It was the first day of Chinese new year today. I wouldn't have known better if not for Facebook.
Arising from my 13 hour slumber at 6am, unable to sleep another wink, I browsed through Facebook on my iPhone, and it was a continuous stream of scenes from home and its most colourful holiday of the year. I guess the thing I miss most about home is family. I now have a family to call my own here, but it'll never be the same as the noisy lively and most importantly close-knit bunch I've known all my life. I rang them, and they were at my grandmother's... Tho strictly not celebrating CNY in a show of respect for a supposed year-long period of mourning.
Anyway it was actually life as usual for me, it being a Monday morning. Except that I had woken up unusually early. I even had time to make breakfast, do QT with David, iron clothes and as mentioned, speak to every member of the family at home, before I strolled into work 20 mins to 9.
Other achievements of the day include calling up my phone line provider to complain of a faulty line (sheesh I had bought a spare phone cable and a new phone just in case either was spoilt!), switching my broadband plan from £6.49 a month to £3.24 a month (woohoo!) and sitting at office till 10pm working on an urgent deal.
The calendar day was almost over by the time I got home at 10.15pm. But someone got it worse, only bursting through the door (with not quite as much energy as the word suggests) at 11pm.
Knackered, we are now ready to usher in the 2nd day of the lunar new year in our dreams before we hit the office again bright and early at 8am...
It might be a long and colourful year ahead, much like how we'd imagine a dragon to be!