Chinese New Year is just days away and I feel nothing. Not even any drive to get new clothes for the kids for the New Year. I feel some remorse but there is just a lot of stress from the workplace - not stress from the volume of work though it is a lot but stress from, well, people stuff. Who was it who said, the hardest part of management was the people? Oh well.
Still, we should get some decorations or traditional goodies. Ranch 99 has stocked on traditional goodies but nothing like what we get in Singapore. Nothing like NTUC Fairprice. Chinatown in San Francisco and Oakland should be better stocked but there is little incentive to go there. Hanging some deco's up may lift the mood a bit but the house is always so fxxxxing cold, we all end up just huddled in the room with the small portable heater on all day, staring at the goggle box or surfing. Except the restless teen who finds every opportunity to skip out or sneak her friends into her room where they "hang out" for hours, sometimes into the wee hours. Positively un-Asian because "nan nǚ soh soh bu qin."
But there is something to look forward to. Chinese New Year dinner with the usual suspects at Nik's place. Looking forward to it very much. Some socialization is good for the soul.
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