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Ushering in the year of the Horse


Happy Chinese New Year everyone!  Hope you had a great CNY so far!

Ours is a memorable one this year.  We spent the whole of Saturday steam-boating: we had two steamboat parties.  Lunch at TC and Cecilia's, and then dinner at Jixian and Rongxuan's.  We felt blessed to have friends around during this festive period.  And then on Sunday we finally completed our move!  So officially we have stopped shuffling between two properties.  

Understandably everything feels new and foreign right now.  It would take some time for sure to get used to it.  And we still need to get some bits and bobs here and there.  On Sunday we did probably the most important thing of all - changing the locks on our front door.  We didn't feel very safe using the existing locks, and so K managed to find a locksmith to come down.  We wanted to invite some friends over for some festive cheer in our new place but as it was so last minute with the locksmith coming and boxes everywhere, we thought it's best to postpone it.  Next on our priority list are the curtains.  I must admit I am a little paranoid knowing people across the road can look in our rooms directly and also the morning sun shining into the room especially on weekends.  And probably thick curtains could help shut out some of the cold.  This morning we took our first official long journey to work, and mind you this is coming from someone who hasn't taken the tube to work in the past 1.5 years.  I had enjoyed my fair share of a lie-in every morning and now it's time to denounce this little bonus.  The journey door to door for me took 50min.  I guess it's not that bad.  I just need to get used to squeezing with the morning rush hour crowd.  And getting used to the fact that during off peak hours the train frequency is only twice per hour.  This one I think would need the  biggest getting used to.  I mean, twice per hour...

Back to our Saturday.  We didn't really take photos of the steamboat lunch.  But we did take two for the sit down steamboat dinner at Jixian and Rongxuan's.  We got to know this super couple from CL, who has moved back to Singapore.  Apparently they were from the same batch in their junior college days and are my age.  And I say super couple because one is a lawyer and the other a doctor specialising in the eye.  We were chatting about our future dreams and Rongxuan said she would love to open a small practice in a small village and help all the people there.  Seriously big hearted girl.  Making the rest of us at the dining table feeling slightly ashamed.  Just slightly.  Professions aside, they are a really nice and friendly couple.  We were also introduced to Jixian's cousin Rachel that night, and Lawrence was there too.  Funnily I found out recently that Lawrence and I were from the same JC too, what a coincidence.

From left: Us, Rongxuan, Rachel and Jixian

with Lawrence in the middle, my fellow AJCian!

It was a great dinner, with the host couple serving konnyaku jelly and red bean soup for dessert too.  We were stuffed by the time dinner was finished.  And we didn't stay too late because the power couple (sadly) had to work the next day.  Now we look forward to hosting them at our new place in return.

Everyone we meet is so excited for us, and everyone wants to come round and visit us.  I think it's because of this that I am a little stressed wanting to complete the house a bit more before having friends over.  I guess I have to chill a bit with regards to this!

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