A foolish day ahead?
I think I’m foolish enough being awake at 4.30am and feeling a need to blog!
I think I’m foolish enough to think I’m getting preggy because I can’t fall back to sleep!
I think I’m foolish enough to actually have a need to find out what is so significant today’s date is!
I think I’m foolish enough to sit here actually typing all these nonsense at 6am because I think I need to mark my calendar to have at least one post on April 1st!
Hey! It’s April Fool’s Day for cheese sake! 
I think I know why I can’t sleep…
Well, before I think I wanna get my hands on the keyboard, I have thought of falling back to lalaland but suddenly Darrius started whinning away with ‘milk’ ‘milk’ ‘milk’ and PiggyBeng just can’t stand bear the whinning as he was thinking the little devil could be suffering from thirst or hunger so he told me to just feed him… or for whatever the reason is…
Then a trip to the toilet and my eyes just can’t stay shut anymore! So here I am and being so awake!
Well, since I’m up and it is still too early to walk to the market, might as well I go google around and check out what is soooooo significant about this fool’s day…. that worth a post at 6.30am!
Found this article by Jerry Wilson :
Unlike most of the other nonfoolish holidays, the history of April Fool’s Day, sometimes called All Fool’s Day, is not totally clear. There really wasn’t a “first April Fool’s Day” that can be pinpointed on the calendar. Some believe it sort of evolved simultaneously in several cultures at the same time, from celebrations involving the first day of spring.
The closest point in time that can be identified as the beginning of this tradition was in 1582, in France. Prior to that year, the new year was celebrated for eight days, beginning on March 25. The celebration culminated on April 1. With the reform of the calendar under Charles IX, the Gregorian Calendar was introduced, and New Year’s Day was moved to January 1.
However, communications being what they were in the days when news traveled by foot, many people did not receive the news for several years. Others, the more obstinate crowd, refused to accept the new calendar and continued to celebrate the new year on April 1. These backward folk were labeled as “fools” by the general populace. They were subject to some ridicule, and were often sent on “fools errands” or were made the butt of other practical jokes.
This harassment evolved, over time, into a tradition of prank-playing on the first day of April. The tradition eventually spread to England and Scotland in the eighteenth century. It was later introduced to the American colonies of both the English and French. April Fool’s Day thus developed into an international fun fest, so to speak, with different nationalities specializing in their own brand of humor at the expense of their friends and families.
In Scotland, for example, April Fool’s Day is actually celebrated for two days. The second day is devoted to pranks involving the posterior region of the body. It is called Taily Day. The origin of the “kick me” sign can be traced to this observance.
Mexico’s counterpart of April Fool’s Day is actually observed on December 28. Originally, the day was a sad remembrance of the slaughter of the innocent children by King Herod. It eventually evolved into a lighter commemoration involving pranks and trickery.
Pranks performed on April Fool’s Day range from the simple, (such as saying, “Your shoe’s untied!), to the elaborate. Setting a roommate’s alarm clock back an hour is a common gag. Whatever the prank, the trickster usually ends it by yelling to his victim, “April Fool!”
Practical jokes are a common practice on April Fool’s Day. Sometimes, elaborate practical jokes are played on friends or relatives that last the entire day. The news media even gets involved. For instance, a British short film once shown on April Fool’s Day was a fairly detailed documentary about “spaghetti farmers” and how they harvest their crop from the spaghetti trees.
April Fool’s Day is a “for-fun-only” observance. Nobody is expected to buy gifts or to take their “significant other” out to eat in a fancy restaurant. Nobody gets off work or school. It’s simply a fun little holiday, but a holiday on which one must remain forever vigilant, for he may be the next April Fool!
So…. now you know why and how April Fool’s Day comes about…
I’m so famish now… guess I’m going to eat a horse today!
A lame post eh? Well… at least it’s not related to any meme! bleah~
HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY PEEPS!
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Hmm..if PB can’t stand the whinning..have him heat up the milk..hehe.
April Fools! Okay I’m late. Not even fashionable.
Interesting history there. I did not know half of that! And me a history lover.