Black Friday

I woke up around 12 midday. Had my shower and went to the cafeteria (Paradise Palm) to grab breakfast/lunch. I really wanted to have a blueberry muffin but everything was finished, even the ones at the Starbucks section. So I only got a small cup of coffee, and picked up some coffee mate packets to go with my Goroka coffee in the room. Tutii arrived back from Palau so I guess I'll have to finish my Goroka coffee and return his coffee maker. I was really craving for a blueburry muffin or a pound cake to go with my coffee in the room so I went to the Campus Center and Manoa Gardens checking all the vending machines for a pound cake. Couldn't find any so I returned to Hale Manoa. The vending machine at HH also doesn't have any so I guess I'll just have to put up with my coffee for the moment and wait for dinner.

So what is the significance of Friday the 13th or the Black Friday?

A Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in English, German, Polish and Portuguese-speaking cultures around the globe. Similar superstitions exist in some other traditions. In Greece or Spain, for example, Tuesday the 13th takes the same role. In Russia, the unlucky day is Monday. The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia (a word that is derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Παρασκευή, δεκατρείς, and φοβία, meaning Friday, thirteen, and phobia respectively; alternate spellings include paraskevodekatriaphobia or paraskevidekatriaphobia) or friggatriskaidekaphobia, and is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a phobia (fear) of the number thirteen.