Past memories...... 2

It is easily discernible that people nowadays do not know how to read a calendar. They have misconstrued the meaning of certain notations on the calendar. As a result, Elyminator sees a need to eliminate these misconceptions.

Let's start off with the basics. The year is usually stated at the top of the page. "January", "February", "March", "April", "May" ... are months of the year and are stated either next to the year or at the central-top of a set of numbers. These numbers are known as days of the month and are ranged from 1-31. One important point is that the first day of the week is Sunday, not Monday! Saturday is the last day of a week. There are 52 weeks in a year. February is a special month. Every year, there are 28 days in February. However, years that are of multiples of 4's but not 200's have 29 days in February! Amazing!

Now, I shall move on to the next part. In some calendars, you can see a row of cute animals and they are known as the Chinese Zodiac. It comes with some numbers below, which represents the year you are born in. Please take note that the Chinese calendar is 1 year ahead of the Western calendar. For example, you are born in 1991, but in the Chinese calendar, you are born in 1990, that makes you 1 year older! Isn't that cool? =( Take a closer look at the Chinese characters, most probably by the side of the animals. These are the names of the animals. (That's quite obvious though)

Last but not least, the most important part - the shadings. There are 2 different colours of boxes in the calendar. One of which is white, and the other is coloured, depending on which type you purchased. For those white boxes, everyone knows that they are working and schooling days. However, problems arouse from the coloured boxes. Many people are misled by the legend below that remarked that the coloured boxes represent "school holidays" but I am here to tell you that they are wrong! In other words, people misinterpreted what is shown. The term "school holidays", to most students, refers to having a break from school. However, it actually meant the other way round - the school is having a break from you noisy irritating youngsters - or that the school is on holiday. As for human beings, "school holidays" means to give the school a break and study at home instead. In other words, the different colours represent the different venues where we should work/study. When a box is white, we should go to school for studies, and parents go to their offices to work. When a box is coloured, it implies that we should study at home and parents would perform "home work" - working from home. Please REMEMBER!!!

Let's make things clear. Reading a calendar is not as easy as one might think it is. It takes years of skills and experiences to prognosticate the true meanings of the various notations. Hence, let's all start from now and work towards conquering the calendar!