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07.11.2012 | 烏鴉傳說

[Volume 7 Issue 11, #1591]
相信大家都有聽過關於一隻聰明烏鴉如何飲用瓶底中嘅水呢個故事.. 當然我唔係要講呢個故事大家聽, 如果你想知, 麻煩你去翻一翻幼稚園小朋友嘅課本啦, 呵呵!! 我想同大家分享嘅, 係以前某個朋友話我知, 如果你朝早瞓醒嘅時候見到一隻烏鴉, 咁好可能呢一日你會行衰運, 除非你係見到超過三隻烏鴉而唔係單單一隻囉.. 自此我就一路認住認住, 所以每次一見到烏鴉, 我都會好自然去搵其他幾隻烏鴉, 叫做「化解」咁啦.. 有時又真係會行衰運喎, 可能係自己認住?? 不過又唔可以話完全迷信.. 大家覺得呢??
i am sure you have heard about the story of how a clever crow drinks water from the bottom of a jar.. but this is of course not the story i wanted to tell here, if you want to know, go flip the books of a kindergarten kid, haha!! what i wanted to share here is, i heard a friend who once told me, if you wake up in the morning and see a crow, then it will be a bad bad day for you, unless you see more than three and not just a single crow.. since then i have always believe that, and always try to find other crows if i see one in the morning, haha!! but sometimes it did make me a bad day, i wouldn't say it's true but it may not be just a myth too.. or maybe it's my prejudice?? what do you think??

93 comments:

  1. Good morning, Happy Wednesday, peeps. I hope everyone is doing good today, including myself.

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    1. happy wednesday..
      I doing Marvelous today.. and I am so happy today.. :)

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    2. Good afternoon friends. Wednesday buy Magnum and TOTO day. Must see 3 crows first.

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    3. Happy Wednesday everyone!

      Mid-week already.

      Half-way to enjoy the weekend again! Woot! WOot!

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    4. Yo! We have long weekend. Monday our company plant shut down. So, we have longer holiday la! Is anyone coming to Taiping? SP or TM?

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    5. Yeah, I'm so free from Saturday to next Tuesday and I think I'll start grr grr grrrr in my kitchen.

      Annay or Starfish SP is coming? I'll prepare moist and hot muffins fresh from oven.

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    6. You think these big shot city people want to go to small town like Taiping? Dream on lah... LOL!!!

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    7. Yan...cannot go Taiping lo coz this weekend my kucing school concert. Lucky he is botak i no need to do much for him only need to dress him with whatever custome the school gives Makes me wonder could it be gagak costume. LOL

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    8. Meow, this is the best part for having a son. Save a lot of hassle and trouble. I have been busy for 2 continous weeks.

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    9. Y&Y come down to KL and parteeee lah!

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    10. Tentatively, I have postponed my trip to December, just in time for year end sales. I will let you all know when I am there. Not too worry about meet up. Don't need to plan anything, I understand everyone is staying so far from each other, some more the traffic in KL is damn scary one. I am there on weekdays. I don't like to bring kids to meet up my friends. I love hanging out with my friends like HHBC where by I can arrange my husband to take care of them. I am planning to meet up a few close girl friends of myself when I am there this time. Again, it is girls meet up, no bringing kids and spouse one. I just love that.

      No problem, we can whatapps each other to see who is free that time. Ok?

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    1. Aiks! Later by a few seconds~

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    2. I read and heard about the smart crow story repeatedly, before kindy, during kindy and in my primary schooling years~

      But I have yet to intro these moral type of stories to my kids! They are pretty obsessed with princesses and superheroes!

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    3. My two girls have outgrown the princesses and superheroes. They are now reading lots of comics and young adult novels. No more pictures board books for them.

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    4. Story about the crow is rather interesting. But to believe it's a omen, I'm not sure about that. People said if you heard a crow, it signifies a death somewhere. Here, we hardly see any crow. Maybe they are plenty in the zoo. :)

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    5. I read that before....
      smart crow.. want to to drink water..

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    6. Big crows in park in Japan (Ueno Park for instance) have people (oyaji - old retired Japanese guys) feeding them.

      Seems like crow isn't bad news to them ;p

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    7. wah Yan, your girls so advance ah? So fast reading Young Adults(YA) books. They like Vampire type of story or not?

      Recently i read one YA series that have Vampire and crows. Rather scary leh. But seems very popular with kids nowadays.

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  3. No crows here, thank God! Not like over there... So many! Everywhere! Their blood-curdling caws give me the creeps...

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    1. Good morning, STP, Yannie, SP, TM, Lina, wenn, meow and everyone later than me :)

      SK is talking cock and bird today :D

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    2. I hardly spot any crow here, too! Mostly are house sparrows, magpie, and myna.

      And I hate crows!! They are so big, noisy and intimidating! Ya leh, back then I was afraid of crows, they are huge and I got scared when a flock of them stared at me; I was just a 7 years old small-frame little girl, in the school field for P.E. lesson.

