die and fall/drop

114 1124 – everyday die, everyday easy to die

535 4444 – don’t live; don’t die, die die die

246 4114 – easy die, drop and die, everyday die

Don’t blame us for being a slave to ciphers of Chinese numbers, I figure we could have been brought up in an almost identical manner when it comes to unraveling “the secrets of digits” *Insert sound effect of heavy noise from timpani drums here*

My own family itself has acquired a taste of fine numbers that we are engrossed obsessed by it.We’re just so completely gripped by it, I could illustrate the following examples:

My own car number means:“Fortune and Prosperity would come my way”

Part of my mothers hand phone number means “prosperity will easily be acquired”

We never cut our food stuffs into four pieces…EVER.

My own mobile states “You live, you will prosper. You die, you will prosper. You live or die, still will fortune is still yours”

One of my important documents has the number “5558”; which although in complete Chinese means “I won’t ever never prosper”. Shocked by my unfortunate luck with numbers when I applied for that document, my auntie has so Bastardised it so accordingly so it reads “Five, five, five, fatt” or in other words… ‘”fai fai fai fatt” in essence would lead to…”Quick fortunes”

I mean…until we had to ROMANISE the bloody number. Legalise it to a half parentage of English. MY GOD.

So now, should I still stick to the Happy Line and pretend that I’m not the least bit bothered with the number ruling my life whenever i give my number away. Then on the other hand I could still save alot of money AND THEN prosper with a mobile line with good rates. Or just look for a way to debauch the number in a foreign language.

It must be that confounded superstitious Chinese New Year bug that’s landing a couple of bites on me