Re: Announcement

On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 09:24:45 GMT, se...@the.end.of.my.post (Grushenka)
wrote:

>FELICITATAIONS Rayo!!! Although I haven't read any post of yours before (I am relatively new here) and you probably haven't read any of mine either, I still
>want to say I am very happy for you.  :-)
>Originally I really wished to make you a pair of Chinese bride & bridegroom ASCII (I mean, a wedding couple wearing Chinese wedding gown & 'tuxedo'), but owing
>to my apprenticeship in ASCII-art, I am just incapable of doing so.  So instead I have made you this:
>
>                 __|__ __|__
>                  _|_   _|_
>                 .---. .---.    
>                 |___| |___|       
>                 _\_/_ _\_/_    
>                  _X_   _X_    
>                 |   | |   |
>                 |___| |___|
>
>So you may wonder what the heck that is...well, that is (supposed to be, anyway) the Chinese letter/word that is exclusively used to denote "a wedding event".
>This word is actually composed of a more general word, namely 
>                 ___|___
>                  __|__ 
>                  .---.     
>                  |___|        
>                 __\_/__    
>                  __X__      
>                 |     | 
>                 |_____|
>
>which means "happy" or "happiness", and by concatenating two copies of this above word, you get that special word about wedding.  In fact, if you go to any
>chinese restaurant, pretty often you can see this word, made into 3-D and painted in golden, hanging on the wall near the dragons.  I hope you know what I mean.
>
>
>Anyway, congratulations once again! :-)
>As for everyone else, today's Chinese class is over and you are now dismissed.
>
>Veruschka. :-)
>  

As fate would have it, my marriage invitation was in the form of a
large hand painted card with the characters for "having good times" -
"heart open". So, my girlfriend will take great pleasure in your gift.

BTW, I grew up in Yokohama and Taipei.

rayo

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