Leen Chor 2

the day after new year. woke to cousin Lisa's call, inviting me out to lunch. amazingly it was already midday..... ooops! I blame the warm weather - bit stuffy. possibly also the wine and cigar last night.

good to see lisa again, and she was in good spirits. she took me to an expat restaurant in soho - 'jaspas' on staunton street, fusion food. actually it wasn't so much fusion, more 'all sorts'. she had a goat's cheese salad, i had chicken fajitas. both were good. we chatted for a long time about family, jobs, relationships, china, and also whether we thought it was ok or not for her to ask out or date her clients/candidates. i reckoned it was all cool.

having decided that lisa's friends aren't all that much older than me, we're gonna see if i can get hooked up with one.

back home for dinner and packing for golf. the last of the fishballs, and doing our very best to finish off the cakes in the fridge - leen goh, mah tai goh, wu tou goh - delicious, but still Loads left in the fridge.

watched the new year fireworks happening in wanchai from the balcony. uncle philip wanted to watch them from auntie teresa's office in central, but auntie didn't fancy going out. the fireworks were really good though - very impressive, 26 minutes worth or something, and so auntie conceded that maybe they should try the office next year.

showed auntie some of my photos later in the evening, which was nice - many of them she hadn't seen, including photos of aaron and florence at kai keen's wedding, and some of mum's photos from paris and her trip to scotland. missed wei yee and yian online, which was a shame, but hope to catch them again some other time.

revived this blog thing, thinking it'll help wei yee and mum and others know what i'm up to, and they can write comments back to me. i hope also i can hook my various photos into it, to make more of an 'illustrated' journal.

off to 4 days of golf now. on my return,
tuesday - first interview with kpmg; try to confirm language and accomodation with isabella at HKU
wednesday - salsa with teresa?
thursday - james so? hung hung?
friday - brain test with mckinsey
saturday - dinner with andrew sheng at home
sunday - hopefully flying off to shanghai