Feel like it’s yesterday only when we all were in the Christmas and New Year mood and now Chinese New Year is around the corner already! Just 10 days away.

Can’t wait to be home as the last time I went back was post-chinese-new-year last year, which was on March. Missing the food so badly and of course family & friends. Haven’t meet my grandparents and dearest friends for quite some time, since last year March actually. Miss them 100x.

CNY is equal to spending season as well. Buying or baking cakes, cookies, family reunion dinner, red pocket, decoration, buy new kamik rain boots, new dress, blablabla. Almost the same like how western people celebrate Christmas I guess.

Anyway, aside from spending, CNY is also a clear-things-off season (for me). There is an old saying or rather belief: if you owe someone (stuffs, money, etc), please return it before Chinese New Year or else you’ll continue to owe people (financial problem or bad luck) throughout the year, something like that. I guess it gives exception to long term loan like house and car.

I always keep to the saying closely, although I know that it’s just a belief and no real statistic proof whatsoever. But it’s a good practice, can take it as a “cleaning season” once in a year. Now I’m trying to dig my memory of things that I owe people, hmm…

My boy and I were supposed to have a one day outstation trip (work related), but cancelled due to our own careless being. Went to bus station on time this morning but forgot to bring the tickets that we’ve bought yesterday night! Oh my.. The bus left without us by the time we went back with the tickets in hand. Ugh! Scheduling the trip to later date.

Wasted my effort of waking up super early around 6am after working super late a night before. Hey, having enough sleeping time (8 hours) is important to me, am not looking forward to use anti-wrinkle cream sooner than I expected. But never mind, there is always something well-planned for us.

Anyway, the past two weeks have been quite a hectic one for me. Deadline and deadline. Oh don’t mistaken it as complain or I hate my work. Loving my career max but even machine also can break down, what’s more this body and mind right?

So wanting to do online shopping to release the tension. And sort of reward myself for the hard work? *wink at my boy*

My 3 years old Acer Travelmate runs at 512MB. As it is getting older, I am having a hard time running Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Windows media player at the same time. If I open 2 programs together, it works very slow like an old granny at a marathon run. A four hours Photoshop work has become an eight hours work. I become grumpy and the unwelcome-wrinkles comes out.

It is a relief when I got my Dell Inspiron 530 a month ago. Although it is only Dual Core and the computer memory is just 1GB, but it is good enough to run Adobe software and listen to mp3 at the same time. Good performance of the computer resulting in good mood. Good mood means can produce better design work (and finish in a short time) and blog more. The end result is, more $ money $ comes in which means better life.