All eyes will be on Beijing at 8.08.08 on August 8, 2008(8/8/08) when the 2008 Olympics will be inaugurated. Everybody is likely to rush home early to watch the promised spectacle unfold on television.
Closer home, people from different walks of life are looking at the date with special interest and good-luck seekers are trying to etch the date into their personal lives in one way or the other. More so because it is a once-in-a -100-year occurrence.
The obsession has gripped the Chinese too. Websites are inundated with reports of over 9, 000 couples set to tie the knot in China where number eight symbolises infinite luck.
While couples seem to be taken in by the novelty of the day, philatelist Venkatesh S.Yalavigi has designed and distributed 150 envelopes.
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