Chinese new year

Tomorrow is the first day of the Chinese new year. In this country, Chinese new year or in short, CNY means not just a two days break for everybody, but also, a time of sharing, meet up and gathering. For the Chinese, it is the time of the start of a new spring season, that's why it is also called the "spring festival".

Last year around the same time, things were much more expensive, but now, as the economy is in a pretty bad shape, things got cheaper. Chinese families would gather on the 30th night, or the day before the CNY, to eat a reunion dinner, so, everybody from the same family, if they are overseas, would fly back to have this dinner, usually steamboat or eat at restaurants.

Oh, my dear, do you miss someone now? 8-)

Volunteer for a day

Just yesterday (Saturday), I volunteered, with a friend, to help out with our parent company's fund raising event.

This is the first time I'm doing it, other than the occasional Sundays where I go the the grassroot centre to help out with teaching small kids to read and write. It's kinda of fun to do this, I was supposed to help out with the Water Dunking event which was supposed to run from 2-3pm, but, I was busy with another, the Jumbo sale. It just amazed me that old stuffs donated by the staff were so sell-able, $2 or $3 clothings, stuff toys, bags, souvenirs, etc, were selling like hotcakes!

Now, come back to the Dunking event, this time, the organisers got the F1's SingTel's Grid girls to sit on the platform, with a water tank below them, one at a time. Well, they all got wet for the price of people paying $50 or more! The CxO were also up there, all wet, but, at a higher price, of course.

Well, I think the event was really nice, but, there's no free meals, only bottled water and a T-shirt, lucky, some of the volunteers gave us some free coupons to buy food, how nice! Anyway, I also got some souvenir pins (my favourite!) from the old stuffs for sale. Ok, still worth it.

Happy New Year 2009!

Hey, happy new year 2009!

What's up for the new year? Well, thinking big for this year, looking at further studying, probably overseas. The Australian dollar has been nose diving recently, almost 1-to-1, may be a good time to plan a trip or study there.

IT is getting too tough and too fast changing for me, need to re-charge myself, good to learn some new knowledge. I have email boss to ask him can take up PMP course, but, till now still no respond. I think most probably chance is slim, because there seems to be some cost cutting and controlling going on due to the economic crisis. Well, will see how, maybe is a good time to go overseas for studying by taking advantage of the money exchange rate.