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    3. wah taiping is so clean .. no crow at all..
      SK place is so dirty full of crow. kakakaka.
      last time I stay in Klang and there have lots of crows .. still now also the same..

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    4. Crow meat is popular in Europe and they make Crow Pies!!!! bluek!

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    5. Bangsar is so full of crows. Evening time, can listen to thier "songs" o.O

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    6. Are you serious, annay? The Europeans eat crow meat? How about the bird flu disease?

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    7. You stay in Bangsar, Lina? @.@!!!! Ooooo....high class area, for the rich & famous...

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    8. TM you joking ka? Crow pies??? can eat one meh?

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    9. Bangsar pun ada low cost flat tau! hahaha

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    10. You aunties go google Crow Pies and you will know I am not crowing with you. Even in UK they have people who love to eat them.

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  4. A muth, no doubt! I saw 1 in the morning when I was in KL, the day SP took me out for breakfast., Ok leh...good day, lots to eat...and SP paid and so did mama pussy and my other friends for lunch and dinner. Hehehehehehe!!!!

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    1. It's a myth, and I fell for it when I was young. Can't remember which idiot friend told me about this stupid taboo!

      So when I saw one, I searched for the second and third frantically! Crazy, huh? T____T SK's post today makes me recalled my memories - how come I so silly one?

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    2. oo I have not heard about this taboo..
      Ipoh also a very clean city.. kakaka

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    3. Next time bring STP to eat Barbequed Crows for better luck then!

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    4. They do not look much worse than the celebrated black chicken...

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  5. Sometimes...if you believe it will happen, it will happen!!!! My friend - his friend told him bad luck comes in 3's...so he had a stroke of bad luck (missed his flight)...and he waited for the next one (car accident)...and it came...and the next one, and it came (place flooded)! Some of these things - best not to listen, and not to believe...

    P.S.
    What I heard was - good luck comes in 3's. So which would you believe?

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  6. Certainly it was your bad day, SK~ After seeing the 1st crow, you need to "see" another 2 crows but you didn't, and you regarded as bad luck for not be able to spot them :)

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    1. Just don't think so much of it.

      Frankly I'd forgotten about this myth until you mentioned it here. See... not knowing (or forgotten) about it and you won't see the bad luck is triggered from the crow sighting :)

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    2. I haven't heard about this kind of omen before. You have to spot another two when you have seen one? That's difficult as they don't usually flock together.

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    3. wenn this is because Ipoh is such a clean and beautiful place .. where we got heard this such belief.
      actually you usually you can see it as a group

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    4. KL really got a lot of dirty places and Hamsap people like SP. That is why crows love to nest here!

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    5. You not KL people kah, TM? Maybe your area no crows...as they all know you are there!

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    6. LOL...sk you bad luck ka? Like that must go touch touch TM for good luck lor. You heard he so lucky last weekend right? maybe some of the good luck will rub off on you

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    7. Better rub Kaldip's crow for bigger luck!

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  7. Eh! SK is talking about crow and this very famous moral story. I thought you will blog about using iPad to take video and picture at concert.

    Anyway, this moral story I have read N times and so as my two girls.

    SK, you belief in old wives' tales, aren't you? So lesson learn, don't simply tell your children about old wives' tales which have no scientific proven.

    Last time, my mom like to tell me some old wives' tales too. Once you listened, you would never forget.

    Don't let all these believes affect you. Many are not true.

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    1. Last time, my mom told me when eye lids twitching means bad luck is coming soon too. So, now I am scared when my eye lids twitching.

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    2. My hubb still believe this old wives' tale up to today. He calls me to be extra careful whenever his eyelids twitch, especially the left one, hahaha!

      (That's when I sense his ♥)

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    3. sometimes we just need to believe in order to be on the safe side.

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    4. For eg, it is not adviseable to move house, nail wall and sew on the bed during pregnancy. Even, painting the wall also should be avoided.

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    5. yan left eyes is GOOD..
      so twitching more and you will be Huatttt ahhh

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    6. Aiyah.. my eyes twitched. My palm itchy.

      But tak pernah kena loteri pun! wakaka

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  8. I heard friends telling me about seeing black cat in the morning and you'll get bad luck for the rest of the day.

    Black cat = Black crow, perhaps??

    I even tried avoid seeing black cats at all cost! LOL!

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    1. maybe black equates to bad luck or omen. Chinese especially doesn't like black but nowadays youngsters couldn't be bothered about black clothing. Old generation are rather superstitious.

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    2. Or perhaps due to respect to elders, don't wear ALL black - it's a pain to their eyes because black is associated to "death" thingy. Match some colourful headgear or gold and bold accessory or striking color shoes :)

      And a big NO-NO to black color during CNY, old people pantang!

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    3. Last time I was very mind to wear whole suit in black. Now, i like black dress, but I will use some colour accessories like red earrings, red bangles and red necklace.

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    4. When I had bad day and realised I wore all black that day, I will wear red to sleep!

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    5. Annay, uou must be dressed up like Santa Clause when you go to bed.

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    6. Now annay is my daughter's Santa Clause who sent her early Christmas gift! ♥

      Wear red during CNY, including the underwear for more HUAT!!

