Fortune cookies
Jun. 20th, 2009 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marydellI started saving fortune-cookie fortune slips when we started our China adoption process in 2006. When we gave up on going to China (although it's still sort of a possibility) I stopped saving them, but we still eat a lot of fortune cookies so the slips tend to end up all over the house. Charlie (who was adopted here in the states, but is Chinese) just got ahold of one and tried to eat it. I rescued it/him. His fortune is "Grant yourself a wish this year, only you can do it." and his "learn Chinese" word is "jiang" - Ginger.
His birthday is tomorrow so I'm choosing to regard this as meaningful, although the actual meaning escapes me. His Chinese name is Jialin but it's not the same "jia" as the one in "jiang" (I don't know how to represent the pinyin accenting in html, but there are different accents, and his name is two characters whereas "jiang" is one) so I don't think that's a shocking coincidence. Although it would be fun if it was.
His birthday is tomorrow so I'm choosing to regard this as meaningful, although the actual meaning escapes me. His Chinese name is Jialin but it's not the same "jia" as the one in "jiang" (I don't know how to represent the pinyin accenting in html, but there are different accents, and his name is two characters whereas "jiang" is one) so I don't think that's a shocking coincidence. Although it would be fun if it was.
