Ordinary Gweilo

Sunday’s SCMP:

Golden-pig hype goes up in flames

NORMA CONNOLLY

If you think the next lunar year is going to be an incredibly lucky one, think again; you may have fallen victim to commercial hype.

It will not be the year of the golden pig, fortune tellers say. Rather, it is the fire pig which will rule our destinies in the coming 12 months

Here comes the “commercial hype” in, er,  today’s SCMP:

A golden beginning

FOX YI HU

Golden, glistening floats will light up the Lunar New Year parade, a portent to good fortune in the widely hyped year of the “golden pig”.

So is it golden or not?  Do we believe Fox Yiu Hu or Norma Connolly?  Do they talk to each other over at the SCMP?