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    7. Who sent your girl a Christmas gift? Alamak!!! No wonder rain, rain, rain.,..non-stop over there till all the places flooded!!! Muahahahahaha!!!!

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    8. Black cat not the ang moh punya belief meh? lack cats are helper of witches mah.

      Eh but Chinese likes Black dogs leh. Good leh.

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  9. we filipinos are very superstitious even cutting nails at night was bad said by the elders
    i dont know some are just too much haha

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    1. OMG! We Chinese have that superstitious too! The elders forbid us to cut our nails at night. Reason unknown. Hahaha!

      But I still cut my kids' ones at night. Am working in the day time and reach home when the sun almost goes down. Either I wait until weekend to cut them or... but hey, I don't like long dirty fingernails :)

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    2. Malay also same lah...

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    3. Lina, really?? You also cannot cut nails at night? Hehehe....

      So what's the story behind to nail cutting at night? Wait, no need to tell me. There's this thing called GOOGLE :)
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      Reason:
      1) you can't be with your parents when they die
      2) you might meet with ghosts or dream of ghosts that night

      My answer:
      In the olden day, ppl do not have proper lighting and much depend on candle or kerosene and they most probably use scissors to cut the nail, instead of nail clipper. So guess what might happen when one is not careful :)

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    4. Chinese also have this superstitious - cannot point finger at the moon, or else you'll end up with a cut behind your ear.






      Back to googling :p

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    5. Betul what Yvonne say la...old days no proper lighting and some use scissors to cut nails. so cannot cut properly la. better day time cut the nails

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  10. i grew up hearing this some makes sense in a way that it some how has a reasonable meaning but some were just made to scare kids so they will behave

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  11. well in my point of view there's nothing wrong believing in such things as long as it doesnt affect your life style badly

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  12. by the way i have to google that story coz i never heard or read of it

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  13. i heard about black cat's bad luck but never heard of something about crow haha well perhaps if you have seen or not just take the best of care

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  14. Oh dear, I hope that's not true.. because where I live now, there are always crows in the morning. ALWAYS! In fact, they are the ones waking us up every morning when they keep making the 'ark ark' sound. Very annoying and loud!

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  15. have a great day and happy bloggin sk my friend take care always and god bless

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  16. 烏鴉係紫禁城稱之為神鴉, 吉祥之物也!

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  17. Hmmm I've never seen a solo crow before though....

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  18. We all have our own belief systems. Some cultures believe in omens to foretell whether the day will be a good one. I think there is no right or wrong, we just believe what we believe. Even dreams can tell us something for those who know how to interpret them. Just stay alert and be cautious though some events cannot be avoided.

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  19. Good day everyone

    Huh...Gagak ah? Ya read that story before. That was long long time ago.

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    1. There were a lot of gagak at my old house. EVery morning also "Wak Wak Wak" very noisy. Very cham like that. Proabably coz the tong sampah place was nearby and the lorry sampah have not come puick up sampah

      I know one place in seri petaling that you cannot park car else come back the whole car will be "repainted"

      Now no longer allow to shoot gagak is it? I remember when i was small that time there are men from Bandaraya come and shoot the gagak.

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  20. Ai....i already scheduled a post for tomorrow about curse/pantang ....... sometimes dun know whether to believe it or not.

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    1. Some said dun point to the moon......dun sleep with leg pointing towards the main door...and many more. I've heard of this gagak case too.... see 1 is bad. See more is ok........ahhaha....luckily my house dun have gagak. Only small little birds.

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    2. my kids' kindy book doesn't have this story le.... i think this cerita dongeng can only finds in primary school la.... haha

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    3. Some said 3's a blessings. So after 'sui' for 3 things in a day, the 4th will be a good one.

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    4. LOL....so many pantang larang.

      But i dont like crows coz they poo everyhwre. Halfway flying also can poo one.

      then eat from the tong sampah and the food will drop every where. Messing up the place

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    5. I'm not superstitious, but I will try to avoid 4th, 14th and those number with 4. But my parent's house number is 44. Mum said it is a good number which showing 2 person sitting folding their legs (qiao jiao) = good life.

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  21. u mean once open your eye and see crow outside ur window is it? it might be true or it might not be true lol

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    1. for me bad day or not by seeing any crow once I wake up from my bed, I don't think I believe that hahaha

      unless early morning heard those crow voice instead of chicken voice :P

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    2. and yah, by seeing the picture, I thought u wanna tell some fortune story :P

      or improved story version from u hahaha

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    3. or either saw black cat early morning isn't a good sign too XD not only crow . . .

      unless those animal stare at you for long period lol

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  22. Black is always associated with black magic or mourning....unfortunately, the crow feathers are black......
    When you see a crow in the morning, dun think of bad things lah......think of this wonderful kindergarten story, then everything will be alright.

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  23. Very familiar with the story from the kindergarten story book...the crow seems silly enough just to have a taste of the water...:) Omens would always be omens...:)


    xx!

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  25. 看不出来你那么pantang wor... :P

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