This will be a BIG party day for many people, especially weddings. It's a nice and easy date to remember (especially for the guys), plus it's on a Saturday! In Christianity, it is God's perfect number of completion, and in Chinese, it symoblises "togetherness". Now how about that - a perfect number for getting married on, no? Perfect togetherness...and it's even tripled up today.
There is actually an even BIGGER "nice-and-easy-to-remember-number" date coming up in about a year's time, especially for the Chinese, and that is:
And guess what? It falls on a Friday, so it has high potential to be a big party date too! For the Chinese, the number 8 sounds like the words "fortune", "wealth" and "prosper" in eg. Mandarin and Cantonese. Also, if you put "88" together, you get "shuang xi" (囍 — literally "double joy" or "double happiness"), which is a popular decorative design of the character 喜 (xi, 'joy', 'happiness') written twice.
So 08.08.08 will be your wealth and prosperity tripled, and 0喜.0喜.0喜 will be your happiness tripled ;o). And it seems that the summer Olympics in Beijing is going to start on 8/8/08 at 8:08:08 p.m.
But there's a more important significance of this wonderful date... . Ah yes, you see, on this date some XX years ago, a girl named "Sheila" was born :o). That's right, 8.8 (囍) is my birthday :o)! I kinda missed throwing a big party on 8.8.88 since I was still just a child on that date, but 08.08.08 is going to make up for it ;o).
Well, I might be throwing a big party this year too, but that's only mainly because I will be entering the 3rd decade ;o).
