How to find, choose or create a tartan, for the sake of Auld Lang Syne. Dress of the Day 334.
When I was a student in London, England, I used to like wearing a skirt in Black Watch tartan. After I married, I used to go every year to a Burns Night, January 25, is celebrated in Scotland and by my Scottish neighbour in London, England. This year, when I told Singaporean and Malay members of a Singapore-based Toastmasters Club that January 25th was Burns Night, celebrating Robbie, Burns, they asked, 'Who's that?' I replied, "The man who wrote the words of Auld Lang Syne, which is sung worldwide on New Year's Eve." In Singapore, New Year's eve is long gone and they are now busy with Chinese New Year, or the lunar year. The Singaporean's have a word, Kiasu, which means trying to get ahead of other people as well as the fear of missing out. Having missed out on the celebration of Burns Night, I made up for it next day by wearing the tartan shirt I had had waiting for a week, along with a tartan bag. I cut the Scottish flag off a row of bunting fla...