Today is a very special day.

For Chinese the number 8 is considered lucky just like the number 7 in the West. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the 2008 Beijing Olympics starts on August 8, 2008 or 08-08-08 at 8.08pm (GMT +8).

The number “8″ is the favorite number for Chinese as it is pronounced as “Fai” - means rich in Chinese. Who don’t want to be rich?

You will observe that the Chinese will prefer to live on the 8th floor, or use the phone number with a lot of number 8, or having car registration number that have the number 8 etc. Since the number 8 is so much in demand, one will have to pay extra to have the number 8.

On today (08-08-08), it is predicted to be a record number of weddings, even surpassing the number of weddings on 07-07-07 (July 7, 2007). According to Chinese Astrology, the date 08-08-08 is in the year of the Rat (2008), the month of the Monkey (August), and the day of the Dragon. It just so happens that the Rat, Monkey and Dragon are in the same affinity group or trine. That means the three Chinese Zodiac animal signs are perfectly compatible with each other. It’s ideal!

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