the good thing about chinese new year is that we get to start over again. so we have like two chances to have a fresh start to the new year and 2005 till now was just like a trial run, no?

cny isn't really a big thing for me. i don't enjoy cny goodies apart from the oranges and cny treats are evil anyway. two pineapple tarts = 400 calories. give me the good old american chocolate chip cookies any day. so i'm severed from my ethnic roots of chinese culture. it's sad in a way, but sometimes i believe people shouldn't really behave a certain way just because racial tradition instructs it so. people are people are people. we are all just people.

how have i spent the first days of my new year? not doing much because we don't really make a big thing out of it and there's no one to go out with since all my other friends are much more into it and do visit people. my brothers don't have school tomorrow. it's upsetting. but i made that promise to myself and i will keep it. i'm going to school unless i fall sick with fever, which i think is quite unlikely although i am sick with flu at present.

so i guess for now it's back to catching up on my reading. am currently reading, surprise, surprise, 'an invisible heart' given to me by a cousin who loves economics [the subject which i dropped, you recall] in an attempt to get me to like economics more. i admit after getting halfway through the novel i've appreciated capitalism a lot more than how it was taught in njc - but it's not fair, this book is somewhat literature because after all it's written in a novel form. if we dumped our slomans [btw who wants to buy mine] and studied this for econs instead i would be happy - but that wouldn't happen because this is more lit than anything else i take it. it discounts all the ickiness of graphs and equations and what not that econs is truly about in the
'a' levels.

happy lunar new year to all. may this year be a prosperous one for you to grow and live in Jesus.

+ posted by M @ 6:31 PM