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[VIC] Free Messages on Telstra’s Lunar New Year Billboard (Melbourne)

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[VIC] Free Messages on Telstra’s Lunar New Year Billboard (Melbourne)
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harobed on 01/02/2019 - 15:30 exchange.telstra.com.au (1315 clicks)
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Wish your friends and family overseas or interstate good luck and good fortune from 1-5 February by texting your first name and then the first name of a family member or friend to 0484 800 800 (for a standard national SMS charge), and a personalised Lunar New Year greeting will appear on the outdoor Telstra Discovery Store billboard on Bourke Street, Melbourne.

Once approved, we’ll also send you a text with an MMS picture message of your personalised billboard that you can share via social media – so it doesn’t matter if your family member or friend is in Sydney or Shanghai, they’ll be able to see your BIG billboard greeting.

Happy New Year for the Year of the Pig.

Telstra’s Lunar New Year billboard will be active from 9:00AM on 1 February to 11:59PM on 5 February. Please note that names need to be in English, and SMS must be sent from an Australian mobile phone. Max 160 characters.

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        • optusprime on 03/02/2019 - 05:44
          +1

          yes, exactly the point why Chinese new year shouldn't be changed to lunar new year, we're not celebrating the same thing at the same time, heck Vietnamese have year of the cat in 2023, i don't celebrate that crap. Leave my culture as it is, don't change it to make other cultures happy when it's not even the same thing.

          its as dumb as renaming it to Asian X'mas.

          • Pantagonist on 03/02/2019 - 07:44

            @optusprime: This promotion runs for 5 days, so it's not marking a particular day and calling it Lunar New Year.

            It would certainly be dumb to call the festival "Asian X'mas" because it's not the time of year when Christmas is celebrated.

            What would be dumb is if every country in the world that celebrates New Year on January 1st according to the Gregorian calendar decided to stick their country's name in front of New Year because they thought they had a monopoly on the concept. Or, alternatively, if the Italians kicked up a fuss about it not being called the Roman New Year because Pope Gregory XIII came up with the concept of the contemporary solar calendar that most of the world now uses.

          • 4tran on 03/02/2019 - 23:42

            @optusprime: No one is changing anything, those who celebrate CNY will continue to do so, and those from other cultures that has similar holidays will do the same. This goes the same for Easter and Christmas, because using your logic, those who aren't Catholics shouldn't be allowed to benefit from it because it doesn't suit their own beliefs. Instead, if you identify yourself to be of another denomination or non-religious for that matter, you still would be able to enjoy the festivities that it creates.

            • optusprime on 04/02/2019 - 06:17

              @4tran: no one is changing anything? are you for real< they changed it from CNY to LNY. clearly it's good for all the "Trans" we don't want your year of the cat!

              • 4tran on 04/02/2019 - 08:34

                @optusprime: Yes I'm for real, because there is more than 1 culture celebrating the same event and it is about being inclusive not exclusive, similar with other religious holidays being commercialised and everyone benefits from it. If you don't want it, don't celebrate it, I'm happy to celebrate it with those like-minded.

    • buckster on 02/02/2019 - 08:47

      Look that's great and all but I think we should also remember the Mongols who developed a lot of China when they conquered it in the 1200s.

    • z28 on 02/02/2019 - 14:11

      "Stop using decorations with Chinese writing on it" - Now you are assuming character writings are Chinese. For your education, old Vietnamese writing is also character.

      • optusprime on 03/02/2019 - 05:46

        lol, old Vietnamese writing came from Chinese, as are old Japanese writings. as is CHINESE NEW YEAR.

        • z28 on 03/02/2019 - 22:57

          english, french … come from Latin so why is it OK to separate languages but not writing/festivals … ? LOL

  • [Deactivated] on 02/02/2019 - 08:22

    Well if Telstra is really celebrating things which were never celeberted in the past then how about about New Year in different religions:

    Hindu New Year
    Islamic New Year
    Sikh Nanakshahi New Year
    Parsi New Year
    Jewish New Year
    Celtic New Year
    Bahai New Year
    Buddhist New Year

    You are clearly licking @rse of the asians because you know your prices are not competitive and they have $$$. No offence to anyone.

    • neonlight on 02/02/2019 - 09:51

      It's Telstra what do you think. They only care where the money is from

  • AussieBogan on 02/02/2019 - 11:05
    +3

    As a Chinese, I usually use lunar new year rather than Chinese New Year in Mandarin. The most formal word is Chinese lunar new year, but we just say lunar year in formal situations, and say new year or spring festival in informal situations. Chinese New Year sounds wired in Mandarin. Cuz we also celebrate solar new year in China (1st of Jan) so lunar new year would be more distinct. I appreciate if you call it Chinese New Year but lunar new year is OK as there is no difference and refer to the same thing in Chinese culture. As long as you enjoy the celebration whatever you call it doesn't matter.

    • neonlight on 02/02/2019 - 14:12

      You are wrong. It's spring festival in Mandarian not lunar new year. 100% you either don't know enough. Nobody use lunar over there.

      Stop pretending and jump on bandwagon. You are afraid to speak out we know it

      • AussieBogan on 02/02/2019 - 14:21
        +1

        我们说春节，新年，农历新年，中国农历新年，但是不会说中国新年，你可以关注一下今年春晚，春晚是最严谨的，甚至连春晚的名字都是春节联欢晚会而不是中国新年联欢晚会

        • optusprime on 03/02/2019 - 05:48

          农历新年不是阴历新年

          • Pantagonist on 03/02/2019 - 07:59

            @optusprime: Thanks to Google Translate I can weigh in, although it actually translates what you wrote as "Lunar New Year is not Lunar New Year", lol.

            Nongli translation = agricultural calendar
            Yinli translation = lunar calendar

            Nothing translates as "Chinese calendar".

          • AussieBogan on 03/02/2019 - 12:40

            @optusprime: Whatever agricultural new year or lunar new year, but not Chinese New Year anyway.

  • OzBargainerr on 02/02/2019 - 16:53
    +2

    I love Chinese New Year!

  • AaronRain on 03/02/2019 - 08:52

    Geee I wonder how many other things has been "stolen" by other cultures and making it their own…

  • optusprime on 04/02/2019 - 08:50
    +1

    Make Chinese New Year great again!

    • z28 on 08/02/2019 - 14:42
      -2

      Let us raise about all races/ists and make it greater by calling it Lunar New Year

      • optusprime on 08/02/2019 - 15:35

        don't make me throw moon cakes at you, boy!

        put the Chinese back into Chinese new year.

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