The Sashimi doesn't have much news to report. It's deathly quiet here in Tokyo, aside from the odd buzz on the street of Swine flu or a couple of minor demonstrations outside the Myanmar embassy... there's zip going on.
Must be the dog days of summer.
Oo, newsflash, one minor report, we'll be heading back to Singapore on the 24th of June, then Bangkok on the 7th of July and back to Tokyo by the 10th... and now, back to the dog days of summer.
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why do they call it the dog days of summer ah?
The term "Dog Days" was used by the Greeks as well as the ancient Romans (who called these days caniculares dies (days of the dogs)) after Sirius (the "Dog Star", in Latin Canicula), the brightest star in the heavens besides the Sun. The dog days of summer are also called canicular days.
Popularly believed to be an evil time "when the seas boiled, wine turned sour, dogs grew mad, and all creatures became languid, causing to man burning fevers, hysterics, and phrensies" - Brady’s Clavis Calendarium, 1813.
The Dog Days originally were the days when Sirius, the Dog Star, rose just before or at the same time as sunrise (heliacal rising), which is no longer true owing to precession of the equinoxes. The ancients sacrificed a brown dog at the beginning of the Dog Days to appease the rage of Sirius, believing that the star was the cause of the hot, sultry weather.
Happy?
very cheem...but yeah, thanks
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