13th Friday

Sigh…today is a super duper BAD day to me. Well, woke up early in the morning to get ready to class. Then heavy rain. If not because of the presentation I will back to my bed to continue my dreams. Then hor, something happened during the presentation and I knew she purposely kenakan us. Well, suan! And then, friend’s laptop kena virus so spent another hour to burn a cd.

After that went Alamanda with Joy for lunch and shopping (spent money as usual). Think I’ve never drove there before so I was not clear with the parking rate. The free parking is for the first or first 2 hours only and I thought it’s free per entry. So I was stuck at the exit and the stupid guard asked me to reverse my car which I shall not do so since behind got no car! And then, the clever me reverse without look at the side and my car got SCRATCH! huhuhu…..:’( Really an unlucky Friday…

:'(

J'pan D'tox ginger tea with a free tea cup

Got from yahoo:

If Friday the 13th is unlucky, then 2009 is an unusually unlucky year. This week's Friday the 13th is one of three to endure this year.

The first came last month. The next is in November. Such a rare triple-threat occurs only once every 11 years.

The origin of the link between bad luck and Friday the 13th is murky. The whole thing might date to Biblical times (the 13th guest at the Last Supper betrayed Jesus). By the Middle Ages, both Friday and 13 were considered bearers of bad fortune. In modern times, the superstition permeates society.

Here are five of our favorite Friday-the-13th facts:

1. Fear of Friday the 13th - one of the most popular myths in science - is called paraskavedekatriaphobia as well as friggatriskaidekaphobia. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.

2. Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor and some airline terminals omit Gate 13.

3. President Franklin D. Roosevelt would not travel on the 13th day of any month and would never host 13 guests at a meal. Napoleon and President Herbert Hoover were also triskaidekaphobic, with an abnormal fear of the number 13.

4. Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. "It was bad luck," Twain later told the friend. "They only had food for 12." Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest.

5. The number 13 suffers from its position after 12, according to numerologists who consider the latter to be a complete number - 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles of Jesus, 12 days of Christmas and 12 eggs in a dozen.