Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Happy New Year!

Hey all! I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday season and so forth; I certainly did.

The day before New Year’s Eve, I had my little date with Jeri, the girl that I met while dancing. It went quite well; dinner then met up with some of my friends at the bars to chat for a while. Altogether it was quite wholesome, and I expect to see her again sometime soon (perhaps this afternoon even).

New Year’s celebration was quite fun. I spend the first half of the night with some co-workers. We ate dinner at a gorgeous restaurant, then hopped from bar to bar for a while before I split off to meet up with my friends to prepare for the countdown. We went to a bar called Black Sun where we had a very American-style new years celebration which involved more drinking, a nice loud countdown, and playing darts. It was quite fun, and I ended up staying out until 5:00 am.

Yesterday, therefore, was a recovery day. I woke up at about 2:00 pm, and met up with some friends for a TV series marathon. I brought House M.D., my buddy Ralph brought Prison Break, Kit brought Chappelle Show, and his girlfriend Fleur brought a New Zealand movie called Once Were Warriors. So from 3:00 or so until 1:00 am we vegged out on the couch, taking a brief break for dinner.

I know that I’ve been feeling like my Chinese has been coming along pretty slowly, but last night made me realize how much I’ve actually learned. The thing is that I’m usually hanging out with a bunch of people who have studied Chinese for 4 years +, so my Chinese is pretty mediocre compared to them, but yesterday I was the “Expert” at the dinner table and had to do all of the ordering. To make things more fun, the restaurant didn’t have an English language menu. No bother, we got all the food that we needed (I just wish that Chinese were a little more logical, for example: broccoli is literally translated as “Western blue flower,” as opposed to the more logical “Western green flower.” What’s up with that!? It led to a little confusion.).

Anywhoo, today I planned to be in the office working on a game for the upcoming trip to the US, but as it turns out, my conference call that was scheduled for today at 8pm got pushed back to Thursday night, so I have a free afternoon, which I will either spend with Jeri or watching Prison Break. Oh, I’ll also have to find a little time to collect some information for Mike and Barone’s upcoming visit this Friday!

Alrighty, I think I’ll leave off here. To all of you people on vacation, enjoy it because vacations are awesome! Also, don’t look too carefully for a blog post in the next several weeks. I’ll be busy entertaining from Friday to Wednesday when I leave for the US. In the US, I’ll be very busy, but on the bright side, many of you will be able to see me!

Happy New Year!