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A very blessed lunar new year to everyone who passes by here. (:

It's been a rather good break... Should be starting work soon though. Haha... First day of the lunar new year's spent at grandpa's place doing visitation... probably the last few times I'll be eligible for ang baos before I have to officially start giving them out instead. Ho ho...

Helped out in making meatballs, a dish that we'll have every chinese new year. You basically grab a handful of the mixed minced meat and throw it into the palm of your other hand a couple of times to make sure the meat firms up and that it shapes up into a ball. There was once I missed and the meat dropped onto the floor. T.T Hahaha... they turned out pretty well in the end.

Came back to rest a while; the extended family came over too to visit mom. A few of us went down to chinatown after that for a karaoke session at KSter. It might be due to fatigue, but it turned out to be a rather tiring session for me personally... but nonetheless still enjoyable... and definitely a respite. :P

What I enjoyed the most was definitely the opportunity to sleep in and wake up late. Haha... the highlight of 2008's first day of lunar new year turned out to be an online conversation that I had with one of my students though.

I got to know this boy not too long ago, probably last December or so as I did not get to teach his consortium when he was in secondary one. Don't exactly have much opportunities to interact with him still since technically I don't teach him... so interaction's rather sparse and mainly online.

There are those people whom you see and interact with every day (in a class, an office, a setting, etc) and yet they'll probably remain as mere acquaintances; there are those whom you only get to meet for a while and yet the relationship simply 'clicks'.

He belongs to the latter category; the depth of his reflections and the level of empathy he has for someone his age... not to say that it's rare, but it's definitely uncommon.

And I give thanks that He brings along such individuals in this journey at my workplace to spur me on. Come to think of it, He's brought so many and allowed me to reconnect with so many more this year... and I do look forward to an exciting year (two years at least) journeying with you guys (CSE or not), even though the starting's really tough for now. If you know you're one of those whom I'm referring to, leave a smiley at my tagboard yeah. ;)

Alright... time to work a bit. :)