ASIANS  &  FRIENDS  HOUSTON 

When: Saturday, February 13, 7:00PM

 

Where: At the home of members Noel and David, 611 W 20th Street, Houston, TX 77008

 

This will be a potluck party, so bring your favorite new year’s food.  It is a custom at the Lunar New Year that whatever you do on New Year’s Day is predictive and you will be doing it a whole lot during the next year.  So bring your favorite dish to share to ensure that you will be having it often in 2016. (Please bring enough food to feed five adults.)  Board members Tony and Paul will be donating a large cake since they will be celebrating the New Year in Singapore with family.

 

The Lunar New Year is a time to visit family and old friends so consider partying with your Asians & Friends family to start the Year of the Monkey!

 

The Monkey

Chinese New Year/Tet 2016 will be a year of the Monkey. People born in a year of the monkey (1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, and 2016) are witty, intelligent and have a magnetic personality. Monkey people are also characterized as curious, innovative and mischievous. In addition, their gentleness and honesty bring them an everlasting love life. Although they were born with enviable skills, they still have several shortcomings, such as an impetuous temper and a tendency to look down upon others.

The Monkey is very intelligent, hyperactive and strong-minded. It represents the unfettered mind freed from inhibitions and guilt. Relieved from the heavy burdens of a touchy conscience, the Monkey type will not hesitate to test their theories, experiment and think the unthinkable. In their domain, everything is possible. What is difficult, they could do right away; what is impossible may take a little longer. These qualities make them such fast learners and enable them to excel in a wide range of careers from business to science and arts.
Monkey people are always seeking novelty. Therefore, they may find it difficult settling down in relationship. Easily bored, they often have many partners. Yet, those who can conquer the heart of “monkey” people are fortunate since “monkey” people tend to be very open and attentive in communication.

All the animals have a shadow side, and the Monkey is no exception. The problem solving tendencies can turn the Monkey to being a tricky tactician, opportunistic and not all that trustworthy. The youthfulness hides an unscrupulous adolescent, and the independence can turn to unfaithfulness. Ominously, the year of the Monkey believed to be one of the most unlucky years in the Chinese calendar.
Health is often not a worry to “monkey” people since they prefer an outdoor and active lifestyle. Still, “monkey” people should pay more attention to ensure their safety when they are outdoors.
 

Strengths: sociable, innovative, enthusiastic, self-assured
 

Weaknesses: suspicious, cunning, selfish, arrogant, jealous
 

Some important or merely famous people born in the Year of the Monkey:
Leonardo da Vinci, Federico Fellini, Harry S. Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mick Jagger, John Milton, Paul Gauguin, Lyndon B. Johnson, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Nelson Rockefeller, Charles Dickens, Queen Sirkit of Thailand, Amadeo Modigliani, Pope John Paul II, Joe Cocker, George Lucas, Diana Ross, Julio Iglesias, Danny De Vito, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mel Gibson, James Stewart, Jacques Tati, Salvador Allende, Simone de Beauvoir, Gustav Mahler, Annie Oakley, Charlie Parker, Ravi Sankar, Howard Cosell, Arthur Hailey, Isaac Stern, Macauley Culkin, Aubrey Beardsley, Elizabeth Taylor, Sylvia Plath, François Truffaut, Omar Sharif, Anouk Aimee, Peter O’Toole, Louis Malle, Tom Hanks, Harry Houdini, Will Smith and Miley Cyrus and Little Richard.