Eggonometry 鸡蛋学

Lap Chun in Lunar Calendar, or Spring/Vernal Equinox, literally means the start of spring. So this year spring starts on the 4/2/18. Though it is all year round summer here, not much excitement of the change of seasons or seasonal activities we have here, yet our culture adds some hype in it. There are few practices/believes in our culture that some may practice during this day:

1) Cleaning the house for the flow of positive energy

2) Switching on all the lights in the house, a symbolism for a brighter future

3) Decorating the house themed with red decorations as an act for prosperity

4) Banking in money to the bank account for the belief of boosting the luck of wealth

5) Standing the eggs (yes, literally and physically “standing” the eggs)

I don’t usually practice item 4 and 5 for all these years but I had broken the tradition this year due to all the hypes around. The messages had been flying all over the place. A friend of mine was asking me whether I have tried standing the eggs. Excuse me? Erm, didn’t our parents advise us not to play with our food? Besides, I wonder what is so fun playing with the eggs. We used to have these scenes of a whole bunch of kids (the students) and few adults (the teachers) squatting at the corridor under the sun trying to balance the eggs to make them stand. I would be sitting on the side-lines at my desk enjoying the eggs balancing show. Hah, riddikulus!

After x moons passes and *cough* now it was my turn to have fun with the eggs…..Riddikulus seems to work. And, yes. I gave it a shot.

Now, you would have seen that a human form like figure squatting at the car porch with an egg trying to balance it on different areas of the floor. Out of my expectation, it stood after 20 minutes of trying. You would now see the human like figure "posing" on the floor trying to get the best angles for capturing the glorious moment. Selfies with egg, which are Eggfies. 

Overwhelm with self-satisfaction and pride, I tried to challenge myself balancing another few eggs.

 

Now, another scene of a human form like figure squatting with several eggs on the floor trying to balance them with one egg at each hand. The eggs will be merrily rolling all over the place and the human like figure will be frantically chasing after the rolling eggs under a ray of hot sun……karma of having fun watching over other people’s “egging” game.

One of them stood, finally, after 30 minutes of being a Mad Egg Chaser. Yes, another round of eggfies. When God opens a window, He closes one door. A breeze of wind caused the standing egg to fall flat on the floor. Well, at least 2 attempts were successful. *please excuse me for my high EQ spirit*

While I was merrily sharing *cough, should be bragging* my fruitful attempts with people around, one of them actually suggested me to glued the eggs with double side tape……Anyway, playing a game with and without cheatcode, the difference is the level of self-satisfaction and achievement, no?

Any of you guys have tried out the “eggonometry”? Give it a try, bet you, it will be very fun. Yes, very, very, FUN. And don’t play with cheatcode kay.

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Thought of putting my post title as “playing with eggs”, but I believe that this will bring about some pretty interesting misunderstanding *raising both eyebrows*.  But still, my persistent will of showing my effort put in “standing” the eggs *sweat* for an hour plus lights up the word “eggonometry”. Yes, not ergonometric, it is EGGonometry, as a way to brag all the sweat, time and effort put in just to make some oval like item called an egg stand…..

Have fun,
SL Alpha