Year of the Pig

Feb 9th, 2007, in News, by

It’s almost Chinese Year of the Pig but the matter is causing confusion for the Indonesian postal service.

To celebrate the arrival of the Year of the Pig, come Chinese New Year on the 18th of February, Indonesia Post is issuing a series of twelve stamps featuring all the animals of the Chinese zodiac – minus the pig. Each animal in the zodiac has its own stamp except the pig, which has been replaced by a stamp featuring a Chinese temple surrounded by twelve small versions of the zodiac animals.

The stamps are said to be the first ever issued to mark the Lunar Year in Indonesia since a national holiday was declared for the day in 2000 and are due to be released on February 14th.

Indonesia Post director Hana Suryana says afp:

Indonesia never outwardly printed anything on this theme. It is difficult for us not to issue the Chinese New Year stamps especially after the revisions (in the design).

Apparently there was some reluctance about printing the stamp at all, pig or no pig.

Chinese Year of the Pig Stamp
Not like this, a Chinese Year of the Pig Stamp from Hong Kong.


35 Comments on “Year of the Pig”

  1. Ihaknt says:

    SGN, I just got an email about the same joke of human vs pigs you posted earlier. Heheheheh, now I get it. I thought you were just on some kind of a low b-grade Canadian pots. Or are you? Hehehe, have a good weekend.

  2. sgn says:

    Here, now is Thursday night. 😉
    Tomorrow, I still need to go to work.

    Have a nice weekend to you and all other forumners.

    sgn.

  3. Dimp says:

    Hey sgn,

    I though Canadians get their “drugs” for free.

  4. Ihaknt says:

    REALLY??? I AM MOVING THERE!

  5. Jamet says:

    I am French, I eat pork meat. My friends Mehdi, Djamel and Abdoulaye do not. But my friends Mustapha, Abdelkader and David eat pork meat too and they drink wine (one glass of good red wine of Bordeaux per day is a great medicine against heart diseases). Many French people like snails. I hate that. But, finally, who cares ? What is the matter if we eat that, drink that, think that?
    The main thing is to live peacefully whatever we think, we are, we come from.

    The big problem of our society is people who cannot accept others to be different of them.
    98 per cent of people wish to live in peace, have food, home and education for their family. And only 2 per cent of people, mentally insane, have only a purpose: to make our lives a mess. They are fightened by others and cannot accept they are happy. That’s all.
    Sorry for bad English language.

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