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lol that's a good one KR. Okay, finally, here's mine.
The reason I felt compelled to enter this despite not really having the time to do so is because the theme aptly fell upon the occasion of Chinese New Year (which began 26th January this year, though the festivities go for 15 days).
I happen to know that this wouldn't be relevant to most of you (with the exception of Parsat). Well, in Australia and Malaysia (where I spent the last 3 weeks), CNY is a big deal, especially in the latter country, so you're fairly inundated with it. I used to feel that CNY was the amalgamation of blatantly materialistic sentiment and was therefore the bastion of misguided ideology but I got over that and instead started embracing the overly gaudy proliferation of red and gold lanterns, fire crackers and, of course, the notorious ang pao. Traditional CNY folk songs ran through my head until I wanted to smash my head through a brick wall (not such a good thing). I developed a curious desire to dress in traditional Chinese dress until I realised it'd be a one-time-only wear as I couldn't possibly wear such in Australia except maybe to the annual "Dag Nite" med student ball @ Monash or something.
In short, this all led to me wanting to share a part of my own cultural heritage, despite the fact that I was born and raised in a country, even a world apart from it.
As for the picture, well, to anybody who knows a smidgen about CNY the joke should be self-explanatory, but I'll explain it anyway- according to the Chinese Zodiac, 2009 marks the Year of the Ox. Hence Strop's impersonation (the Year of the Horse was in 2002, and there are 12 animals in the cycle). Note that I was not born in either the year of the horse, nor the ox, haha.
There you go. Culture!