Today’s the first day of work after the long Chinese New Year break. Ah.. now I feel all charged up and refreshed!

Here’s a brief recap of what I’ve been doing the past week. On Wednesday evening (New Year’s eve), I had reunion dinner with Mom and her old friend’s family. We had steamboat and Yu Sheng, a popular Chinese New Year dish that’s some sort of raw fish salad. Tradition goes that we’re to toss the salad (literally) as high as possible to bring good luck and prosperity for the new year. After dinner, I watched Kung Fu Dunk with mom. It was a hilarious movie about a teenage orphan’s adventures in a school basketball team after getting kicked out of the martial arts school that he grew up in and we both enjoyed it very much.

Mom and I spent the first 2 days of Chinese New Year at home watching Korean Drama DVDs almost non-stop. The drama we were watching was Dalja’s Spring, a light-hearted look at a 33-year old career woman’s life as she searches for romance and falls in love for the first time.

On the third day (Saturday), we finally left the comforts of home to go shopping. Some departmental stores were starting to have post-CNY sales, and we both left the stores as satisfied customers. I took Mom to try out Fish & Co for the first time, and she loved it. We also went grocery shopping and then had steamboat (again) for supper.

We stayed home again on Sunday to (what else) watch Korean Drama DVDs. This time we watched Which Star Are You From, a touching story of a famous movie director who lost his beloved girlfriend in a traffic accident. After a hiatus of 3 years he is asked to produce a new movie by an old friend. In the process, he meets a village girl who bears striking resemblance to his dead girlfriend, and they fall in love with eachother. They then discover to their shock and horror that she is the long-lost sister of his girlfriend.

Many of my colleagues are still on leave today. Some of my Malaysian colleagues have gone back to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year with their families. At least half of the upper management is not around too. “No government day” as we call it.

I managed to catch the recording of CST#74, but the video and audio was rather choppy. We had a great time in the uStream chat, but I got cut-off before I managed to finish answering Mac’s question on the chewing gum ban in Singapore. Oh, my love-hate relationship with uStream!

Well, my project leader (who unfortunately isn’t on leave) has just dropped some work on my lap, so I better get going. See y’all next time!

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